News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Dallas-Based Physician-Owned Hospital to Pay $7.5 Million to Settle Allegations of Paying Kickbacks to Physicians in Exchange for Surgical Referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that NAHUM VERDE-ORTIZ, age 39, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal use of a Social Security number, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office at 1 p.m., Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, will offer to the public through a competitive sale three parcels of public land totaling 165.92 acres located adjacent to Hiko and Alamo, in Lincoln County, Nev. The BLM will conduct the oral auction at the Caliente Railroad Depot, 100 Depot Avenue, in Caliente. Bidding on the sale parcels will begin at appraised fair market value.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Charles J. Gartland, D.O., age 59, of Cochranville, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Nov. 29, 2017, by a federal grand jury on health care fraud and opioid diversion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A South Jersey man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers of $800,000 by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and N.J. Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced six North Carolina men this week for engaging in illegal dog fighting and selling narcotics in the Onslow County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: On Nov. 28, 2017, Oreste Abreu, 50, of Hialeah, was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment, and Daniel Lezcano-Morejon, 39, of Hialeah, to 46 months imprisonment, for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute the opioid hydromorphone.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Washington -Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement regarding the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) export forecast published today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad has announced that yesterday, Broderick A. Moore (age 25) was sentenced to 16 years in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for his involvement in an armed carjacking. In July 2017, a federal jury found Mr. Moore guilty of carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: November 1 - Nov. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that William Danzeisen (60, Ponte Vedra Beach), a licensed podiatrist, and Sachin Brahmbhatt (37, Jacksonville), an unlicensed podiatrist, have pleaded guilty to theft of government property. Each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. The sentencing hearings have been set for Jan. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced Brian David Haney, 38-year-old partial owner of Vidor Pharmacy and Kevin Michael Gray, 45-year-old operator of Family Pharmacy, Inc., in the Houston area, each to 28 months in federal prison for bribery and tax violations in connection with a health care fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA - Yancy Lee McCrea, 31 of Missoula, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Dana L. Christensen handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Chicago man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An Orlando, Florida resident pleaded guilty today for his role in a telemarketing scheme to defraud more than 1,000 victims, many of them elderly, of more than $3.3 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chester man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A 42-year old Liberian man was taken into custody on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Philadelphia. In October, he was released from the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF) with an active ICE detainer in place.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GREGORY DENSON, age 54, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to an eight-count Superseding Bill of Information charging him with murder of a federal witness, Hobbs Act conspiracy, multiple Hobbs Act robberies, and obstruction of official proceedings.
