News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Mehul Khatiwala, age 37, of Voorhees, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to three counts of bank fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain loans from Cecil Bank to purchase hotels and a multifamily residential property, resulting in losses of more than $3.5 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - A Wyoming man was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for distributing child pornography after a criminal investigation discovered numerous of child pornography images on his cellphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: While Under Investigation, Arranged to Meet for Sex with Undercover Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that the United States settled allegations that ProHealth Care, Inc. (“ProHealth") discriminated against patients with hearing impairments in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that two pharmaceutical companies - Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Astellas), and Amgen Inc. (Amgen) - have agreed to pay a total of $124.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by illegally paying the Medicare co-pays for their own high-priced drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing associated with oil and gas development on public lands within the Bakersfield Field Office planning...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts State Court Judge and Trial Court Officer were indicted today in federal court in Boston on obstruction of justice charges for preventing an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer from taking custody of an alien defendant, it was announced by ICE leadership in Boston and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Shane Marcus Lloyd, age 30, of Toppenish, Washington, and an enrolled member of the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on November...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Twenty people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to obtain large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues and sell the drugs to customers on the west side of Cleveland.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and University of Wisconsin-Madison Data Now Available in Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a week-long jury trial, a Memphis man was found guilty of robbing two businesses and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during those robberies. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the verdict today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: April 25, 2019 - The U.S. Census Bureau is releasing two products: the official count of state and local governments for the 2017 Census of Governments and the Individual State Descriptions report.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban tax professional has pleaded guilty to preparing and filing more than 160 fraudulent tax returns in an attempt to bilk the Internal Revenue Service out of at least $550,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALTON MCCLINTON, age 54, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty as charged yesterday before United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey to a one-count bill of information with using a facility of interstate commerce with the intent to promote unlawful activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1952(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - The St. Paul Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) conducted an arson for prosecutors course this week, April 23-25, put together by ATF’s National Center for Explosives Training and Research and hosted here at the Bloomington Fire Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis will join the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on April 27th for its 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at thousands of collection sites around the country, including 45 here in Idaho. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Kimberly, Oregon - John Day Fossil Bed National Monument is proud to host classical pianist, Hunter Noack, at the historic James Cant Ranch located in the Sheep Rock District.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting the Soda Fuelbreak Prescribed Burn, in an area about five miles south of Marsing. Crews will be conducting burns between late April and mid-May, depending on weather, fuel and ground conditions.
