News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Defendant Billed Medicare and Private Insurers for Medical Services Not Rendered and Submitted Bills Under Other Doctors’ Names for Higher Reimbursement.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Examining the Federal Role in Improving School Bus...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - As temperatures rise in New York and New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reminds employers to protect their employees from the dangers of working in hot weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn businessman pleaded guilty today to employment tax fraud and illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Join Native flutist and storyteller, Keith Bear, on Saturday, July 20th, as he shares his music and experiences of over two decades playing around the world. He will demonstrate the techniques of Native flute playing through the many flutes he has crafted himself over the years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A former U.S. Air Force service member who admitted using the internet to coerce minor boys into sending him sexually explicit images and videos of themselves was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: A Wood County man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a chase in which he lit and threw bottles of chemicals at law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Birkedahl, 32, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a 2016 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Hal Abrahamson, a podiatrist with offices in Plainview, Long Island, and Rego Park, Queens, was sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to one year and a day in prison for his role in a health care fraud scheme. The Court also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Mark Norman Hanes, 52, of Sterling, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to eight years in prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for his role in a drug and money laundering conspiracy that distributed methamphetamine and heroin throughout Southcentral Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Birkedahl, 32, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Ryan Russell Parks, a/k/a Dinero, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of using the Internet to promote a business enterprise involving prostitution. The verdict was returned late on July 18, 2019, after a four-day trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Southern District of New York requesting information about whether an internal Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting President played...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Anchorage Field Office is seeking public input on an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed Pass Creek Mine Plan of Operation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass.-2019 marks the ninth year that Cape Cod National Seashore’s Bike Safety Committee has hosted bike safety events to provide awareness and reduce the occurrence and severity of bike accidents at the national seashore. This year’s “Bike Safety at the Seashore" events are slated for August 2 at Province Lands Visitor Center in Provincetown and August 9 at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. Both events will run from 10 am to noon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: David C. Hogue, 32, of Granite City, Illinois, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography and destroying evidence of his crimes, U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Chief United States District Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel handed down the 240-month sentence, which includes a 10-year term of supervised release. Hogue pleaded guilty to a three-count superseding indictment late last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Adrian Charleston, 24, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 50 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kirk Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Charleston was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis, and Thomas Gillen, members of the white-supremacist organization formerly known as the Rise Above Movement (RAM), were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville for violence they committed as part of their conspiracy to riot...
