News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUDIE OLIVERA was sentenced today to a term of 40 years in prison for her role in the May 2012 home-invasion robbery of victim Miles Klein, which resulted in Klein’s death. On June 26, 2018, GIBRON LOPEZ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces the Line-of-Duty Death of Former Special Agent Brian L. Crews.
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 Dosages of Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: 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: Three Medical Professionals Across Idaho Indicted for Fraud Involving Controlled Substances.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill joined Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio in announcing at a roundtable yesterday that the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, which their 2015 permitting reform law created, has already saved $1 billion in infrastructure project costs since 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Willie James Tunstall, 36, of Spanish Fort, Alabama, was sentenced this morning to 100 months’ imprisonment on gun and drug charges. Court documents show that Tunstall was involved in the distribution of crack...
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: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Issac Johnson, age 25, of Royal, Arkansas was sentenced today to 110 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: (SAVANNAH, Ga.) - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Valerie Chu (619) 546-6750.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, was sentenced on June 27, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Western WY - As the Independence Day holiday approaches, visitors and local residents alike are reminded that fireworks are not permitted in Grand Teton National Park, on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, within the National Elk Refuge, or in Sublette and Teton Counties. These fireworks regulations play a critical role in fire prevention during a time of year when vegetation begins drying and warmer temperatures become more common throughout the Teton Interagency Zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 590+ charged defendants across 56 federal districts, including 150+ doctors, nurses, and other...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Joshua D. Jett, 34, formerly of Maysville, Kentucky, was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl causing death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A federal grand jury in London, Kentucky, today returned a two-count indictment charging Brandon McIntosh, a former deputy of the Rockcastle County Sheriff’s Office, with violating the civil rights of an arrestee by using excessive force against him and then filing a false report to obstruct the investigation of that assault.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) former Chief Counsel for the Seattle Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) was sentenced to 48 months in prison for a wire fraud and aggravated identity theft scheme involving the identities of numerous aliens.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today on the House floor highlighted the ongoing atrocities in Syria and urged the Senate to pass the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which would sanction Assad and his backers, hold war criminals accountable, and give...
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 medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $2 billion in false billings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: A Honduran man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to launder into the United States more than $1.3 million in foreign bribe payments and public funds from the Republic of Honduras. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made the announcement.
