News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Tampa - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States has settled allegations that a Tampa-based compounding pharmacy, now-defunct RS Compounding, LLC, and its owner, Renier Gobea, knowingly billed TRICARE excessive prices for compounded prescriptions. In reaching this settlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for using Kik, an instant messaging mobile application, to coerce and entice a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Julian Beavers, a/k/a Ock, a/k/a Marcel Ceasar, a/k/a BJ, 32, of Buffalo, New...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Wynn, Arkansas, man faces three concurrent life sentences for his role in orchestrating a series of Central -Indiana robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Gary Davis, Joel Lee Faison and Tamien Trent were arraigned late yesterday afternoon before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the federal courthouse in Central Islip on a 13-count indictment charging them with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: SANTA FE, NM - The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a two-week public scoping period for input on 55 parcels of federal minerals proposed for the March 2019 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The public scoping period will begin Oct. 5 and conclude on Oct 19. The lease sale is tentatively scheduled for March 6.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Pilots of unmanned aircraft (“drones") who interfere with fighting wildfires, law enforcement efforts, or other first responders, such as medical flights, now are more likely to face serious civil penalties, even for first-time offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against defendants LARMONDO ALLEN, a/k/a “Nino," and WAYNE BANKS, both from New Orleans, for being felons in possession of firearms, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that seven residents of Selma, Alabama entered guilty pleas to violating Title 18 United States Code, Section 922(g)(1) - the felon in possession of a firearm statute.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House passed Republicans’ second tax scam, H.R. 6760...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Former Rhode Island State Senator and businessman James E. Doyle, III, 46, of Pawtucket, today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to thirty-one counts of bank fraud and one count each of filing a false tax return and failing to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant was a Member of Conspiracy that Used Puppies to Secretly Transport Narcotics.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised House of Representative’s passage of The Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act of 2018 (BUILD Act) as part of legislation to reauthorize ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management announces that the ranger station at El Malpais National Conservation Area will be unavailable on Thursday, Oct. 4. The Ranger Station will reopen the following day at 8:30 am. The National Conservation Area will be open for visitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the House passed the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act (S. 2269)...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 82 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 19 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $474,000 civil penalty against Frontier Airlines, Inc. of Denver, Colo., for allegedly operating aircraft that lacked required medical supplies on hundreds of flights.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 28, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) today announced a $2-million cooperative agreement with the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to conduct an in-depth, practicable evaluation of local agencies’ strategies to improve services provided by the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
