News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man was convicted by a jury on Wednesday of conspiring with others to burn down a Henderson popcorn business and threatening to injure the business owners, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115 doctors...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - An immigration fugitive from El Salvador wanted for aggravated homicide was deported Thursday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Laredo, Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor is replacing 60-year-old power distribution equipment to ensure sustained power for key nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel storage facilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said following today’s recently concluded hearing on Native American tribal recognition and land management policy that his Republican colleagues should repudiate the assertions of Don Mitchell - a Republican-invited witness - that the purpose...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The case involved a cluster of overdoses, in Montgomery County, caused by carfentanil.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: This year’s bloom is expected to measure 7.5 on the severity index, but could range between six and 9.5. An index above five indicates a potentially harmful bloom. The severity index is based on a bloom’s biomass - the amount of its harmful algae - over a sustained period. The largest blooms, 2011 and 2015, were 10 and 10.5, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Houston man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine after the drug was found in his car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Robert N. Hatfield, who rents, sells, and finances homes in Wilkes County, North Carolina. The lawsuit alleges that Hatfield sexually harassed actual and prospective female residents and borrowers in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Rogers and our full committee chairman, Mr. Frelingyhusen. I appreciate your efforts to include many of my and my colleagues’ priorities in the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Harold Duane Friday, 20, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on July 11, 2017, on three counts of abusive sexual contact. Friday was arrested in Fort Washakie, Wyoming. He received 144 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $300.00 special assessment and $952.36 in restitution. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today the unsealing of two federal grand jury indictments charging four individuals with health care fraud and related offenses. The cases were unsealed as part of the 2017 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, during which federal, state, and local law enforcement partners announced charges of more than 400 defendants across 41 different federal judicial districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Floyd Jay Mann, Jr., 55, of Puyallup, Washington, pleaded guilty in Anchorage yesterday to all counts charged against him, to include 11 counts of wire fraud and 8 counts of money laundering, regarding a scheme to defraud Alaskans out of approximately $2.7 million. His wife, Cheryl Mann, 52, also of Puyallup, was convicted in Seattle on Friday, July 7, 2017, of one count of social security fraud.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer today introduced a House version of the Russia-Iran sanctions bill (H.R. 3203) that passed 98-2 in the Senate last month. Identical to the original Senate-passed bill, this legislation resolves procedural concerns that have delayed House action on the tough sanctions package.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL DAVID SORINA, JR., age 38, resident of Slidell, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DONALD EALY, a/k/a “Deebo," age 38, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor improved the process for its employees to obtain EM operator qualifications, avoiding estimated costs of more than $5.6 million by fiscal 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Daniel Roger Alo, 46, a Georgia penal resident, was sentenced earlier this week by U. S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 29 years in federal prison for his role in running a drug trafficking ring from a Georgia prison cell that operated throughout the Southeast.
