News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER SIMMS, age 31, of New Orleans, pled guilty last week to a nine-count superseding Bill of Information for bank robbery and armed robbery, and a one-count Indictment for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Arrests Part of Joint State and Federal Effort to Prosecute Public Assistance Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Wendy Collins, age 46, of Woodbine, Maryland, to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud, in connection with a scheme in which she stole more than $4.5 million from her employer. Judge Garbis also ordered Collins to pay forfeiture and restitution in the amount of $4,273,749.83.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways and Current River State Park will be offering free paddling clinics on June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and August 4. Instruction will begin at 9:30 a.m.with a "dry land basics" session and paddle stroke instruction on the lower lake at Current River State Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to use false information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Orthopedic AND Sports Medicine Center-Norman, P.C., and its physician-owners, Dr. Mark Moses, Dr. David Bobb, Dr. William Harris, Dr. Vytautus Ringus, Dr. Steven Schultz, and Dr. Brad Vogel (collectively "OSC") have paid $1,537,796 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and TRICARE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Arrests Part of Joint State and Federal Effort to Prosecute Public Assistance Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Morristown, NJ - The National Park Service at Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) is proud to partner with Morris County to offer Revolutionary Times, three days of patriotic July activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four companies and one executive have agreed to pay more than $13.4 million, including interest, to resolve allegations that they billed Medicare for higher and more expensive levels of cardiac monitoring services than had been ordered by doctors, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Juan Alexis Diaz Pena, 31, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone and unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Bruce Kevin Hawkins, 52, of Desoto, Texas, appeared in federal court on June 20, 2017 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Topeka man admitted Monday that he took part in a robbery while he was wearing a monitoring device, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A pain clinic owner, an office manager who was also the wife of the owner, and two doctors have been sentenced for illegally prescribing painkillers to known addicts and drug dealers at three pain clinics in metropolitan Atlanta. Godfrey and Bona Ilonzo, as well as Dr. Nevorn Askari and Dr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Outbreak was the largest public health crisis ever caused by a pharmaceutical product.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the former controller for a Birmingham-based fitness center franchise and a subsequent retail store to 1½ years in prison for defrauding the companies out of more than $100,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 35-year-old San Antonio man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Carlos Pena pleaded guilty May 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Ray Williamson has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for a string of six armed bank robberies that began on February 4, 2016, and continued until September 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: Contact: Shadawn Reddick-Smith. (202) 225-6906. -------------------------------. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Subcommittee on Immigration Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) today released the following joint statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would ...
