News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Anna Steiner, an anesthesiologist, was arraigned on an indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit health care fraud for her alleged role in a telemedicine scheme to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicare Part D plans and private insurance plans. Steiner was previously arrested on a complaint in April 2019, and was arraigned this morning before United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PATRICK NDAYA KATAMBWA, also known as KASEBA KATAMBWA, 50, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of making a false statement in an immigration document.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Diego man has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on narcotics trafficking charges after getting caught at a Torrance hotel carrying two suitcases filled with 59 pounds of methamphetamine and nearly nine pounds of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: A Mexican citizen unlawfully living in Tulsa pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an alien unlawfully in the United States in possession of a firearm and ammunition and to reentry of a removed alien, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Shawn Thomas Conaway, 45, of Baker City, Oregon, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to 60 months in federal prison for attempted travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging 16 individuals in a violent drug distribution conspiracy operating in the Edmondson Village neighborhood in southwest Baltimore. The indictment was returned on June 20, 2019 and unsealed on July 3, 2019. Fourteen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Rolando Lopez, 58, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - C.J. Spa Group, Inc., a company that operates Spa Palace in the Westlake neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, has entered into a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice to ensure that individuals with disabilities can access the spa’s facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Midland, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on August 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Nebraska woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Given, Jr., of Lost Creek, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for firearms violations, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging 16 individuals in a violent drug distribution conspiracy operating in the Edmondson Village neighborhood in southwest Baltimore. The indictment was returned on June 20, 2019 and unsealed on July 3, 2019. Fourteen ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Wafa Abboud, the former Executive Director of Human First, a not-for-profit organization based in Nassau County, New York, that provides services to developmentally disabled individuals, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all counts of a superseding indictment charging her with embezzling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Substance Abuse Treatment Center Owner Pleads Guilty to $57 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy in Connection with Hospital Pass-Through Billing Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Tomorrow, on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will host a press conference on the treatment of immigrant children at the Southern border. Raskin will be joined by Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, Committee and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Harold A. Rodriguez, 44, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possessing with intent to distribute and distributing cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, tax fraud related to a fraudulent tax shelter, mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The BLM has opened a 15-day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana and North Dakota. The scoping period runs July 10-25, 2019 and is intended to solicit public input on nominated lease parcels for the December lease sale, including the preliminary recommendations and stipulations.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the statement below following Jeffrey Epstein’s federal indictment on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. In 2007, Secretary Acosta, then the...
