News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- Benjamin D. George and Jody C. Rookstool, and their company, Western Medical Group, have agreed to pay $1,634,844 million to settle False Claims Act allegations, U.S. Attorney for Utah John W. Huber announced today. The settlement concerns conduct initiated by Western Medical and concludes two qui tam actions filed by whistleblowers in December 2013 and February 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Gonzalez, 42, of Rochester, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with production and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - A former BLM archaeologist and California Trail Interpretive Center volunteer received a national Heritage Heroes award.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Death Valley, CA-Death Valley National Park invites the public to a fun day outdoors counting birds on Friday, December 21. All skill levels are welcome for this opportunity to meet new people and learn about birds while contributing to a citizen-science effort continuing for over a hundred years.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two men were stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Yeager Airport on Dec. 11, when they detected a handgun in each of the men’s carry-on bags.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Milton man caught with a heroin/fentanyl mixture that he intended to sell earlier this year pled guilty yesterday to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeremy A. Kinder, 39, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - The owner and officers of a Japanese-flagged fishing vessel were charged in federal court today with aiding and abetting the trafficking and smuggling of 962 shark fins into and out of Hawaii on November 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Poplar resident Brian Douglas Eagle, 23, admitted sex abuse charges in federal court on Monday after he tried to assault the victim while she was taking a shower, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Raydale R. Mitchell, 48, currently a Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to possessing marijuana in November 2017 in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, when he was an inmate confined to that facility. Mitchell was charged with that offense by a Federal Grand Jury in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Guido Modano, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General’s New York Field Office, today announced that CARLOS SANCHEZ, 33, of Middlebury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to sexually abusing an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury (FCI Danbury).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury returned murder charges against Anthony Valdez aka “Hitter," aka “Tony Boronda," and Kristopher Purcell, aka “K-Dawg," announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The superseding indictment supplements charges brought Oct. 11, 2018, against Purcell.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Aurora Health Care, Inc. (“Aurora") has agreed to pay $12 million to the United States and State of Wisconsin to settle allegations that Aurora violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid in violation of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Moquino, 39, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 21 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for his conviction on an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Milton man caught with a heroin/fentanyl mixture that he intended to sell earlier this year pled guilty yesterday to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeremy A. Kinder, 39, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced Dec. 10, 2018, to nearly three months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Gonzalo Manzo, 33, of Fresno, California, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sierrha Frisbie, 26, of Auburn, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The United States has intervened in a complaint against Sutter Health LLC, a California-based healthcare services provider, and an affiliated entity, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, (collectively “Sutter") that alleges that Sutter violated the False Claims Act by submitting inaccurate information...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jamie Huffman, of Parsons, West Virginia was sentenced today to five years probation for firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
