News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Two Miami, Florida residents pleaded guilty today to health care fraud charges for their roles in an $8.6 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: David Vogelpohl, age 21, of Vista, California, has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child. The charge is contained in an Indictment unsealed on Dec. 3, 2018, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced sentencing of MARIO LUIS JONES, 27, for the violent armed robbery of a Red & White taxicab in Minneapolis, Minnesota. JONES pleaded guilty on May 8, 2018, and was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment, on Dec. 3, 2018, by Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 29-year-old Carthage, Texas man has been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: U.S. Soldier Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Rome, NY - On Friday, December 7, Dr. Matthew Hill and Dr. Jon Parmenter will present a new study titled: “The Fort Stanwix Treaties: An Ethnohistory of Iroquois Diplomacy and Dispossession." This presentation will take place at 11 a.m., at the Rome Historical Society.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a federal inmate pled guilty to a weapon charge. Colin Threadgill, 27, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at McDowell, pled guilty to possessing a handcrafted weapon known as a “shank" at the prison on August...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Eric P. Krieg, age 46, of Munster, Indiana, plead guilty to knowingly making an unregistered destructive device, mailing a destructive device, malicious use of explosive materials, and mailing a threatening communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.2 billion (PDF, 509 KB) to help rebuild and improve rural water infrastructure for 936,000 rural Americans living in 46 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn D. Schell, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to 21 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Logan Kranenberg, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to 61 months incarceration for heroin distribution and a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced today that Dermatology Associates of Central New York, PLLC (Dermatology Associates) will pay $811,196.88 to resolve allegations that it violated the federal and New York False Claims Acts by knowingly billing the federal and state governments for medical services at a higher rate than appropriate.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Holiday events this year at Wind Cave National Park begin Sunday, Dec. 16,, with the Twenty-Third Annual Wind Cave National Park Christmas Bird Count followed by the park’s holiday open house on Monday, December 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging JEROME ROBERT HENNESSEY, 56, with one count of mail fraud. HENNESSEY surrendered himself and made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Katherine Menendez, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced two new prizes as part of its Manufacturing Innovator Challenge, an effort to crowdsource solutions for next generation manufacturing to increase energy productivity and strengthen America's industrial base.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher Lee Myers, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to 97 months incarceration for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Business Email Compromise Involving Gift Card Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Keith Mullen, 46, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. to 180 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith. Mullen was also ordered to pay a $1,500.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with importing and selling counterfeit apparel.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Environmental changes and economic incentives are transforming maritime activity in the Arctic region. As ice recedes and maritime activity increases, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing for potential incidents involving oil and hazardous materials in U.S. Arctic waters through the...
