News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Owners of Los Angeles Home Health Agency Sentenced to Prison for Role in Health Care Fraud that Defrauded Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two owners and operators of a home health agency were sentenced to 10 years and 6½ years in federal prison on Monday for their roles in a scheme to bill Medicare for various items and services - including home health services, diagnostic testing, medical procedures and durable medical equipment - that were not medically necessary and/or were not provided.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on the release of U.S. permanent resident, Nizar Zakka, from his wrongful imprisonment in Iran.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: COSMIC-2, a mission of six satellites designed to improve weather forecasts and space weather monitoring, is set to launch no earlier than June 24 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Irvine resident who sold narcotics on one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for illegally distributing drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ARTIE DUSTIN POPE, 28, of Moore, has been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm as part of that drug trafficking, announced Timothy J. Downing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on theConstitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Johann Gary Barnes, 47, of Plain Dealing, Louisiana, was sentenced Monday to six and a half years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for leading a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Anderson, Missouri, man was indicted by a grand jury today for possessing more than a kilogram of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Dustin Joseph Albini, 36, of West Sacramento, today to five and a half years in prison and five years of supervised release, for assaulting a federal officer and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Leon R. Williams, 39, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, made the following statement on the House floor in support of H.Res. 430, authorizing committee chairs to go directly to court to fully enforce their subpoenas without a full House vote.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: NEW CASTLE, DE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Delaware, manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The company faces $262,548 in penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: No matter how you cut it, there are a lot of vulnerable children in our society. There are children whose parents do not live together and who have substantially-strained relationships. There are children who are parentless; children whose parents struggle with mental health challenges and addition; children who lost one or both parents to incarceration; and children who cannot live safely with their parents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Indiana man and woman who were stopped on Interstate 44 en route to Chicago, Illinois, were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - The National Park Service is in the final stages of a planning process to allow bicycle use on a new trail connection between the park and property owned by the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The new.65-mile trail would provide access to an extensive network of recreational trails in the City’s Northwoods Urban Forest Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today Christopher Eric Alexander, 42, of Valdese, N.C. to 90 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for receiving child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Alexander to register as a sex offender following his release from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Lake Powell boaters are enjoying higher lake levels as last winter’s significant upstream snowpack melts. Water levels are now rising 6 to 15 inches in a 24 hour period. As a result, the main launch ramp at Bullfrog has sufficient water to cover the old coffer dam and is no longer, “at your own risk." The Antelope Point Marina launch ramp is expected to be open after NPS staff install and adjust marine infrastructure to provide for boater safety and access.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Medical Device Maker ACell Inc. Pleads Guilty and Will Pay $15 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges and Civil False Claims Allegations.
