News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Four residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were charged in federal court with conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Fort Scott, Kansas - Fort Scott National Historic Site (FOSC) has received a field trip grant for the 2018-2019 school year from the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. This $5,000 grant will reimburse the costs of transportation for fourth grade class field trips to this national park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Khoi Nguyen was sentenced to federal prison for aggravated identity theft on Oct. 19, 2018. As a part of his scheme, Nguyen stole the identity of an unwitting victim, then subsequently opened a fraudulent online bank account at Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T) bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DEL CARMEN HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ, 43, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vashawn Strader, 40, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for bribing an employee of the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to get favorable action on government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Noel Carter, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Bakersfield police officers Damacio Diaz and Patrick Mara to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana that Diaz and Mara seized in the course of their duties as police officers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Stefan Ramirez, 34, of Fresno, today to 12 years and seven months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Robbery team terrorized stores in Indianapolis and Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man admitted today that he abused his position as an employee of the U.S. Army Contracting Command New Jersey (ACC-NJ) in connection with his role in two conspiracies in construction projects at Picatinny Arsenal (PICA) and at Joint Base McGuire-Dix Lakehurst (Ft. Dix), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Monica Vega, 36, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison for her conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Vega will be on supervised release for five years after completing her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - OLSEN ORTHOPEDICS, P.L.L.C., an Oklahoma City orthopedic company, has agreed to pay $455,000 to settle civil allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Led police on a high speed chase near elementary school, and caused traffic accident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin in April 2017 was sentenced today to 14 months, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Aubrey Gardner, 25, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin. The Huntington Police Department and the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force conducted the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Tyron McFadden, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 276 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: “Fairly Sophisticated" Drug Operation Had Over Eighty Customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: This morning, four-term Dallas City Councilman Larry Duncan, a former president of Dallas County Schools’ Board of Trustees, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion before Chief Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump administration issued new guidance on Section 1332 waivers that would encourage junk health plans and threaten American families’ health care.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s new guidance which loosens guardrails for issuing section 1332 waivers and allows states to ignore certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that protect patients.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-095-18, issued at 9:00am on Oct. 19, which announced cancellations of export sales of 180,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2018/2019 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
