News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Anderson Rankin, 55, of Circleville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for tax crimes that included a total tax loss of approximately $8.1 million. Rankin was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $7.1 million.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) recently transferred four commercial clothes dryers to the Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization (PACRO) to support a worthy cause.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DARCY WEDD was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring text...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ann Calvaresi Barr, Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development (“USAID"), announced today the filing and settlement of a civil fraud complaint against NORWEGIAN PEOPLE’S AID (“NPA"), a non-profit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Donquell Weddington has been indicted on federal charges of distributing heroin to an individual which resulted in serious injury and death, as well as three additional counts of distributing heroin and cocaine in 2017 and 2018. This case was presented as part of Operation SCOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Joseph J. Colello, 57, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison followed by three years’ supervised release for money laundering and defrauding the IRS. Colello was also ordered to pay more than $81,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: v. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Clinton, Mo., man has been indicted in a $4.7 million investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded 89 investors who believed they were purchasing cattle for resale at a profit. Cameron J. Hager, 42, of Clinton, was charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Steven Simmons Defrauded Investors and Diverted Fraudulent Proceeds for His Own Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Keith Parr, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a sex offender registration violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: WORLAND, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office is requesting public input as it proposes to gather excess wild horses in the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) and update the HMA’s management plan. Both actions demonstrate the BLM’s commitment to maintaining healthy wild horses on healthy, productive public rangelands.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jamie Moreno, 34, of Carlsbad, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Two Mexican nationals and a Cleveland man were charged in federal court after law enforcement agents seized more than 140 pounds of methamphetamine in Hudson, believed to be the largest seizure of meth in Ohio history.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against Air America, Inc. of Carolina, Puerto Rico, for allegedly conducting passenger-carrying flights using a pilot who had not received enough rest, using an unqualified pilot, operating aircraft when they were overweight and not properly loaded, and failing to provide pilot records.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Brij R. Vaid, 56, and Donna A. Waldo, 57, both of St. Louis County, Missouri, were charged by Indictment with conspiracy to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid regarding “face to face" office visits submitted under Dr. Vaid’s personal billing number while he was actually out of town. Dr. Vaid was also charged with six counts of making and presenting false claims to the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on President Trump’s proposed Section 301 import tariffs to combat Chinese trade misconduct...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for a few good suppliers - for the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) , that is.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DR. CHRISTOPHER BATEMAN SLATER, 57, of Guymon, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison for distributing codeine without a medical purpose, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding proposed changes affecting Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs payments and policies for 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man will be serving nearly 43 years in prison for the attempted robbery and robbery of the Shared Resources Credit Union and for using and carrying a firearm during commission of the crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury deliberated for less than five hours before convicting Raynard Gray, 34 and Sonny Pervis, 28, March 23, 2017, on all counts as charged following a three-day-trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 3, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a twenty-two count Indictment charging three defendants with a 12-year fraud and money laundering scheme involving over $200 million in government-funded contracts...
