News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that the crime rates in Monroe have dropped in the wake of collaborative efforts to reduce violent crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: As you know, non-profit hospitals are integral to their communities. They provide care to patients most in need, and because of their key role they do not pay the same taxes as for?profit hospitals. Congress determined that to qualify for this tax-exempt status, non?profit...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Skyline Urology to Pay $1.85 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Medicare Overbilling.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that PhysioHealth Inc. and its wholly owned company Dynamic Therapy Services, LLC have agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations that it billed TRICARE for unallowable physical therapy services provided by non-authorized providers, including physical therapy assistants at clinics in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Douglas Bedell, age 56, of Williamstown, Vermont, has been indicted and detained on a federal firearms charge. At his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Feb. 22, 2019, Bedell pleaded not guilty and was ordered detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service pending disposition of the charge. Bedell was also ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Nikko Adolfo Perez, 26, of Atwater, pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former NASA contractor was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for hacking into the email, social media accounts and computers of women he knew and then using the information, including nude photographs of the women, to anonymously threaten and harass them for additional explicit pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Skyline Urology has agreed to pay the United States $1,850,000 to resolve claims under the False Claims Act alleging that Skyline submitted false claims to Medicare by billing for evaluation and management (E&M) services that were not eligible for reimbursement. Skyline provides...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Nikko Adolfo Perez, 26, of Atwater, pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for exploiting his status as a police officer to engage in the unlicensed sale of more than 100 firearms and for making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: When people living in the Alaska Native community of Buckland, population 425, visit the local Native store, they may see price tags of $46 attached to laundry soap and $26 for a quart of oil. When they hit the gas pump, they can expect to spend around $8 on each gallon. When everyday items like this cost so much, it’s no wonder reducing expenses is a priority for Buckland and the surrounding villages in the Northwest Arctic region of Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A South Point, Ohio man who was caught selling methamphetamine in Huntington last year pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jose Cisneros, 28, entered a guilty plea to distributing methamphetamine in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that WILLIAM SCALZI, 61, of Durham, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a tax offense related to his filing of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Maximiliano Farias Martinez, 49, a Mexican national, was sentenced today to five years and 10 months in prison for conspiring to cultivate marijuana on public land, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STIVEN SIRI-REYNOSO was sentenced today to life plus five years in prison for his role in the June 11, 2016, murder of Jessica White. Ms. White, 28, was killed by a stray bullet while sitting next to her...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Jemone Lawrence Walker (33, Jacksonville) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found Walker guilty on June 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - A Clay County man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Timothy Fields, 40, of Procious, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms. The investigation was conducted by the Jackson County Probation Office, Clay County Sheriff’s Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - James Philip Lucero was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for the unpermitted discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States, including wetlands, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Special Agent in Charge Jay M. Green, Federal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will kick off BLM Wyoming’s 2019 adoption schedule with an event March 15-16, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The BLM will offer approximately 60 wild horses during this adoption, including mares, geldings and weanlings. The horses were gathered in 2018 in the Green Mountain and Stewart Creek herd management areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn accountant pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to assisting a multi-year mortgage fraud scheme by creating fraudulent tax returns and submitting fraudulent letters to lenders.
