News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: The owner of a Miami-area pharmacy pleaded guilty for his role in Medicare prescription fraud scheme involving approximately $8.4 million in fraudulent billings.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Hector Velez, 22, formerly of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Arena Americas wrongfully obtained U.S. Department of Defense contracts reserved for small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Hoax Threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced today that HSBC will pay $765 million to settle claims related to its packaging, securitization, issuance, marketing and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2007. During this period, federally-insured financial institutions...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Death Valley National Park’s Mosaic Canyon Road is closed through June 30, 2019. The temporary closure is necessary due to safety concerns during a construction project on to increase the capacity of the Stovepipe Wells water system. The project includes excavating trenches and a large pit, and placing water pipes and a large tank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Trevor Winfield Evins, age 35, of Florence, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins, Jr., of Spartanburg, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after a pre-sentence report is prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A former Erie County, New York Democratic party chair pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally cause a $25,000 campaign donation from a foreign source to a New York state official running for reelection.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident who sexually exploited an infant and distributed child pornography over the Internet was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Howard D. McKibben to serve 480 months in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervision, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Narcis Gabriel Burcea, age 26, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, was arrested on October 6 for transporting Andreea Tita Pirlica, an alien and citizen of Romania, following Pirlica’s illegal entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (NY-17) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member John Yarmuth (KY-03) sent a joint letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, urging him to work with Democrats on a bipartisan agreement to raise discretionary spending limits and to adequately fund discretionary programs in the President's 2020 budget.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its cleanup contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) have demolished five buildings in the Poplar Creek area of the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) since last year, and one more will soon be added to that list: the K-1232 Chemical Recovery Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Sessions and this Administration is wholly committed to working with our federal, state and local partners to ensure the safety of our streets, our families and our children. Frankly, we will no longer tolerate drug dealers, drug traffickers, violent criminals, or illegal guns on the street of the City of Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six months’ probation on her conviction of embezzlement by a bank employee, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New York man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to charges that he participated in conspiracies to operate large-scale, sophisticated marijuana grow facilities inside a converted Providence mill building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jerome Lauzon, age 44, of Gansevoort, New York, was arraigned today on a charge of misappropriating at least $5,000 from a federally funded program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Alfonso Vazquez, 31, of Roswell, N.M., with a methamphetamine trafficking offense. The charge arises from the distribution of approximately 56.5 grams of methamphetamine to an undercover law enforcement agent. Vazquez was remanded into custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Chad Knowlton, age 24, of Queensbury, New York, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
