News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Media, Pennsylvania, man today admitted defrauding TRICARE - a health insurance program for members of the military and their families - by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Six Florida residents have been charged in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - On Sept. 29, members of the Battle Mountain community and Tomera Ranches worked with Bureau of Land Management staff from the Mount Lewis Field Office to complete this year’s National Public Lands Day volunteer project. The event took place at Ferris Creek, located on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Alleged Serial Bank Robber Arrested. Kevin Brumskill, 29, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody on Oct. 2, 2017, by members of the FBI/PPD Violent Crimes Task Force. Brumskill is charged by federal criminal complaint with the Oct. 2, 2017, robbery of the ParkeBank branch located at 1610 Spruce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Three defendants associated with a Miami street gang “Boss Life" operating in Miami-Dade County, Florida were sentenced by United States District Judge Federico A. Moreno for their roles in the distribution of firearms and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Three defendants associated with a Miami street gang “Boss Life" operating in Miami-Dade County, Florida were sentenced by United States District Judge Federico A. Moreno for their roles in the distribution of firearms and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Atlanta, Georgia tax consultant was sentenced in United States District Court this week, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., to 27 months in prison for committing mail fraud and money laundering associated with a scheme to defraud the Kentucky Department of Revenue and his client Signature Healthcare, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - Biscayne National Park employees welcomed visitors back to the park today as they reopened Dante Fascell Visitor Center and the Convoy Point grounds. Visitors can also access popular park islands including Adams Key...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: This proposal relates to a board that is not expected to come into operation, at the earliest, until 2022. There’s no pay-for in this bill - and the estimate is that it would essentially require us to come up with $17.5 billion.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $21.7 million contract to Greenberry Industrial LLC in Vancouver, Washington, to replace reverse flow gates at the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant, a feature of the Grand Coulee Power Complex in Grand Coulee, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth R. Carte, Jr., age 27, of Keeseville, New York, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service at historic Fort Union National Monument, in cooperation with non-profit National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF), has invited contemporary painter, Patricia Cummins, as its newest Artist in Residence this October. To sweeten the pot, nature writer and Everglade specialist, Jeff Weber, will be accompanying Cummins during the same residency period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - On Monday, a federal indictment was unsealed, charging two Laurel County men and a Pulaski County couple with drug, kidnapping, and firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Agriculture passed H.R. 2936, the “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017," without opposition. Introduced by Rep. Westerman (R-AR), the bipartisan bill reduces the risk of catastrophic wildfire and dramatically improves the health and resiliency of federal forests and grasslands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed a civil complaint against Michel Cordon Bleu Inc. of Los Angeles, California, and its owner and President Michel G. Blanchet to prevent the distribution of adulterated seafood products in violation of federal law, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Stuart Brian Nickey, 33, a Choctaw Indian from the Bogue Homa Community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation in Jones County, has been charged in a federal indictment with 2nd degree murder, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain. The indictment alleges that, on or about July 1, 2017, Nickey murdered "C.S.", also a Choctaw Indian, by striking her in the head and face.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Stole more than $80,000 from Vigo County taxpayers.
