News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA’s head of Diversion Control today joined with senior Department of Health & Human Services and Office of National Drug Control Policy officials to host a listening session with health care provider groups who represent drug prescribers nationwide. The purpose of the summit was to hear concerns and develop positive solutions to the issues these providers often face.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert C. Ponce, 43, of Carlsbad, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to drug trafficking and firearms offenses. Ponce is the eighth of the ten defendants charged as the result of a multi-agency investigation into a criminal organization that was trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine and firearms in southeastern New Mexico to plead guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Duane Loyd, 47, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to bank robbery and brandishing a firearm. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of seven years, in prison, a maximum penalty of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kaderrah Doyle, Cara Steinberg, Marina Golfo, Ego Onaga, Lyubov Beylina, Danielle Scopinich, Patricia Hakim and Enock Mensah with stealing more than $600,000 in funds from Medicaid and the New York City Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Seky Daniel, 26, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to seven years in federal prison, for distributing cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Daniel pleaded guilty to these charges on July 10, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: September 1 - Sept. 30, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Reclamation has awarded $1.3 million to seven projects to establish or expand water markets or water marketing activities. These seven projects are located in California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hermosa, South Dakota, man convicted of Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Child & Adult Care Feeding Program Defrauded of More Than $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison for stealing a firearm from a gun show in Berea.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has issued a Notice of Intent for an upcoming Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). This FOA is expected to provide funding for cost-shared research and development projects that increase recovery from unconventional oil and natural gas (UOG) plays and characterize fundamental attributes of emerging shale plays.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Court Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Ryan Williamson (50, Fort Myers) and William Pierce (50, Virginia) to one year in prison, and nine months’ imprisonment, respectively, for conspiring to pay unlawful kickbacks to a local doctor for referring patients to A&G Spinal...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a variety of events and activities for people of all ages this fall at New Melones Lake. From kayaking to critters, there is something for everyone!
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man arrested a week ago on federal indictments charging him with unlawfully selling four firearms, including two AR-47 assault rifles, was re-arrested yesterday and ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with witness intimidation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which is the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy and a top priority of Attorney General Sessions. PSN is an evidence-based program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Ray Perales, 43, of Caldwell, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 262 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A federal grand jury indicted Perales on Sept. 14, 2017, and he later pleaded guilty on July 13, 2018. Perales was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Transportation released “Preparing for the Future of Transportation, Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0)."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Defrauded the New York State Early Intervention Program Out of More Than $600,000 through Fraudulent Billing for Therapy Sessions that Never Occurred.
