News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: For Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man was sentenced today for the commission of a series of bank robberies culminating in an armed robbery at a Pasadena bank where he brandished a shotgun and placed it to the side of a bank employee’s head while demanding money.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration will add 250 task force officers and dozens of additional analysts to areas across America where the opioid crisis is at its worst. DEA task forces act as a force multiplier in carrying out DEA’s mission through coordination and cooperation with federal, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: OFFICIAL NONPROFIT PARTNER OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FACILITATES DONATION TO HELP MONITOR CALIFORNIA CONDORS.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released a report as part of her years-long effort to investigate dramatic prescription drug price increases, showing that the prices of many of the most popular brand-name drugs increased at nearly ten times the cost of inflation from 2012 to 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Cara M. Blewitt, 31, of Oakville, Connecticut was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for aiding and abetting bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery. The charges arose from the robberies of a TD Bank branch and a Dollar Tree store. The defendant pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Due to the underwhelming response by the oil and gas industry to the recent Department of the Interior (DOI) Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas lease sale, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today to call him out for pushing forward...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hazelet, New Jersey, was sentenced in federal court for engaging in health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jason Soto, a member of the “Cypress Gangster Crips" street gang, was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to 10 years’ imprisonment following his conviction at trial for selling a firearm to a convicted felon, unlawfully possessing a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Paterson, Passaic, and Elizabeth was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for defrauding Medicare and private insurance companies out of $3 million by billing them for over 150,000 physical therapy sessions that were performed by unlicensed and unqualified personnel, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: “OPERATION JUGGERNAUT". MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that:. Dave Ellis Wilson, aka Jughead, age 44, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma pled guilty to Distribution Of Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) and Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) released a discussion draft entitled “The Taxpayer First Act." This bipartisan legislation will propose ways to improve the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the first time since 1998.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIGBY KERR, 50, of Meriden, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man charged with Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hazelet, New Jersey, was sentenced in federal court for engaging in health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - The Put-in-Bay Music Festival is bringing a new flavor of "Americana" music to the stage for the second annual event on Saturday, June 9. Continuing the long tradition of celebrating peace through music Groovement, Low Down Brass Band, Hillbilly Casino, Swingmania and the Reese Daily Band will rock the stage at Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. Beloved island performer Bob Gatewood will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen will travel to Mexico City, Mexico from March 26 – 27 to participate in bilateral meetings with Secretary of Interior Alfonso Navarrete Prida and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Videgaray Caso. She will also meet with the U.S. Ambassador ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2018
News Release: There's so much to see and do in Hyde Park, NY that the National Park Service, Metro-North Railroad, Amtak and Dutchess County Transit have made it easy for you to spend a day visiting the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites and FDR’s Presidential Library and Museum. Leave the car at home and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2018
News Release: Roseburg, OR. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would like to announce the opening dates for campgrounds and pavilions on the Roseburg District. The following campgrounds will open on the corresponding dates:.
