News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Richard F. Moloney, 43, of Milford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to 12½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for interfering with commerce by robbery and bank robbery. The charges arose from the robbery of the County Road Market in Milford and the Bangor Savings Bank branch located in Orono, Maine in June 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) hosted five graduate students from the Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS) program at the University of Arizona, as well as two journalism students and a university employee on a tour of the Tuba...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The former Director of Nursing and Administration of two Houston, Texas-based businesses was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for her role in a $20 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home health services.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Seven Ohio men have pleaded guilty to related crimes regarding child pornography and the sexual abuse of two 10-year-old children.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after Democrats passed six health care bills, with only Democratic support, in committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Mr. Richard D. Fairbanks, Chair, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Capital...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JASON PICK, age 38, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information for wire fraud announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
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: HAMMOND - Eric P. Krieg, age 47, of Munster, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen upon his guilty plea to knowingly making an unregistered destructive device, mailing a destructive device, malicious use of explosive materials, and mailing a threatening communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years of incarceration and three years of supervised release on his convictions for criminal contempt and selling drug paraphernalia, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Democrats rushed H.R. 9, Climate Action Now Act, through committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James P. Kennedy, Jr. today that announced today that two more members of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC), who were convicted of RICO conspiracy, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Thomas Koszuta was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison, and Robert Osborne was sentenced to time served and three years supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, which prevents President Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, was favorably reported out of the Committee by a vote of 29-19...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - A Monroe County man was convicted Tuesday night of a federal gun violation and drug trafficking crimes following a two-day jury trial presided over by Senior US District Judge Neal Biggers. Jerry Lee Quinn, 50, formerly of Aberdeen and West Point, was found guilty of Possession of a Firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The former Director of Nursing and Administration of two Houston, Texas-based businesses was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for her role in a $20 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home health services.
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that on April 3, 2019, in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced aNDREW DAVID PHILLIPS, 28, of Franklinton, North Carolina to 210 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, which prevents President Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, was favorably reported out of the Committee by a vote of 29-19...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kelby Gordon, 32, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distributing narcotics in Washington, D.C. - a prison term that he must serve in addition to the 37-year prison term he recently was given in a murder case.
