News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On June 27, 2018, David Marken Aikoriegie, age 23, of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt and was sentenced to 96 months in prison for three counts of stealing a firearm from a federal firearm licensee and unlawful sale of a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Aikoriegie was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Suit Alleges That The City of Mount Vernon Discharges Raw Sewage and Other Illicit Pollutants from Its Storm Sewer System into the Hutchinson and Bronx Rivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SAINT PAUL, Minn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) St. Paul Field Division urges local residents to celebrate a safe Independence Day when it comes to fireworks. Handling illegal fireworks can lead to severe injuries or even death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Yoelfi Feliz, 21, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for obtaining firearms in exchange for drugs.
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 DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today delivered opening remarks for a panel discussion on “Access to Sustainable Energy in Developing Economies" at the 27th World Gas Conference, which is being held in Washington, D.C. The conference has attracted thousands of the most influential leaders, policymakers, and experts in the energy industry from more than 100 countries to discuss how natural gas will fuel the future.
By EPA 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: 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - As the weather warms and fire danger increases, the Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is implementing public use restrictions on BLM-managed lands on the southern Oregon coast. Starting July 1, 2018 at 12:01 a.m., certain activities on BLM-managed lands in Coos, Douglas and Curry Counties will be restricted to prevent human-caused fire and reduce wildfire potential.
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 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that the Department of Energy (DOE) take several steps to modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 13 months incarceration and three years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to possess and distribute oxycodone, an opiate, and violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a Senate hearing yesterday focused on waste and fraud in healthcare, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill highlighted the rapidly increasing cost of prescription drugs. As the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, McCaskill’s focus on healthcare spending comes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that former Philadelphia Police Department Sergeant Brian Smith, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, a $10,000 fine, and a $200 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert imposed the sentence. Smith previously pled guilty to two counts of soliciting a bribe.
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: 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: 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...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that the Department of Energy (DOE) take several steps to modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: This afternoon, a 48 year old male died while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) in Avon, North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) formally proposed a rule shrinking the management area for the North Carolina red wolf from the current range of nearly 2 million acres down to a single national wildlife refuge and an adjacent former bombing range, a plan that Ranking...
