News from June 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management Anne White leads a group of senior U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), industry, and local representatives participating in the 2018 National Cleanup Workshop, set to be held Sept. 11-13 in Alexandria, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tennessee, returned a 12-count indictment on June 13, 2018, charging five individuals with various offenses, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, relating to a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain and distribute oxycodone, in the middle Tennessee area, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran, for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years of imprisonment and eight years of supervised release on his convictions for conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ROBERT KHUZAMI, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that JOHN GALANIS, a/k/a “Yanni," DEVON ARCHER, and BEVAN COONEY were each convicted today of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud, following a five and half week trial before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Rick Guyon Defrauded Investors of $1.9 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Nehaj Rizvi, 29, from Carrollton, Texas, was arrested today on a federal complaint charging her with health care fraud in connection with a $2.5 million home health care fraud scheme. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: FBI and Knoxville Police Department Investigating Downtown Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Federal prosecutors are teaming up with local and state law enforcement agencies to target violent crime in Wichita and Garden City, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - At approximately 5:30am today, federal law enforcement officers arrived at the federal building at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue in Portland and dismantled obstacles blocking access to the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. -United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the results of a health care fraud sweep in the Western District of Kentucky as part of the national health care fraud takedown led by the Justice Department. The law enforcement takedown, in the Western District of Kentucky...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Price, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management will begin an effort to gather and remove up to 100 wild horses from private lands adjacent to and within the Range Creek Herd Management Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: (NEW ORLEANS) - As a part of the largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice history, the DEA and the Eastern District of Louisiana Strike Force announces charges against 11 individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, in partnership with the Atlanta-Carolinas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program, has released an opioid public service announcement that reminds Georgians that the opioid epidemic demands the urgent attention of everyone in our community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Daryl Trent, age 43, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 27, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 90 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release for trafficking in heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Colorado power company executive has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment, three years supervised release, a $50,000 fine and $2 million dollars in restitution on his conviction of filing a false claim against the United States Department of Energy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct. All of the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Honduran Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Launder Over $1 Million in Bribes and Funds Misappropriated From the Honduran Social Security Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Previously Convicted for Swinging a Knife at and Threatening to Cut an Employee from a Jewelry Store.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Two lawsuits filed by former Forest County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Charles Bolton and his wife, Linda Bolton, against the head of FBI’s Mississippi Field Office and the former head of the IRS’s Criminal Investigative Division for Mississippi have been dismissed by United States District Judge Keith Starrett.
