News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robin Jo Rose, 31, of Lewiston, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison, to be followed by ten years of supervised release, for her role in distributing methamphetamine, U. S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U. S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered that Rose forfeit $7,000 in cash. Rose pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Anderson, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Ashford James “AJ" Simmons, age 29, of Gray Court, South Carolina, and Brittany Nicole Smith, age 24, of Piedmont, South Carolina, were sentenced for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Lane Edward Miller, age 26, of Marietta, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1028A(a)(1) and 2, punishable by up to 2 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -A New Orleans, Louisiana woman was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for her involvement in a $3.2 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Wednesday, March 28, bicyclists willing to brave the unpredictable elements of spring can cycle select roads in Yellowstone National Park. Road segments include Mammoth Hot Springs to Willow Park and the West Entrance to Roaring Mountain. Until conditions improve...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A McKeesport, Pennsylvania resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges relating to Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Bethanne M. Dinkins, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG"), and Daniel D. Brownell, the Commissioner of the New York City Business Integrity Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that National Technology Development, L.L.C. (NTD) pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford, to making a false statement. The judge then sentenced NTD to forfeit $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: New Orleans Woman Sentenced to Prison for Role in $3.2 Million Health Care Fraud and Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A demolition and asbestos abatement company and its owner were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with operating a “double breasted shop," which enabled them to defraud the Massachusetts Laborers Benefit Funds (MLBF). In this case, the company utilized a second corporate entity to pay union members and thereby avoided paying union benefits to the MLBF.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Many opportunities exist to use robotics underwater, inside nuclear facilities, and underground to advance DOE’s cleanup work, Rod Rimando, director of EM’s Office of Technology Development, said here last week during a panel discussion at this year’s Waste Management Symposium.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., sentenced David Michael Shope, 43, of Huntersville, N.C., to 105 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Shope, who is an Oncologist, was also ordered to serve a 15 years under court supervision and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Carlos Peralta, age 28, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered Jet Logistics Inc. (JLI) and New England Life Flight Inc. - doing business as Boston MedFlight (BMF) - to reinstate a pilot who lost his job after complaining about what he reasonably believed were violations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 36-year-old Channelview, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, doctor was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in a test-referral bribe scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the Department of Justice Inspector General announced he is opening an investigation into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Monica Merlin Morales, 26, of Point Arena, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: On March, 19, 2018, after months of investigation, surveillance and operational activity, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nairobi Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU) executed a Kenyan search warrant at a petroleum export yard pursuant to various violations of Kenyan law.
