News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas, NV - A Las Vegas cardiology practice has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle claims alleging that it referred patients for genetic testing in exchange for kickbacks paid by the testing companies, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: A second superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Anthony Zottola, Sr., Jason Cummings, Alfred Lopez, Julian Snipe and five previously charged defendants with murder-for-hire conspiracy and related charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Zottola, Sr.’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
Release: HELENA, Mont. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this week began offering full TSA Pre✓® screening benefits to eligible travelers departing Helena Regional Airport (HLN) during peak travel times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas, NV - A Las Vegas cardiology practice has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle claims alleging that it referred patients for genetic testing in exchange for kickbacks paid by the testing companies, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The DOE Savannah River Operations Office and management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) have partnered to foster five small businesses in the Department’s Mentor-Protégé Program.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - For nearly a month, June’s Artist in Residence, comics journalist, author and artist Andy Warner, has been busy talking to people impacted by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption. On June 25, he will present a long-form nonfiction comic at After Dark in the Park at 7 p.m. in the Kīlauea Visitor Center Auditorium. The program is free, but park entrance fees apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Gabriel Zagazeta, 31, of Hendersonville, N.C. was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to 22.5 years for enticing and luring minors into producing child pornography through popular smart phone apps, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray of the Western District of North Carolina. Zagazeta was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Imtiaz Shaikh, 46, of Manchester was sentenced on Monday to 16 months in prison for participating in a wire fraud scheme to defraud the State of New Hampshire out of tobacco excise tax revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Alonzo Harris, 44, of Youngtown, Arizona, was sentenced today to thirty (30) years imprisonment for his conviction for federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ethan Guillen, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to charges stemming from an incident in 2017 where he entered his former girlfriend’s home without permission and planted a bomb underneath her bed.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories continue to house the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the new TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that three felons, prosecuted separately, have been sentenced to prison on gun possession charges. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the sentencing hearings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lakewood father and son who were charged with illegally selling dozens of firearms - including an AR-type rifle and machine guns - as well as ammunition and cocaine to undercover law enforcement agents have been convicted of federal firearms- and narcotics-related offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, June 18, 2019-Higher levels of a customary gut bacteria enhanced by breastfeeding in early infancy were found to be coupled with an improved response to vaccines in infants through two years of age, according to a first-of-its-kind study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their colleagues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas woman who was arrested on a highway in Meade County, Kan., was indicted today on drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Three members of an international drug trafficking organization were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to prison terms ranging from 24-32 months for distributing more than a thousand kilograms of illegal marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. The defendants pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he conspired to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin as part of a conspiracy responsible for distributing significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced LUIS JOEL ROBLES LATORRES, 42, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 162 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Tywon Stephenson, 29, of Niagara Falls, NY, with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and marijuana; maintaining a drug-involved premises; possession of an unregistered...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, today called for a Government Accountability Office review of how the Department...
