News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that AmeriCare Ambulance Service, Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS, Inc. (collectively, AmeriCare), have agreed to pay approximately $5.5 million to resolve allegations that they defrauded Medicare by billing for medically unnecessary ambulance transportation services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Houston man has entered a guilty plea to two counts of production and one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement regarding Treasury’s mandated report on Russian oligarchs and their ties to Vladimir Putin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: A Shaker Heights man was charged in federal court with defrauding an investor out of more than $287,000, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony and IRS Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Korner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old resident of Houston has been ordered to federal prison for his conviction of trafficking nearly six kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Marco Antonio Aparicio-Santos pleaded guilty Aug. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Simple Assault and Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding, was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations (M&O) contractor earned an “excellent" rating and nearly $25 million - or 94 percent - of the available award fee for EM work performed from Oct. 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2017, according to a recently released scorecard.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, acting National Park Service (NPS) Director P. Daniel Smith announced the selection of Jeremy Barnum to serve as the NPS chief spokesperson and chief of public affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Charles E. Peeler announces sentences imposed on the defendants listed below Jan. 30, 2018[1], by United States District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: A man who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Jan. 29, 2018, to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RUBEN MORALES, 44, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: City of Miami police officer Dermis Hernandez, 41, of Homestead, was arrested by the FBI for participation in a scheme where Hernandez falsely represented to victim investors that he was able to offer a low risk investment with guaranteed returns through high-interest loans his company made to Costa Rican property owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison for illegally buying 17 handguns in Indiana and bringing them across the border to Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old resident of Houston has been ordered to federal prison for his conviction of trafficking nearly six kilograms of methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Marco Antonio Aparicio-Santos pleaded guilty Aug. 12, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Superintendent William Shott of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument invites community members to an informal conversation over coffee on Thursday, Feb. 22, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. Bring any questions you have and come join the superintendent at the Ranch House Grille, located at 819 North Navajo Drive in Page. No reservations are required and the restaurant welcomes participants to order their own beverages or breakfast from the menu.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: “Today is a unique opportunity for us to hear from colleagues about their legislative ideas and priorities related to reforming the IRS. Tax administration is an issue that I have been familiar with for my entire professional life. As a CPA, I have had years of experience helping individuals and small...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Michael Eugene Williams (61, Jacksonville) to a term of life imprisonment for the commercial sex trafficking of a child, which began when the child was 3 years old. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered restitution...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A Colombian national convicted of money laundering was returned to his home country Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Cedric K. Reddick, age 24, of Columbia, plead guilty in federal court to conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee and to being a felon in possession of a firearm, all in violation of Title 18, United States...
