News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Portland, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it will begin to prepare an environmental assessment for the reclassification of public domain lands as part of the implementation of the Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act. The Act, signed into law by President Trump on January...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: The Organization of American Historians awarded Channel Islands National Park the prestigious 2019 Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History at its annual conference this week in Philadelphia for the Island of the Blue Dolphins web resource.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: A federal jury found a South Florida health care facility owner guilty today for his role in the largest health care fraud scheme ever charged by the Justice Department, involving over $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid for services that were not provided, were not medically necessary or were procured through the payment of kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Demetrius Catching, age 28, formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, and currently inmate at FCI Allenwood, pleaded guilty on April 2, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to assault on a correctional officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The former leader of a large-scale Honduran drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 37 years in prison for trafficking thousands of kilograms of cocaine bound for the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Two more Tulsa doctors have entered into settlement agreements with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, LLC, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marcus Devaughn Coleman, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: JACKSON, MISS. - Seven additional men from Greenville, Miss., face federal narcotics and weapons charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury, announced William C. Lamar, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, in commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 7-13, 2019, is supporting events throughout the community to raise awareness about crime victims’ issues and rights and introduce the community...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Three Texas men, including a former Weslaco City Commissioner and a former Hidalgo County Commissioner, were arrested today on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in federal court in Springfield for selling cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation and prosecution culminated today with the sentencing of a member of the Hanover Boyz street gang to 51 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, woman today admitted calling in hoax bomb threats to the federal courthouse in Camden and the Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James Famularo, age 61, of Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 2, 2019, by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to six months’ imprisonment to be followed by six months home detention, as well as a two-year term of supervised release, for income tax evasion spanning tax years 2012 through 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOSE RAMON ONTIVEROS, a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, was sentenced to 32 years in prison by United States District Judge Gregory H. Woods for running a drug trafficking organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Michael Lee DePine, 62, of Pensacola, pleaded guilty today to the production and possession of child pornography. Based upon his guilty plea, he will be required to register as a sex offender. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On April 4, 2019, Dana Andrew Eller, age 38, of Marshalltown, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Crime. Eller was sentenced to 270 months in prison to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from RCB Bank Robbery in Yukon, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in federal court in Springfield for selling cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Ashanti Roundtree (44, North Port) guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possessing a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Roundtree faces a maximum penalty of life and a mandatory minimum of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11, 2019.
