News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Medstar Ambulance to Pay $12.7 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Involving Medically Unnecessary Transport Services and Inflated Claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer, and Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tyronzo Alexander Walker, age 41, of Greenville, was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court by United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Charleston, to a term of 57 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from Chicago has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for illegally possessing and trafficking two dozen handguns, most of which had been stolen from a shipment of firearms at a railyard on the South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC ORTIZ, also known as “Nice," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Roydel Nicholson, 64, of Rochester, NY, was convicted following a jury trial of mail fraud and international money laundering for his role as a money-mule in the Jamaican lottery scam, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to 87 months in prison. The defendant will also be required to pay restitution in the amount of $145,794.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Sara Nicole Hogsett, 26, plead guilty to Tampering with Consumer Products, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Court Judge James H. Payne will sentence Hogsett on April 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Florida man was sentenced Thursday to 121 months in prison for sexually assaulting a female officer stationed at the Fort Polk Military Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Takata Corporation Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $1 Billion in Criminal Penalties for Airbag Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against former School Resource Officer (SRO) Benjamin Fields for the physical force used in handling a student at Spring Valley High School on Oct. 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: More than $1.6 Million in Fraud Identified and Prosecuted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Rowy De Jesus Vasquez (26, Altamonte Springs) to 30 years in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking a minor. The Court also ordered him to pay $23,040 in restitution to his victim, and to register as sex offender. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 20, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) together with off-highway vehicle (OHV) advocates and a number of conservation groups today filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City to settle a longstanding legal challenge to land use and travel management plans on approximately 10 million BLM-administered acres in Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Julio Perez-Torres, 26, of Rome, New York, pleaded guilty today to charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced that Cruz Gonzalez, of Shelby, Michigan, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $722,149 to the Department of Agriculture by U.S. District Court Judge Gordon J. Quist. Her daughter, Fabiola Garcia, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A previously deported convicted felon and his roommate were sentenced this week following their guilty pleas last year related to the April 2016 burglary of a Federal Firearms Licensee in Arlington, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Arthur Leyon Penn, 39, of Monroeville, Alabama, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade to 10 months imprisonment for tampering with a witness in his tax fraud case in U.S. District...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today announced the selection of Reinvestment Fund to serve as the National Fund Manager for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI). As the National Fund Manager, Reinvestment Fund will raise capital, provide financial and technical assistance to regional, state and local partnerships, and help fund projects to improve access to fresh, healthy foods in underserved rural areas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: National Park Service compendiums for Alaska will be open for public comment from Jan. 15, 2017 through Feb. 15, 2017. A compendium - one for each NPS area in Alaska - is a compilation of all designations, closures and restrictions adopted under the discretionary authority within the regulations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Jan. 13, 2017, John Allen Morris, Jr., 51, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, U.S. District Judge, to serve 36 months in federal prison. Morris was also ordered to pay over $1.2 million in restitution to identified victims of his offenses.
