News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant was ordered to pay over $6 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that Louisiana-based home health companies Health Care Options, Inc. and Health Care Options of Lafayette, Inc.; Texas-based Home Care Options Houston, Inc.; and Howard D. Austin, II, have agreed to settle a civil fraud complaint filed under the federal False Claims Act by paying $2.5 million to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting July 4th Attack in Cleveland as Part of Plot to Provide Support to Al Qaeda.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: “Instead of rising to the greatest challenge of our time, once again President Trump is choosing to pander to a backward-looking minority of special interests who either refuse to accept the seriousness of climate change, or who are far too interested in their own profit-making to change course. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Minnesota couple with their roles in a sophisticated fraud scheme that primarily targeted elderly Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write to urge your focus on preventing suicides following public health emergencies or disasters. The Preparedness and All-Hazards Prevention and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019 (PAHPAI, Public Law 116-22) recognizes the important role government can perform in helping families...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Luis Angel Vicente Martir Gudiel, 27, of Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to 11 years in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich announced. Gudiel will be deported after serving his sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: CHICKASAW COUNTY, MS- Natchez Trace Parkway officials will implement a temporary closure of the motor road between mileposts 230.5 and 239.2 (near Houston, MS) starting Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7:30 am. The closure will allow for pavement repair on a nearby bridge at milepost 236 on the Natchez Trace Parkway. During the approximate two-day closure, there will be no access to Witch Dance at milepost 233.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis, and Ranking Member Jackie Walorski today introduced the Family First Transition Act to help states transform their...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 31, 2019, Jhaquil Moore, age 24, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for fentanyl trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Dante Bailey, a/k/a “Gutta," “Almighty," and “Wolf," age 40, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, to life in federal prison. Bailey, the leader of Murdaland Mafia Piru (MMP), a subset of the Bloods gang, was convicted on April 30, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys John Parmley (619) 546-7957 and Caroline Han (619) 546-6968.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the formation of the new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) focusing on deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies and related fraudulent schemes, which undermine competition in government procurement, grant and program funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Milton man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with schemes to use false identification documents to obtain funds from bank customers’ accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Olu Victor Alonge has been sentenced for his role in a multi-year wire fraud scheme that targeted users of American dating websites and caused a total loss of $1,835,279. Six other Nigerian nationals have been charged as part of the conspiracy; three have pled guilty, and Alonge is the first to be sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for conspiring to purchase firearms in Virginia and traffic them to New Jersey for resale on the streets.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE - Agents and officers assigned to the Seattle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST) seized several properties used by members of an international drug trafficking organization, Nov. 1.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
Release: ASPEN and EAGLE, CO- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day, “TSA Express to Hire" event on Wednesday, Nov. 13 to recruit full- and part-time Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to work at Aspen Pitkin County Airport (ASE) and Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE). Starting...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Frank Brothers, 30, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to felony charges of robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Brothers appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Jan. 31, 2020.
