News from January 2018
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued the following statement in response to statements by their respective Republican Chairmen regarding text messages between two FBI officials released to the Committees...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today that on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced ALDEN HALL, age 58, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve 30 months in federal prison for her multi-year scheme to defraud the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that DJO Global Inc. (DJO), a medical device company headquartered in Vista, California, has agreed to pay $7.62 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiary, Empi Inc. (Empi), a now-defunct medical device company based in Shoreview, Minnesota...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: CHALLIS, IDAHO - Due to the government shutdown, the Idaho Bureau of Land Management will postpone the statewide hearing regarding motor vehicle and helicopter use in wild horse management operations that was scheduled to take place Jan. 23, from 1-2 p.m. at the BLM Challis Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three defendants pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roger Lee Lemons, 23, of Charlotte, entered his guilty plea to distribution of hydromorphone. In a separate prosecution, Laron Safford, 41, of Bluefield, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. In another separate prosecution, Tomas Mateo, 41, entered his guilty plea to possession of a weapon by a federal inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kirksville, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for embezzling more than $380,000 from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in Columbia, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma (NDOK-USAO) collected $2,034,996.36 in civil and criminal actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $1,028,157.69 was collected in criminal actions, and $1,006,838.67 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Rahshim Carter, an inmate at the federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months after pleading guilty to possessing Suboxone and a homemade weapon known as a shank. The sentence will run consecutive to his current sentence for being a felon in possession of a weapon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it has issued a waiver to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international border in the state of New Mexico, near the Santa Teresa, New Mexico port of entry. The waiver was published in the Federal Register today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: A jury in the Western District of Virginia convicted two business owners of tax evasion and conspiring to structure currency transactions, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that two former Tuskegee Police Department lieutenants, Alex Huntley, 53, and Darian Locure, 44, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in the beating of an arrestee and an attempted cover-up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with Omnicare Inc. (Omnicare), a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Health Corporation and provider of long-term care pharmacy services in Ohio, resolving the Department’s investigation into whether the company violated the Immigration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 26, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced on Jan. 22, to 22 years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for training with terrorists overseas and leading a terrorist plot. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney Benjamin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that DJO Global Inc. (DJO), a medical device company headquartered in Vista, California, has agreed to pay $7.62 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiary, Empi Inc. (Empi), a now-defunct medical device company based in Shoreview, Minnesota, submitted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Drs. Aytac Apaydin and Stephen Worsham, urologists based in Northern California, will pay $1.085 million to resolve allegations that they submitted and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) that was referred and billed in violation of the physician ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official pleaded guilty today to charges of wire fraud and bribery for orchestrating a scheme to steal more than $66,000 in benefit money from the VA for veterans in need.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Federal authorities arrested Yi-Chi Shih, 62, and Kiet Ahn Mai, 63, on Jan. 19, on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license.
