News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant Admits Making Unauthorized Charges, Writing Fraudulent Checks.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Construction projects on bridges near Anacostia Park will affect the way you access the park via driving, walking or mass transit. The District’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) has started the first phases of rehabilitation projects for South Capitol Street SE, also known as the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, and for the I-295 Anacostia Freeway Bridge over Nicholson Street SE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a former software development manager for Equifax, was arraigned today on federal charges of insider trading for allegedly using information entrusted to him to purchase put options and turn a profit when the news of the data breach was made public. A grand jury previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Southern District of Illinois Indictment Part of Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has returned two indictments involving the illegal distribution of and fraudulent billing for prescription opioids by health care professionals, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland woman was indicted in federal court for making a straw purchase from a gun store in Eastlake of a rifle that was later used in the attempted robbery of a credit union.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mountain Medical Services (Mountain Medical) and its owner, Michael Pond, M.D., have agreed to pay $110,000 under the False Claims Act to resolve allegations that they knowingly billed the federal government for services at a higher rate than appropriate, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith.
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 involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has allocated more than $4 million for federal, state, and tribal projects to prevent, contain, control, and monitor invasive quagga and zebra mussels in the West. This funding advances actions announced by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in June 2017 as part...
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 involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: National health care fraud takedown results in charges against over 590 individuals responsible for over $2 billion in fraud losses - Largest health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. Department of Justice history.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that James Mansfield, 33, of Etna, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to one year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana. Mansfield pleaded guilty on Feb. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Six people were indicted in federal court for crimes related to child pornography or child exploitation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: We will vote on the nominations off the floor of the Senate. There are several nominees up for consideration, Ms. Elizabeth Copeland and Mr. Patrick Urda are up for positions on the U.S. Tax Court. Obviously those positions deal with fairness for taxpayers as we’ve been talking about today. Mr. Jeffrey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on June 25, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Current and forecasted weather conditions coupled with extremely dry conditions and heavy loading of vegetation throughout Eastern Utah have created hazardous fire conditions. As a result, as of Monday, June 25, 2018, all State, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and National Park Service lands and all unincorporated private lands in the following areas are under fire restrictions:.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to Cyber Security Professionals, Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia for Environmental Management Cyber Security Services. This contract is a Time and Materials type contract. The contract contains a $5.2 million estimated value of services, and has a twelve month period of performance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Today’s Arrest Part of National Health Care Fraud Takedown Charging 76 Doctors in 84 Opioid Cases Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 17-count indictment yesterday charging KWASI GYAMBIBI, 40, of Stamford, and KAKRA GYAMBIBI, 37, formerly of New Canaan and currently residing in Maryland, with health care fraud offenses.
