News from June 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is making seven recommendations that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) take additional action to ensure all contract pharmacies are compliant with the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program).
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: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Moorehead, Minnesota, man convicted of Criminal Contempt pled guilty and was sentenced on June 26, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Spencer Wayne Allen, 26, was sentenced today before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez to 93 months of imprisonment for his convictions of arson and malicious damage and destruction to federal property, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Judge Gomez also sentenced Allen to 3 years of supervised released, 300 hours of community service, and a $300 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - 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 165...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Victor Mora, 33, of St. Louis, was charged in a federal indictment charging him with one felony count of interference with commerce by threats or violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: An 11-count indictment was unsealed yesterday, charging five Tennessee health care executives with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Anti-Kickback Statute and several substantive counts of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today named House Democrats to serve on a conference committee of the House and Senate versions of the Minibus Appropriations bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: The next IRS commissioner will be in charge of administering a tax system that’s broken in two.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today that IGNACIO FONCILLAS pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting...
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 601 Individuals Responsible for Over $2 Billion in Fraud Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee hearing with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray on “oversight of FBI and DOJ actions surrounding the 2016 election."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is making seven recommendations that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) take additional action to ensure all contract pharmacies are compliant with the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady today announced, as part of a nationwide health care fraud enforcement action, three Pittsburgh-area doctors were charged and two medical professionals - a doctor and a Suboxone clinic manager - pleaded guilty to unlawfully dispensing and distributing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hopewell Township, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distribution of fentanyl, which he acknowledged caused the death of a victim identified as L.K., United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: National Park Service staff at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial look forward to welcoming visitors to the Outer Banks over the Independence Day holiday next week.
