News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Home Health Agency Administrator Pleads Guilty in $7.8 Million Medicaid Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley woman who pleaded guilty to three felony charges stemming from a scheme in which she submitted fraudulent bills and illegally collected approximately $1 million from HBO was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the attempted sex trafficking of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-On Jan. 11, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the designation of 24 new National Historic Landmarks, to include the Painted Desert Community Complex located at the northern end of Petrified Forest National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service today published final regulations in the Federal Register which allow federal subsistence users in Alaska to collect and use non-edible animal parts and plants for the making and selling of handicrafts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Greek Shipping Companies Sentenced to Pay $2.7 Million for Ocean Pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SRCTec will pay $2,127,221.15 in cash and provide $4,256,586.15 in-kind equipment at no charge to the Army. Company has separately agreed to perform a remediation of affected parts at its own expense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of EUGENE RYAN BOOS, 44, to 195 months in prison after pleading guilty on Aug. 15, 2016, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. BOOS was sentenced before Senior U.S. District Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexico, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: An elected Trustee of New Haven, Michigan was charged today in a criminal complaint with demanding and taking a bribe in exchange for his official acts in connection with a municipal contract, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced. In addition, a former Trustee of New Haven was charged in a criminal information with accepting multiple bribes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: GETTYSBURG, PA - Gettysburg National Military Park’s Artists-in-Residence for January/February will be Nicholas Collier, a U.S. Military veteran who will pursue photography, sculpture, and film-making during his month-long residency on the Gettysburg battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CRISTIAN CESRE-PAZ, age 31, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) & (b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Chambersburg, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Topeka man with bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Spokane, WA - Today, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CCT) and the United States of America, acting through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and on behalf of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS), announced a voluntary settlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Yarbrough attempted to steal more than $500,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced the full Democratic rosters for the six subcommittees in the 115th Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy Communities Alliance, in cooperation with EM and the Energy Facility Contractors Group, is set to hold the third National Cleanup Workshop on Sept. 13-14, 2017, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Va.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation for certain Fiat Chrysler pickups and SUVs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court to 5 years of probation, to include eightmonths of home detention, 250 hours community service and fined $50,000 on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
