News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Michael Hoffner, Sr., 52, of Voorhees, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg also imposed a three year term of supervised release and ordered the defendant to pay $87,060 in restitution and to forfeit $82,643 in proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Matthew Elliott Shashy, 29, of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced today to 4 years of probation for discharging a firearm outside of Maxwell Air Force Base, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stanislav Nazarov, 46, a dual citizen of Israel and Russia, pled guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering stemming from his role in an international scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: 21st Century Oncology to Pay $26 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JARED McBRIARTY, 32, of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A doctor who operated a walk-in clinic in Decatur, Ill., Sukhwinder Multani, has been ordered to serve 14 months in federal prison for illegal distribution of hydrocodone, a controlled substance. In addition, Multani, 43, of the 3700 block of N. Ashley Court, was prohibited from working...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Akayed Ullah Charged With Terrorism and Explosives Charges in Connection With the Detonation of a Bomb in New York City.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dustcom Limited Inc. for failing to protect its employees from trench collapse hazards. The Garden City construction company faces proposed penalties of $130,552.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Andries Snyman, 43, who is from South Africa and working in Isabel, South Dakota, was convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet following a three-day federal jury trial held in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The guilty verdict was returned on December 8, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Fifth Beach Reopens at Virgin Islands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old former employee of BP Corporation North America Inc. has been charged with five counts of wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: On December 8, 2017, Jose Pablo Ortiz-Santizo, 32, of Miami, was sentenced to 151 months (12.5 years) imprisonment for trafficking “crystal" methamphetamine, which is a nearly pure form of the drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Multiple mobile imaging companies, along with their owners Dennis Whitsell and Jonathan Graham Lane, will pay the United States $300,000 after improperly billing Medicare for transportation charges related to portable x-ray services, announced Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston. One of the companies also entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the United States to resolve swapping allegations, which implicated the Anti-Kickback Statute.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing to examine the permitting processes for energy and resource infrastructure projects at the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The hearing focused on permitting challenges and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, transparency, and predictability of permit reviews.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York working jointly with the FBI and Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD), six members and associates of the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - An Elko, Nevada cardiologist was arrested today on 39-charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM’s Nevada Program has awarded its environmental characterization and remediation contractor for fiscal year (FY) 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, introduced the Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act (RIP MSP Act) on Tuesday - an effort to terminate Obamacare’s failing Multi-State Plan program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bakersfield Police Department, the United States Attorney’s Office, the California Department of Justice, the California Highway Patrol, and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced the result of a multi-agency operation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo denied former Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro’s latest appeal regarding his 2011 conviction on multiple public corruption charges.
