News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Quincey Frye, 27, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of being a felon in possession of a shotgun and ammunition, was sentenced to 40 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced last week to 78 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Misled Investors into Purchasing Artificially Inflated Stock in Publicly Traded Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Jeffrey Bates Received Disability Benefits from the Railroad Retirement Board While Also Working.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after a Texas District Court judge ruled against the Affordable Care Act, threatening core parts of the law like pre-existing condition protections, tax credits for health care and the Medicaid expansion...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stacey Plaskett, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment, sent a letter to FEMA Administrator William “Brock" Long requesting...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the public that road construction, including closures, on Chickamauga Battlefield’s McFarland Gap Road, will continue through April 15, 2019, dependent on weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - Fifteen area residents were indicted yesterday in eight cases alleging health care fraud by “caregivers" and “home health care clients" purportedly receiving home health care. In each of the cases, the workers and patients are alleged to have sought payment for services from the Missouri...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jake Alexander Cruse, age 32, of Schaghticoke, New York, was arrested on December 12 on charges of transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Marc Howard Berger was sentenced today to eight months in prison for aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOEL MICHAEL BANE, age 39, of New Jersey, was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 after pleading guilty on Sept. 13, 2018 to one count of interference with flight crew.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Dec. 14, 2018 - Margaret Fisher, 60, formerly of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested yesterday by United States Marshals in Williston, North Dakota and charged with four counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The United States has filed a complaint in the Western District of New York against YRC Freight Inc., (YRC); Roadway Express Inc. (Roadway); and Yellow Transportation Inc. (Yellow), alleging that these companies systematically overcharged the government for freight carrier services and made false statements to the government that hid their misconduct, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Benjamin C. Glassman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, honored the work of eleven district employees by presenting them with the U.S. Attorney’s Awards for Outstanding Performance. Those honored are.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man who possessed and used over 500 fraudulent credit and debit cards throughout the Las Vegas Valley was sentenced Thursday to 60 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney’s Office Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Wildland firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management’s Elko District Office will host a firefighter recruitment event on Wednesday, Dec. 19, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Great Basin College, High Tech Center, room 139.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man who worked as a private tutor was sentenced in federal court today for sexually assaulting a former 10-year-old student.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that former New York State Senator Marc Panepinto, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of promise of employment, compensation, or other benefit for political activity, was sentenced to serve two months in prison and one year supervised release by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Capitol Reef National Park will soon modify its seven-day entrance fee from $15.00 per vehicle to $20.00 per vehicle, $7.00 per person to $10.00 per person, and from $10.00 per motorcycle to $15.00 per motorcycle on Jan. 1, 2019. The Capitol Reef annual pass will increase from $30.00 to $35.00.
