News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Six men were charged in federal court in Worcester today with various narcotics, firearms and conspiracy offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced today that Cathy Grossman, the owner and pharmacist-in-charge of Nassau Pharmacy, Inc., will pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that she and Nassau Pharmacy violated the federal and New York False Claims Acts by billing the federal and state governments for prescription drugs that Grossman and her staff never dispensed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that a two-count Bill of Information was filed against defendant MARTHA BUEZO MARTINEZ, age 48, of Kenner, LA, for failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of Title 26, United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma requesting detailed information on Trump Administration changes...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) discussed prescription drug pricing with Bob Herman this morning at an Axios Health Care Q&A. Video of the event can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic handgun and pointing it at a car full of people, including a 4-year-old child, outside a Chicago convenience store.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Field Office and U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran announced today that a 45-year-old Auburn, Washington man who used peer-to-peer software to share more than 2800 images of sexual...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to a global resolution to settle the government’s separate criminal and civil investigations, the Department of Justice announced today. As part of the criminal resolution, Insys will enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government, Insys’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced RICHARDO QUAMAINE TILLERY, 33, of Wilmington to 108 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. TILLERY pled guilty on Aug. 28, 2018, to one count of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Opioid Manufacturer Insys Therapeutics Agrees to Enter $225 Million Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Hull man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a long-running scheme to defraud the company for which he served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider the nomination of Robert Wallace to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior. This position oversees both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - An illegal alien from Guatemala was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for identity theft and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - United States District Judge Greg Stivers has sentenced James W. Gray II to 63 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and restitution of $13,326, for three bank robberies committed in Kentucky and Colorado, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Isaiah Jarrod White, 31, from Eight Mile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court on May 20, 2019, for his participation in a series of armed robberies in the Mobile area. White pled guilty to two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count charging felon in possession of a firearm. White pled guilty to the three charges in February of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into an agreement to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the City of Eastpointe, Michigan. The Department’s lawsuit challenges the method of electing the city council in Eastpointe under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Under this agreement, the city will change its method of electing its city council to ensure compliance with the protections of Section 2.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded Senate confirmation of Heath P. Tarbert to be Chairman and a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; Diane L. Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI; and David Ethredge, Prosecuting Attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial District of Arkansas, announced that fifteen individuals were arrested today...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a roundtable Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program ahead of its expiration in April 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Four defendants were charged today in an indictment alleging they “washed" $1 bills to produce counterfeit $100 bills that they passed during a shopping spree, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
