News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that two North Pole men were sentenced to federal prison for orchestrating a sophisticated fraud, identity theft, and mail theft conspiracy involving numerous victims and thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases in Fairbanks and North Pole, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of KRISTOPHER SULLIVAN, a/k/a “Blood Money," 24, for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of two individuals. SULLIVAN entered his guilty plea before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that a federal jury in Kalamazoo found Adam Christopher Collard, 35, and Joseph Alan Collard, 31, both of Eaton Rapids, guilty of multiple child pornography charges. The jury convicted Adam Collard of receiving and possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - The United States has settled two cases against Nurse on Call, a home health agency with locations in Sarasota and Orlando, that allege False Claims Act violations arising from having a medical director approve care for patients without having seen the patients, the alleged payment of kickbacks in the form of a sham medical director agreement, and payments to the spouses of referring physicians.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, 100 days since Micheal Cohen testified before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Committee’s Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Chairman...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on May 13, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) entered into a stipulation agreement with Randy Freeman (Freeman), of Ben Franklin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ricardo Burnette, 54, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 60 months in prison on firearms and narcotics offenses stemming from an investigation in which law enforcement recovered three firearms and numerous types of narcotics, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - The United States has settled two cases against Nurse on Call, a home health agency with locations in Sarasota and Orlando, that allege False Claims Act violations arising from having a medical director approve care for patients without having seen the patients, the alleged payment of kickbacks in the form of a sham medical director agreement, and payments to the spouses of referring physicians.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Dale County, Alabama, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused significant rainfall, wind and flooding as a result of Hurricane Michael, that occurred Oct. 10-11, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Five North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Graduate FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that three men from across the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have been sentenced to prison this week by federal judges for child exploitation offenses in separate cases. Arthur Schlegel, 48 of Roseto, PA was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ANTHONY WHITTLEY, 28, of Parsons, Kansas, and JASMINE BOONE, a/k/a Jasmine Thomas, 28, of Wister, Oklahoma, have pleaded guilty to cattle rustling, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Box Elder man to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release in the assault of his domestic partner on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa -- Eight defendants are facing criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation of a cocaine and marijuana trafficking organization. Criminal complaints unsealed in the United States District Court in Des Moines and United States District Court for Central District...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
Release: Rick Coker. Richard.S.Coker@usda.gov. Lyndsay Cole. Lyndsay.M.Cole@usda.gov. WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the discovery of genetically engineered (GE) wheat plants growing in an unplanted agricultural ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas - in partnership with the Lubbock Police Department and a host of other federal, state, and local law enforcement partners - today launched Project Safe Neighborhoods Lubbock, its third PSN initiative in North Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Hurricane season in the Atlantic has officially begun. Running from June 1 through Nov. 30, this is the time of year the Federal government ramps up its hurricane emergency plans and protocols, working closely with industry and government partners to prepare for - and respond to - any events that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the June 2019 Federal Grand Jury A.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with 18 counts of Wire Fraud and one count of Theft of Government Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Matthew Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 6, 2019, Jose Facio-Santos (age 39), a Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to three felony counts related to drug distribution, illegal firearm possession, and the transportation of a female in interstate...
