News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: (CHICAGO) - Several Chicago-area medical professionals, including four physicians, are facing federal criminal charges as part of the largest health care fraud enforcement action in Department of Justice history, federal authorities announced today. The national enforcement action taken by the Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that on June 20, 2018, a grand jury in New Haven returned a 12-count indictment charging ERIC TINGLEY, 42, formerly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston-area investment adviser was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for using his clients’ funds to make his own investments and to pay personal expenses.
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: 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: WASHINGTON - 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 590+ charged defendants across 56 federal districts, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History Resulted in 76 Doctors Charged and 84 Opioid Cases Involving More Than 13 Million Illegal Doses of Opioids; 21 Defendants Charged in Connection to MDFL.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nomination of Charles Rettig to be the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Quavo Delmontae Williams was sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted carjacking and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher Kevin Solomon, a/k/a Kevin Murphy, age 41, and a citizen of Jamaica, was sentenced today to time served (5 months in jail) for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Leslie Acosta, former Pennsylvania State Representative and former employee of the Juniata Community Mental Health Clinic, was sentenced today to seven months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky. Acosta was also ordered to pay $623,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H. Res. 970, a resolution offered by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: The former police chief of a village in Mahoning County was sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in coordination with California State Department of Parks and Recreation, will add temporary railing-safety improvements at No Hands Bridge in Auburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: A Shaker Heights man was sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding an investor out of more than $287,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Mark Elkhorn, 58, of York, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to one month in prison and three years of supervised release for making false statements to a federal agent. Elkhorn pleaded guilty to the offense on Jan. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Three Cases Charged as Part of National Healthcare Fraud Takedown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Corey Murphy, 26, of Union, Missouri was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment to be followed by lifetime supervision for receiving child pornography in 2016. Murphy pleaded guilty in March and appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally using the identity of another individual to apply for two business loans.
