News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL, LLC, AND OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL SOUTH, LLC, have agreed to pay $2,800,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicaid, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William McSwain announced today that Jerry Zweitzig, 71, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania was charged by Indictment with multiple counts of child exploitation offenses, including enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct and possession of child pornography, according to federal authorities. The defendant is the former pastor of Horsham Bible Church on Upland Avenue in Horsham.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two men from Nicaragua charged with Illegal Reentry After Deportation pled guilty and were sentenced on May 28, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: A long-time Seminole, Texas drug dealer was sentenced today to 31 years and 10 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Last month, the park began a pavement preservation project on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Chief Mountain Road, a portion of Camas Road, a portion of the Many Glacier Road near Swiftcurrent Motor Inn, and in parking lots and other smaller roads throughout the park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EUGENE CASTELLE, a/k/a “Boobsie," was found guilty of conspiracy to commit racketeering and operation of an illegal gambling business following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Ryan Cotton, 37, of Manatee County, was sentenced to 13 years and four months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and fentanyl. Cotton had pleaded guilty on Feb. 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EUGENE CASTELLE, a/k/a “Boobsie," was found guilty of conspiracy to commit racketeering and operation of an illegal gambling business following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chairman, appeared on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom" Friday to discuss the continued crisis at the southwest border and the White House’s announcement of a possible 5% tariff on Mexican goods.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 48-year-old Mexican national illegally living in the Beaumont, Texas area, has been sentenced to prison for federal immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has convicted Rashid Iman Turner (32, Ft. Myers) for his involvement in a string of armed robberies of banks and retail stores. Following a seven-day trial, the jury found Turner guilty of one count of conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Gettysburg, PA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 992,025 visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site in 2018 spent $64 million in communities near the two parks. That spending supported 812 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $87.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Nicholace Cane Thomas, 23, and Donald Eugene Shuck, 33, both of Post Falls, were sentenced for theft of a firearm that was later used by Johnathan Renfro to murder Coeur d’Alene Police Sergeant Greg Moore, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charles Chavez, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., appeared in federal court today on a criminal complaint charging him with two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today $500,000 in grants to support 13 projects, which will help identify and nominate state, tribal, and local sites for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The NPS’ Underrepresented Community Grant Program helps fund projects such as surveys and inventories of historic properties, and assists communities currently underrepresented in the National Register with developing their nominations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Four Defendants Sentenced to 188 Months in Federal Prison in Separate Domestic Violence Related Cases.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska -The Bureau of Land Management Anchorage Field Office is seeking public comments on a Draft Environmental Assessment of a proposed groundwater monitoring well to be drilled on the BLM Campbell Tract. The comment deadline is June 14, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 29, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against a woman allegedly involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident in the Legend Lake area of the Menominee Indian Reservation. The...
By USDA Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on May 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued an administrative complaint against Mitchell Lee Barthel (Barthel), doing business as Rock’n M Cattle, of Perham, Minn., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Catherine Bruno Named Assistant Director of the Office of Integrity and Compliance.
