News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Gary L. Marder, D.O., a physician residing in Palm Beach County and the owner and operator of the Allergy, Dermatology & Skin Cancer Centers in Port St. Lucie and Okeechobee, and the United States of America have stipulated to a consent final judgment of over $18 million to settle False Claims Act allegations...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service has selected MaryEllen “Mel" Whitenack as the Fire Management Officer at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Ms. Whitenack was selected from a national pool of applicants and stood out as an exceptional candidate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Bruceton Mills, West Virginia woman has been indicted for embezzling $87,529 from West Virginia University, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - An alleged cyber spammer has been indicted on federal fraud charges for sending well over a million spam emails and damaging several computer networks.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A recent report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to rely on inaccurate, incomplete, and untimely Medicaid data. Released yesterday, the report outlines how such issues limit the agency’s ability to ensure that federal payments to states are proper and that Medicaid beneficiaries have access to services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man who filed tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that led to nearly $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds being issued has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Trees are aging gracefully thanks to National Park Service (NPS) protection. At over 125 years old, Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C., has a significant number of very large trees-mature trees that have been protected from logging or disturbance because they are in a national park. These...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former Huntsville physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, to 15 years in prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is pleased to announce the waiver of entrance fees to Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain, on Monday,.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) offered three solutions to repair the nation’s ports, airports, roads, bridges and transit without adding to the deficit.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education in a tie vote of 50-50, broken by Vice President Mike Pence. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led Senate Democrats in a 24-hour...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ross Tardif, 30, of Minot, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 7½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine, and possession a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. He pled guilty on June 29, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a letter to President Donald Trump, members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Committee on Natural Resources blasted the Trump Administration’s approval of a final easement to build the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and their failure to undertake meaningful consultation with Native American tribes.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The Bighorn Pass Trail Bridge over the Gallatin River is available for use. The bridge is roughly a half mile from the Bighorn Pass Trailhead, near US-191, in the Northwestern section of the park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) has completed the planning process for the rehabilitation of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The NPS will next design and implement the rehabilitation of this important element of the regional transportation network and the monumental core of Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Liberian national was arrested Jan. 10, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice following an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and proponents of the Sutey Ranch Land Exchange will sign the final documents completing the exchange of lands in Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties on Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Suit Alleging that Lender and Purported Charity Concealed Loan Defaults from Federal Housing Administration Results in $1.25 Million Settlement.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: The Pu‘u Pua‘i overlook is temporarily closed to protect breeding nēnē (endangered Hawaiian geese) in the area.
