News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Deangelo Raheem Roseboro, age 25, of Lancaster, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea in federal court to possession of a firearm by a person who had been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska released a ruling that sets aside and vacates a small land exchange between the Department of the Interior and the King Cove Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Dennis Reinaldo Peralta, 38, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was found guilty of conspiracy to sell methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Four House and Senate Democratic Committee leaders today requested that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson review whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma adhered to federal regulations and ethics requirements regarding the awarding of millions of dollars in questionable CMS contracts to Republican communications consultants for her own benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who allegedly operated an unlicensed investment advisory business out of their parents’ Encino home were arrested today on federal wire fraud charges for an alleged scheme in which they used false account statements to hide multi-million dollar losses of their investors’ funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Joshua "Josh" Lynn Hicks, 32 of Huntingdon, Tennessee appeared before Judge J. Daniel Breen and entered a guilty plea to filing false tax returns. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on new reports that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma directed millions of dollars in contracts to Republican communications consultants...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Four House and Senate Democratic Committee leaders today requested that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson review whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma adhered to federal regulations and ethics requirements regarding the awarding of millions of dollars in questionable CMS contracts to Republican communications consultants for her own benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that CareWell Urgent Care Centers of MA, P.C., CareWell Urgent Care of Rhode Island, P.C., and Urgent Care Centers of New England Inc. (CareWell), the owners and operators of urgent care centers located throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -A federal grand jury sitting in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment against two Louisiana residents, charging each with one count of conspiracy to harbor an alien, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 48 counts of failure to withhold and pay over employment tax...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service plans to implement a fuels reduction project in Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s South Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that nine individuals, including seven law enforcement officers, have been indicted in federal court in South Carolina on visa fraud and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Kenny Appuallo Gregory, 29, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve five years in prison, followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Charges Relate to Defective Residential Dehumidifiers Made in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Fresenius Medical Care Agrees to Pay $231 Million in Criminal Penalties and Disgorgement to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is working with local communities to facilitate the relocation of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park’s (C&O Canal) headquarters from Hagerstown to Williamsport, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of RODNEY KEITH THOMPSON, 53, to 24 months in prison for corruptly soliciting a bribe.THOMPSON, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2018, was sentenced before Judge Susan R. Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (Fresenius), a German-based provider of medical products and services, has agreed to pay approximately $231 million to resolve the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with Fresenius’s participation in various corrupt schemes to obtain business in multiple countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who allegedly operated an unlicensed investment advisory business out of their parents’ Encino home were arrested today on federal wire fraud charges for an alleged scheme in which they used false account statements to hide multi-million dollar losses of their investors’ funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Yesterday, Eddie Guerrero-Narváez and Keyvan Cartagena-Suárez, were found guilty of working together to commit a carjacking against a mother and her two young children, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States Senior Judge Juan M. Pérez-Giménez presided over the trial.
