News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 19,720,849 visitors to ten National Parks of New York Harbor (NPNH) sites in 2016 spent $656,984,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 8,120 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $838,133,200.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Quest Diagnostics Inc. has agreed to pay $6 million to resolve a lawsuit by the United States alleging that Berkeley HeartLab Inc., of Alameda, California, violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians and patients to induce the use of Berkeley for blood testing services...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Taos, N.M. - Following the completion of an environmental assessment (EA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office has made a decision to grant a right-of-way (ROW) to New Mexico Gas Company to relocate approximately 7 miles of the Taos Mainline within the Rio Grande gorge, primarily between the communities of Rinconada and Pilar along State Highway 68. The project is anticipated to begin in August 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: The creator and lead administrator of Playpen, a highly sophisticated website dedicated to the sexual abuse of children which operated on the Tor anonymity network, was sentenced today for his role in this global child exploitation enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - On Sunday, April 30, Fire Island National Seashore honored volunteer Mike Trotta, recipient of the prestigious 2016 George and Helen Hartzog for Outstanding Enduring Volunteer Service. Since 2003, Mr. Trotta has contributed thousands of hours of his time to help enhance Seashore operations and programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for 2016 is Presented to Jerome Bowles.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nicholas Wosinski, 28, Whitewater, Wis., was sentenced Friday, April 28, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 42 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of a Jefferson, Wis. business.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City area chiropractor has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle allegations his offices submitted false claims to Medicare for treating patients with peripheral neuropathy, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, on Friday, April 28, 2017, Bobby Dewayne Thompson, II, 43, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 110 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, criticized President Trump’s appointment of Teresa Manning, an anti-abortion activist, to the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a position that oversees the Title X family planning program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced in federal court for conspiring to import methamphetamine from California to Alaska. Today, U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sentenced Alfa Souvandara, 42, of Anchorage, to serve 10 years in prison, following his guilty plea on Feb. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man involved in heroin trafficking in 2015 and 2016 in the Huntington area was sentenced today to two years and three months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmy Cheatham, also known as “Shoe," 24, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Due to longer days and warming temperatures, Denali National Park and Preserve Management has determined that there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve. Those park lands that were open for snowmobile use are now closed for the season. Snow cover in the area is broken up with large areas of exposed vegetation, and the remaining areas of snow are shallow.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury last week indicted a Morris woman for fraudulently claiming nearly $168,000 in Social Security widow’s benefits on the death of a husband she killed, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Margaret Moore-Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Alleged Criminal Activity Occurred in Herkimer County, New York.
