News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: “While we are disappointed by the Second Circuit’s decision, we respect it, and look forward to retrying the case. Although finding that the Supreme Court’s McDonnell decision issued after Silver’s conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence...
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
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: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raytown, Mo., man who worked or volunteered at two area churches was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $86,000 from those parishes.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Hancock, MD - As Aaron Siskind once said “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever….It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Steve Dean, photographer extraordinaire for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, will be hosting a photography talk and walk on July 29th from 10 am -12 pm. The program will begin at the Bowles House Visitor Center in Hancock, Maryland.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The 2018 Financial Services & General Government Appropriations bill embodies the worst of the policy priorities of the Republican majority. It would repeal Dodd-Frank consumer financial protections, undermine the Affordable Care Act, restrict women’s access to legal health services, meddle in the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - Ten people have been indicted for their involvement in a heroin distribution ring operating in the Plattsburgh area. The announcement was made by Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA); Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; and Clinton County Sheriff David Favro.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former high-ranking employee of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corp. (NWCDC) was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for accepting $956,948 in kickback payments for his and the former executive director’s assistance in awarding work to contractors, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that, following a week-long trial, a federal jury has convicted Jose Escalera, a/k/a Tank, 41, of Buffalo, NY, and Giovanni Cotto, a/k/a Monte, 36, of Springfield, Massachusetts, of retaliating against a witness. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Podiatrist Perrin D. Edwards, age 64, of Kinderhook, New York, pled guilty on Tuesday to health care fraud for illegally charging Medicare and private insurance companies for services that he never provided. Edwards has also paid $410,000 to the United States to resolve his civil liability for his submission of false claims for payment to the Medicare program.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: JULY 13, 2017 - Today the U.S. Census Bureau released detailed statistics of social, economic, housing and demographic characteristics for hundreds of race, tribal, Hispanic origin and ancestry populations. These tables from the 2011-2015 American Community Survey contain the most detail for these populations and are available at numerous geographic levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two Atlantic County, New Jersey, men were each given multi-year prison sentences for their participation in a nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area.
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: NEWARK, N.J. - A former high-ranking employee of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corp. (NWCDC) was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for accepting $956,948 in kickback payments for his and the former executive director’s assistance in awarding work to contractors, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
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 DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Twenty years ago this month, the Savannah River Site (SRS) closed a high-level waste tank - a first in the nation - setting the stage for future tank closures across the EM complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Deborah Branch, Bryan Harr, Melissa Harr Will All Serve Time in Federal Prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - People gathered for an EM-hosted technical interchange meeting late last month on industrial applications for human-wearable and attachable robotic devices. Participants identified initiatives by federal agencies to enable the devices for industry use, determined opportunities to transfer...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, July 13, 2017, to consider the nomination of Kevin K. McAleenan to serve as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The hearing will take place at 10:15 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Several Chicago-area medical professionals, including two licensed physicians, are facing federal criminal charges as part of the largest health care fraud enforcement action in Department of Justice history, federal authorities announced today.
