News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime today awarded more than $8 million to support crime victims in Native American communities in six states: Alaska, California, Maine, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. The group of 13 awards is the third in a series of grants being made by OVC to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. OVC has now awarded more than $17 million of nearly $100 million to support tribal victim service programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to House Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., requesting President Donald Trump’s tax returns under Section 6103 of the tax code...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Defendant Used Investors’ Money for Personal Expenses, Including Pet Supplies, Restaurants and His Child’s School Tuition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that AA STUCCO AND MASONRY, LLC., a company that does business within the Eastern District of Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with harboring two illegal aliens, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, Yesterday, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the IRS requesting the President’s tax returns. Last night, I had a chance to read that letter. And I have to say that if you take it at face value, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Consider the reasons...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Isaiah H. Rangel, age 50, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, appeared before District Judge Karen E. Schreier, on April 3, 2019, and pled guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Aiding and Assisting in the Preparation of False and Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Patrick O’Connor, 61, Waunakee, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering. The wire fraud and money laundering charges stem from O’Connor’s involvement in a large-scale investment fraud scheme involving a financial loss to multiple victims in excess of $9,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Randolph Bourgoin, III, 31, of Millinocket, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to theft of a firearm from a federally licensed dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man has been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly building and exploding a bomb, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comment on two documents related to the potential deregulation of a canola variety genetically engineered (GE) to convert oleic acid to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 4, 2019 - A federal jury sitting in Nashville, Tennessee, found the former CEO of a Tennessee pain management company guilty today for his role in an illegal kickback scheme involving approximately $4 million in tainted durable medical equipment (DME) claims to Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - VERNON WAYNE BROCK, 69, of Alva, has been charged by complaint with hiring someone to commit murder, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sheila Offor, 41, of Scarborough, Ontario, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Thousands of pigs in China have been dying since August 2018. The cause is a virus that infects a pig’s macrophages, a type of white blood cell that acts as a warrior against disease-causing invaders. This viral disease, called African swine fever, can wreak havoc in a pig’s body causing internal bleeding...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) released a newly declassified report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined covert testing used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to identify aviation security vulnerabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that three pharmaceutical companies -Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Jazz), Lundbeck LLC (Lundbeck), and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - have agreed to pay a total of $122.6 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to Medicare and Civilian Health and Medical Program (ChampVA) patients through purportedly independent charitable foundations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to corruption charges related to his smuggling of drugs and other contraband into the Chesapeake City Jail.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after news reports indicated the House Ways & Means Committee will be marking up drug pricing legislation including Wyden-initiated bills that address price gouging and secrecy in the drug pricing system...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon authored today an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal highlighting the public safety threat posed by contraband cellphones in prisons entitled, “Let States Jam Prison Cellphones." U.S. Attorney Lydon also announced a series of cases the U.S. Attorney’s Office has prosecuted in federal court to help stop the flow of contraband cellphones into state prisons and punish those who use them to harm the public.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington - On March 21, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued an administrative complaint to Calvin Plummer doing business as J&J Cattle and J-J Cattle (Plummer), Sayre, Okla., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
