News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Caris Healthcare, L.P. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Caris Healthcare, LLC (“Caris Healthcare"), have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims, and knowingly retaining overpayments, for the care of patients who were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged 11 individuals in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy, which also involves allegations of operating drug involved premises, wire fraud and structuring, through a 20-count superseding indictment returned here Thursday and unsealed today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: LOVELOCK, Nev. - Fire resources from the Winnemucca BLM, Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department, and Rye Patch VFD were able to keep the Rocky fire at 1,613 acres and is 100 percent containment as of 3:05p.m. Monday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Tyriek Hankins was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly for his role in a cocaine and crack distribution conspiracy operating in and around the Cypress Hills Houses (“Cypress"), a large New York City Housing...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., today secured passage of a number of hydropower-related provisions through a bipartisan amendment that was incorporated into H.R. 5895, the first FY 2019 appropriations package, by unanimous consent. Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Steve Daines, R-Mont., Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., were also cosponsors of the amendment. H.R. 5895 passed the Senate today by a vote of 86-5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - In accordance with the Justice Department’s recent efforts to disrupt business email compromise (BEC) schemes that are designed to intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, including many senior citizens, the Department announced Operation Keyboard Warrior, an...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: At the request of Federal security partners, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) §99.7 -“Special Security Instructions"-to address concerns about drone operations over national security sensitive facilities by establishing temporary Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) specific flight restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on June 25, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 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, announced that Dr. BHARAT PATEL, 71, of Milford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to narcotics distribution and health care fraud offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2018
News Release: LOVELOCK, Nev. - Mop-up efforts are currently underway on the Rocky Fire which is at 1,613 acres and 50 percent containment. There are structures in the area and the fire is not contained but there are no immediate threats.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2018
News Release: LOVELOCK, Nev. - The Rocky Fire started just after 7:15 p.m. on June 23, 20 miles north of Lovelock. The fire started on private land, has burned 500 acres and is currently 50% contained as of 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning. The area was under a non-mandatory evacuation and residents have since been allowed to return home.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - Public lands in the Indian Valley and Walker Ridge areas along the Lake-Colusa county line are temporarily closed to public access because of dangers imposed by a wildfire.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have a process established to ensure that family members know the location of their children and have regular communication after separation to ensure that those adults who are subject to removal are reunited with their children for the purposes of removal. The United States government knows the location of all children in its custody and is working to reunite them with their families.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation's Willow Creek Dam near Augusta, Montana, is experiencing high inflows as a result of heavy rain in the greater Sun River Basin this past week. The current reservoir elevation is about 3 feet above the normal full level, and is spilling over the uncontrolled...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2018
News Release: KABETOGAMA, MN: On Friday June 22nd at 12:49 p.m., the park was notified that there had been a 15-20 gallon fuel oil spill on the north side of Peterson Bay at a private residence during a delivery of fuel by contractors. At 1:28 p.m. 130 feet of fuel containment boom and 200 fuel spill absorbent pads...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cut over to a new air traffic control tower at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport early this morning. The new, 128 foot-tall tower will enable air traffic controllers to continue to provide the safest, most efficient service to flights at the busy Florida airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: A former Killeen, Texas resident was sentenced to 42 months in prison today for aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of a false tax return and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require CRH plc and CRH Americas Materials, Inc. to divest an aggregate quarry in Rocky Gap, Virginia, in order to proceed with its proposed acquisition of Pounding Mill Quarry Corporation. The Department’s Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: A former officer of a software company in Sterling, Virginia, was sentenced to 15 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the government by failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Firdos Sheikh, 58, of Elk Grove, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on two counts of forced labor, two counts of alien harboring for financial gain, one count of obstructing a forced ...
