News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina------United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Gregory S. Boone, age 47, of Lancaster, South Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for willful failure to pay over taxes, in violation of Title 26, United States Code Section 7202.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeks public input on a draft travel management plan and environmental assessment for 331,656 acres of public lands managed by the Little Snake Field Office in northwest Colorado. This environmental assessment looks at the area known as Travel Management Area 1, which includes Hiawatha, Vermillion Basin, Sand Wash and Bears Ears near Craig.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: A new shower house will be installed in the Alley Spring Campground the week of July 17. In order to ensure visitor and staff safety while heavy equipment and large trucks are on site for installation, most of the campground will be closed temporarily beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Monday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Calvin R. Patrick, 35, of Mount Morris, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 295 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
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 DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM Nevada Program staff and contractors prove that personal health and fitness - through healthy eating, marathons, triathlons, martial arts, pickleball, and other activities - are important for a successful workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI- A federal grand jury has charged Brian D. Jones, 38, of Vevay, Indiana with defrauding investors in his livestock brokerage business.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding reports of “patient brokers" who are serving as an intermediary and profiting from recruiting patients seeking treatment for addiction. The letter, highlighting a need...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced legislation that seeks to bring greater investment in the country’s aging drinking water infrastructure as well as facilitate compliance for our drinking water delivery systems. H.R.___, the Drinking Water System Improvement Act passed #SubEnvironment by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Social Security’s Solvency Challenge: Status of the Social Security Trust Funds" on Friday, July 14, at 10:00 AM in room 2020 of the Rayburn...
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 the Eastern...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Senate Republicans released an updated draft of the Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy L. Lara, 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on federal fraud and theft or mail charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Environment Subcommittee markup of the, “Drinking Water System Improvement Act:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Karen Hill - the former Insys Therapeutics Regional Manager for the southeastern United States - has pled guilty to conspiring to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for their prescribing the instant-release fentanyl drug Subsys, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) Bret Hamilton and Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced legislation that seeks to bring greater investment in the country’s aging drinking water infrastructure as well as facilitate compliance for our drinking water delivery systems. H.R.___, the Drinking Water System Improvement Act passed #SubEnvironment by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On July 11, 2017, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Eric Myles Gordon, age 49, of Baltimore County, Maryland, to 36 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Gordon was also ordered to pay restitution of $545,875. On April 7, 2017, a jury convicted Gordon of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and falsification of records in bankruptcy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Christopher Owens, a physician licensed to practice in California, was indicted on Tuesday with unlawfully prescribing oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The indictment alleges that between September 2012 and June...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: A licensed physician in Miami pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a multi-faceted $4.8 million health care fraud scheme that ran from April 2011 to February 2017, involving the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and the illegal prescribing of Schedule II (e.g., oxycodone and hydrocodone) and Schedule IV (e.g., alprazolam) controlled substances.
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.
