News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Vice President for Rite Aid, Inc. (Rite Aid), James W. Pilsner, age 61, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment followed by two years on supervised release on Oct. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for perpetrating a vendor kick-back scheme that defrauded the Company out of $5.7 million and for committing tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Rose Asang Gana, also known as Rose Nebangu, 40, of Greenbelt, Maryland, pled guilty on Wednesday, to a federal charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which she caused the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program to be defrauded out of more than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that TRISH CHRISTOPHER, age 35, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged on Oct. 24, 2019 in one-count Indictment for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Daniel Butler (30, Miami) to 54 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Valdosta, Ga. - A Valdosta doctor guilty of defrauding the federal and state Medicare and Medicaid health care programs of more than $2.2 million was sentenced to 97 months in prison today, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. A citizen jury returned a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, is National Prescription Drug “Take Back Day." This event will give the public its 18th opportunity in ten years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - James Lyles, 37, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to serve 195 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 16, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Dominic W. Lanza sentenced Timothy Peter Ray to 27 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms in violation of a court order. Ray previously pleaded guilty to illegally possessing six firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that two foundations, Chronic Disease Fund, Inc. d/b/a Good Days from CDF (“CDF"), and Patient Access Network Foundation (“PANF"), have agreed to pay $2 million and $4 million, respectively, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by enabling pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking the companies’ drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - In Del Rio, a federal grand jury added two new charges of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death to an existing 20-count indictment returned in May against Dr. Alfonso Luevano, announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for making false statements to acquire firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern District of West Virginia and the Southern District of West Virginia and the FBI are teaming up to educate the aging population the mountain state and their families about the dangers of elder fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Vice President for Rite Aid, Inc. (Rite Aid), James W. Pilsner, age 61, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment followed by two years on supervised release on Oct. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for perpetrating a vendor kick-back scheme that defrauded the Company out of $5.7 million and for committing tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today the government will unseal charges against an individual who allegedly conspired to ship thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, via sea and land, through Central America and Mexico to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Richard Leroy Douglas (25, Jacksonville) to 41 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released additional information Thursday on more unlawfully present foreign nationals facing serious criminal offenses in Mecklenburg County, who under the county’s ICE non-cooperation policy would currently be released back into the local community where they would be free to reoffend.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Seattle - A 34-year-old Auburn, Washington man with a lengthy and violent criminal history was sentenced today to 17.5 years in prison for the June 28, 2016 shooting and wounding a law enforcement officer trying to arrest him. RANDY LEE HALL shot a Department of Corrections officer who was working on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell is encouraging residents across the Northern District of West Virginia to safely dispose of unused and unwanted medications and vaping products at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Drug Take Back Day this weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Paola, Kansas, man has been sentenced in federal court for filing a false tax return.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on the Environmental Assessment for the drilling of up to four geothermal exploration wells within the Truckhaven Leasing Area and the northeast edge of the Ocotillo Wells Special Recreation Management Area, for the purpose of identifying a viable geothermal resource.
