News from October 2018
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: 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: WASHINGTON - The Superior Court Division’s Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section and the Victim Witness Assistance Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia are launching a hotline and e-mail address for survivors to report child sexual abuse by clergy, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) for a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for cost-shared research and development projects that will ultimately enhance the potential for deepwater enhanced oil recovery (EOR) of conventional resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr., 29 years old, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, was convicted of possessing 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been charged in federal court with participating in a romance fraud scheme that bilked victims across the United States and overseas of nearly $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Eight New Orleans, Louisiana-area defendants have pleaded guilty for their participation in a conspiracy to obtain oxycodone through fraud by using fictitious prescriptions. Six of the eight defendants have also pleaded guilty for the roles in a scheme to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone on the black market.
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: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Senior United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Christopher Scott Carey, 30, a resident of Portland, Maine, to imprisonment for twelve months and one day for making interstate threatening...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man pleaded guilty today to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s (“HHS-OIG") New York Region, announced today that the United States has settled civil healthcare...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant’s Crimes Cost Government More Than $300,000.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office, invites the public to celebrate National Bat Week, Oct. 25-31.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: A former South Florida attorney and a stock promoter have been charged in connection with a $1 million pump and dump securities fraud scheme involving the shares of Valentine Beauty, Inc. (“VLBI").
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, UTAH - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a press day at Steinaker Dam near Vernal, Utah, on October 30. Interested members of the press will be able to tour the dam, take photos, and interview managers and engineers from Reclamation about recent modifications to the facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a report.pdf) outlining the many ways Trump’s tax law encourages the wealthy to dodge taxes at the expense of middle-class families. A recent media investigation alleges that Donald Trump and his family spent decades defrauding taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers joined the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior in announcing a dramatic expansion of the federal government’s key program that provides tribes with access to national crime information databases, the Justice Department’s Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP). The expansion includes Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Eugene Strong, Jr., 22, was sentenced to 84 months in prison and placed on supervised release for 36 months for using a firearm during a crime of violence (bank robbery).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant Charged with Abusive Sexual Contact for Allegedly Groping Fellow Passenger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Cooley Medical Equipment, Inc., an Eastern Kentucky medical equipment supplier headquartered in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $5,254,912 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false or fraudulent claims that misrepresented the ingredients used in certain compounded medical creams.
