News from April 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: An Ancient Mystery. In 1915, when American explorers entered an ancient tomb cut in the parched limestone cliffs of the eastern bank of the Nile River, 155 miles south of Cairo, they were greeted by the disembodied head of a 4,000-year-old mummy. But whose head was it?. The mystery has plagued scientists...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston felon, who sold heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine was sentenced to six years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Christopher Rush, 32, previously pled guilty to distribution of heroin. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: On April 3, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Bangkok, Thailand accompanied an eleven (11) member delegation from the Kingdom of Thailand consisting of senior members of the Royal Thai Police (RTP) to HSI’s Cyber Crimes Center (C3) as well as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) National Targeting Center (NTC) with an emphasis on HSI’s capabilities through the NTC-Investigations (NTC-I).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Four Buffalo-area residents were arrested April 12 in connection with an alleged transnational drug trafficking operation. The arrests follow an investigation by the Erie County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST), and the Buffalo Police Department
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Virginia woman who is an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy and a New Jersey couple have been charged with conspiring to illegally purchase five semi-automatic handguns bound for New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Chinese Citizen Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud Related to Dietary Supplement Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Tae Hung Kang, also known as “Kevin Kang," and John Won with conspiring to commit wire and securities fraud, securities fraud, and conspiring to commit money laundering, in connection with schemes involving foreign exchange...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: This morning, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure convened a legislative markup and unanimously approved the following measures that span a wide range of important issue areas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Zhang Xiao Dong (a.k.a. Mark Zhang), of Shanghai, China, pleaded guilty today in Dallas to committing mail fraud in connection with a scheme to sell mislabeled dietary supplements, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has resolved a claim that The Woodlands Retina Center violated the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it refused to treat a disabled patient because he was accompanied by a service animal, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the committee will convene a hearing on how Medicare, Medicaid and human services programs can better address the opioid epidemic and substance abuse disorders. The hearing follows Hatch and Wyden’s call for stakeholder feedback earlier this year. The hearing will take place on Thursday, April 19 at 10 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 215.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Zhelyaz Andreev, 29, a Bulgarian national, was arrested pursuant to an Interpol Red Notice based on an Indictment charging him with: conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government and substantive violations of the Syria Trade Embargo as enforced through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA);...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old Porter man has again been sent to prison, this time for three federal charges to include distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Eric Furzland is a sex offender who has been required to register since his conviction for indecency with a child in 1997 in Harris County. He pleaded guilty Oct. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lafayette woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years and four months in prison for stealing almost $1.5 million from a Broussard oilfield related company.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - April 12, 2018 - Jerry Christopher Bostick, 58, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court, to pay a $100,000 fine and serve five years on probation, with the first six months on home confinement, for possessing unregistered sub-machine guns, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Banner Health has agreed to pay the United States over $18 million to settle allegations that 12 of its hospitals in Arizona and Colorado knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly outpatient basis, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced today. Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health owns and operates 28 acute-care hospitals in multiple states.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Fugitive Wanted for the Kidnapping and Murder of a Federal Agent is Added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" List.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging ELIZABETH ANN PIERCE with...
