News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Wilbert James Veasey, Jr., 65, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas on a health care fraud conspiracy conviction, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesus Parra, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 35-year-old former Central Texas Detention Facility-G.E.O. prison guard Barbara Jean Goodwin was sentenced to federal prison after admitting to having sexual relations with an inmate, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; United States Marshal David Sligh; and, Christopher Combs, FBI Special Agent in Charge, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Misr Sons Development S.A.E. Agrees to Pay $1.1 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, and the University of Alabama’s School of Social Work will present a conference June 23 to address issues of military veterans who either have been incarcerated or faced diversionary courts, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 34-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: HELENA - Elizabeth Jones Powell, 52, of East Helena, Montana, was sentenced today to five years imprisonment and three years supervised release for health care fraud and tax evasion. She was also ordered to pay $420,891.08 to four insurers and $43,514 to the Internal Revenue Service. U.S. District Court Judge Sam E. Haddon presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Acting United States Attorney William Weinreb announced today that his office has entered into a settlement agreement with the Town of Wales to ensure the accessibility of Town Hall and the Senior Center under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a bill, the SPIKE Act, to rein in the alarming trend of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the prices of their drugs each year. The bill would require companies to explain the reasons for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A local man has been ordered to federal prison for illegally possessing firearms in connection with a narcotics trafficking operation he ran out of his Mission home, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jose Paco Villegas, 48, pleaded guilty March 31, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, U.S Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health Committee, asked Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) at a Committee hearing if he would agree to hold a hearing on the Trumpcare bill that Republicans are writing in secret and planning to jam through the Senate without...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard J. Hall, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a bank robbery charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Nashua, NH man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding investors in a purported water resource company and laundering money obtained through various online fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Kenneth J. Lee, 54, of Glen Carbon in Madison County, Illinois, was sentenced on June 9, 2017 based upon his May 3, 2016, plea of guilty to a six-count information charging conspiracy to defraud, criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Rhine Drug Company and Andrew “Carter" Clements, Jr. agreed to pay a total of $2.175 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act. This settlement is the largest False Claims Act recovery with a pharmacy or pharmacist and largest recovery of civil penalties under the Controlled Substances Act in the history of the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Julie W. Kronhaus (52, Winter Park) to 10 years in federal prison for wire and bank fraud. In addition, she was ordered to pay over $2.7 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration will be assessing new checkpoint screening technology at a TSA Pre✓® lane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and one at Denver International Airport starting this week. TSA is conducting a proof of concept demonstration to evaluate...
