News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: The owner of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC and two former directors of investments have been charged criminally, in the Southern District of Florida, with orchestrating a massive investment fraud (Ponzi) scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Sutter Health LLC, a California-based healthcare services provider, and several affiliated entities, Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, and Sutter Medical Foundation, have agreed to pay $30 million to resolve allegations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City filed a civil complaint in U.S. District Court afternoon morning against a doctor the complaint alleges is issuing prescriptions for controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substance Act. To protect the public, the United States is also seeking a preliminary injunction to immediately stop the doctor from prescribing powerful controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - With the deadline for filing income tax returns rapidly approaching, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Field Office, IRS Criminal Investigation Division, jointly announced a warning to those who are thinking about breaking the law by committing tax crimes including listing recent tax fraud prosecutions and sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Carlos Manriquez-Aviles today to a term of imprisonment of 168 months, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Manriquez, 29 years old, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- On April 8, 2019, Seraphina Charley, 30, of Church Rock, NM, a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by District Judge Steven P. Logan to 78 months’ imprisonment. After a four-day trial, Charley was found guilty by a jury of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury and making false statements to a government agency.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Eastern Colorado Area Office (ECAO) is seeking public input on a request by the private Sail and Saddle Club for an up to 20-year special use permit to allow its operations to continue on federal land at Horsetooth Reservoir. Pertinent information regarding the special use permit can be found at url: www.usbr.gov/gp/ecao/ under "Current News & Upcoming Events."
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Lansing WV - Visitors to New River Gorge National River will see some impacts as a result of a West Virginia Division of Highways construction project on Fayette Station Road (CR 82), beginning Monday, April 15 and continuing through Sunday, July 28, 2019. The project is necessary for road widening, repairs, and repaving.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: On the 100th day of the 116th Congress, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) highlighted the Committee’s activity up to this point of strengthening the economy, creating good paying jobs, providing much-needed relief to consumers, combating climate change and conducting robust oversight.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Shawn Brooks, age 27, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison today by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to the 480 months of imprisonment, Brooks will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Ann E. Darling-Batson, 58, of Herrin, Illinois, has pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return and fraudulently acquiring a controlled substance. Darling-Batson had been an office manager at New Horizons OBGYN, an obstetrics and gynecological practice group in Carbondale, Illinois. As...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Lauren Montillo, age 47, of Towson, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and for tax evasion. Judge Bennett also ordered Montillo to pay restitution of $4,060,284.79 to the victims of the scheme, and $276,240 to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that James Bergeron, 29, of Sulphur, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Thursday day before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Kay for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: On the 100th day of the 116th Congress, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) highlighted the Committee’s activity up to this point of strengthening the economy, creating good paying jobs, providing much-needed relief to consumers, combating climate change and conducting robust oversight.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lake Charles man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to illegally possessing a firearm after leading Lake Charles police officers on a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and John Devito, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced today that United States Attorney General William Barr has authorized and directed the United States Attorney’s Office in Syracuse to pursue the death penalty against William D. Wood, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Due to popularity, bird walks will continue through the month of May at Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Carlynne L. Davis, 34, of Lompoc, California, was sentenced on April 5 to 18 months in prison for her participation in a nationwide rental listing scam. Davis worked as a telemarketer at a business owned by Michael S. Davenport, 50, of Santa Barbara, California. Davenport is the former bass guitar player for the Ataris rock band. Last month, Davenport was sentenced to 7 years in prison for his role in the same fraud scam.
