News from December 2018
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington - If the scientific and technological achievements of 2018 are any indication, the upcoming year promises to be just as successful for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) as it continues to deliver scientific solutions to national and global agricultural challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Chicago-area men have pleaded guilty to the robberies of Rockford-area cell phone stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: FBI, Knoxville Police Looking for Armed Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The founder and former chief executive officer of Celerity Educational Group, a Koreatown-based non-profit company that owned and operated charter schools, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for misappropriating approximately $2.5 million in public-education funds awarded to several Celerity charter schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Wheeling Hospital, R & V Associates, and Ronald Violi Based on Improper Payments and Kickbacks to Physicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a five-count superseding indictment charging CARLOS DELGADO, also known as “Los," 49, of Mansfield, and LUIS ALAMO, 42, of Willimantic, with narcotics trafficking and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Also Convicted of Eight State Crimes Committed Over Six Months in 2018.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KS - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Midwest Drywall Company Inc. for safety violations after part of a forklift fatally crushed an employee at the company’s Wichita, Kansas, facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A consultant and independent contractor for a company that did business with the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources was indicted today on charges that he paid more than $140,000 in bribes to a former D.C. government employee and that he stole payments on city contracts that should have gone to his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Juan Pablo Malagon-Alvarez (41, Ocala) to 11 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and for possessing with the intent to distribute heroin. The court...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Professional Ambulance, LLC, a local provider of ambulance and medical transportation services based in Providence, will pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary ambulance runs, according to a Civil Settlement Agreement signed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Carlos Arturo Cuerro Borja (51), a Colombian national, to 18 years in federal prison, for his role in an international maritime cocaine trafficking conspiracy. In August 2018, a federal jury found him guilty of one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony Schmidt, 20, of Tonawanda, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of narcotics trafficking. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that on Dec. 21, 2018, United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Jose Luis Murillo, of Omaha, to an 87-month term of imprisonment, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Murillo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Trapp, 50, of Clarence, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that five defendants were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone, hydrocodone, amphetamine, and buprenorphine, all Schedule II controlled substances, and carisoprodol...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kyle Dale Ritsema (36, Land O’ Lakes) today pleaded guilty to producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. Ritsema faces a minimum mandatory of 15 years, and up to 30 years, for producing child pornography, a minimum...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - At the request of the White Pine County Commission, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office is extending the public input period by 39 days on a proposal to designate a signed trail system in White Pine County consisting of existing roads and trails that would be open to all uses. The public scoping period concludes Friday, Feb. 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Files Statement of Interest in Student Group’s First Amendment Case Against University of Iowa.
