News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: The former CEO of garbage hauler Rizzo Environmental Services (RES), Charles B. “Chuck" Rizzo, 46, of Bloomfield Hills, was indicted today on five counts of bribery and three counts of conspiracy to commit bribery, in connection with garbage contracts in Clinton, Macomb, and Chesterfield townships, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Visit Salt Pond Visitor Center on June 17, 2017 to participate in a celebration of Wampanoag culture and traditions. Meet artists from the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities as they demonstrate and discuss refined traditional skills from their Eastern Woodland culture that have been carried down...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeny Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that JASON NISSEN was arrested and charged in Manhattan federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BURLINGTON, VT - One of the nation’s largest vendors of electronic health records (EHR) software, eClinicalWorks (ECW), and certain of its employees will pay a total of $155 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that ECW misrepresented the capabilities of its software, the Justice Department...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - On June 1, the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Mt. Charleston Fire Prevention District, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service are implementing fire restrictions in Southern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant, a Former U.S. Air Force Mechanic, Attempted to Travel to Syria to Join ISIS and Destroyed Electronic Storage Devices Containing Evidence of the Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James H. Carter, 31, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute over 40 grams of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MONICA SYLVEST, age 52, of Marrero, pled guilty today to a Bill of Information charging her with health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Melvin Hutchieson, 29, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Elizabeth J. Schreiber, 37, of Scio, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and distribute, a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2017
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - The number of passengers to fly this summer season is expected to be the highest in years, with more than 2.2 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Worked as a “Fixer" on Behalf of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group and its Business Partner to Obtain Rights to Oil and Mineral Concessions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man and woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a more than $2 million conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Chad Allen Lawson, 34, of Vernon, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 144 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) has awarded Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the Hanford Site services contractor, 91 percent of its available fee for fiscal year 2016, according to a recently release award fee determination scorecard.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The BLM is seeking public input for updating its Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing effects of winter competitive events and commercial recreational uses of BLM-managed public lands and facilities along the Iditarod National Historic Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A local pimp who recruited a woman through a social media website and advertised her services as a prostitute in an online publication has pleaded guilty to a federal sex trafficking charge.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) have begun removing contaminated soil along the steep south-facing slopes of Los Alamos Canyon adjacent to the Los Alamos Townsite.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Electronic Health Records Vendor to Pay $155 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Gabonese-French Dual Citizen Sentenced to 24 Months Imprisonment for Bribing African Officials.
