News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with making unauthorized withdrawals from ATMs at three banks in Lynn using “cloned" debit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Investigators Establish Link Between AK-47 Bandit Robbery Series and Man Who Allegedly Shot at a Kansas State Trooper.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: TO: Health Reporters. FROM: Ways & Means and Energy & Commerce Committees Democrats. MEMO: Highlights of CBO Report on Senate Trumpcare Bill. DATE: June 27, 2017. The facts are unchanged. The Senate Republican Plan remains a bad deal for consumers. It penalizes older Americans, those with pre-existing...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is requesting public comment on increasing both entrance fees and camping fees beginning Jan. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center are among four persons charged in a bribery scheme to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alberto Rosado-Leon, 36, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Boaters and anglers who recreate on the waters of Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway are reminded to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, a federal jury convicted two former Crystal City, TX, officials for their roles in a bribery and kickback scheme which decimated city coffers announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who was caught with heroin in 2016 was sentenced today to two and a half years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Ashley Dawn Smith, 24, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: The last load of logs was hauled through the McFee Tunnel on the Spruce Railroad Trail (SRRT) and will be used for a radically different purpose than the intention of the historic Spruce Railroad. A side-by-side comparison of the recent and historic photographs of the McFee Tunnel offers an opportunity to pause and reflect; to look back on the ride along the track of time and forward down the line ahead.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Lawrence Giggetts, age 37, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 58 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Domingo Contreras Flores, age 34, and a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to time served (about 69 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (LAMR) is hosting the second annual “Music and Fireworks At The Lake" event Monday, July 3, 2017. Festivities for this free event will begin at the Fritch Fortress Amphitheater with the county band “Raizin Kane" from 7:30pm - 9:30pm then the fireworks will commence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Rock Hall, Maryland, man was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for stealing at least 40 pieces of art and bringing them to New Jersey to sell them, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs, Michelle Milliner, (407) 384-5227 WASHINGTON -- First responders of all disciplines will now be able to train together for active shooter and other critical incidents thanks to a new virtual ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court today has allowed the Department of Homeland Security to largely implement the President's Executive Order and take rational and necessary steps to protect our nation from persons looking to enter ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: AMI Monitoring Inc. aka Spectocor, its owner, Joseph Bogdan, Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, and Medicalgorithmics SA, the current majority owner of Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for higher and more expensive ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today issued the following statement after the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to review the lower courts’ decisions on the President’s executive order: “I am pleased that the Supreme Court has decided to hear this case and the Department of Justice looks forward to arguing on behalf of the President and his constitutional duty to protect the national security of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Colorado, on behalf of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Denver, Colorado, against PDC Energy, Inc. (PDC). The complaint alleges violations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: An Orlando medical doctor and an infusion clinic owner were sentenced to 64 months in prison and two years supervised release, and 90 months and two years supervised release, respectively, today for their roles in a $13.7 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that involved submitting claims for expensive infusion-therapy drugs that were never purchased, never provided and not medically necessary.
