News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A local health care fraud enforcement action has resulted in federal charges against of 25 Southern California defendants for their alleged involvement in healthcare fraud schemes that fraudulently sought over $150 million from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as private insurers and union health benefit plans. Fourteen of those charged in federal court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana are doctors or medical professionals.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Mount Lewis Field Office concluded the Fish Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horse gather near Eureka, Nev., on Sept. 15, 2019. The BLM gathered 558 wild horses and removed 533 excess wild horses from public lands during gather operations that lasted from September 6-15, 2019. In addition, the BLM released back to the range, 13 studs and 7 mares; all the mares released, were treated with the fertility control vaccine PZP-22.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore staff continues to be supported by 22 National Park Service employees from several National Parks across the nation. The public should not enter closed areas of the park until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A correctional officer at a privately-operated federal prison has been indicted on multiple counts of accepting bribes from an inmate and lying about it to investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was convicted today of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: On Sunday, September 29 at 2 p.m. Homestead National Monument of America artist-in-residence Marjorie Savage will present her program “Major Tenney's Glorious Red River Valley Colony: A Tale of Deals, Dynasties, and Disasters on the Minnesota Prairie" in the Homestead National Monument of America Education Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Richmond man with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Myrna Thomas Quarles, 59, of Cotton Valley, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark L. Hornsby for taking more than $1 million from a federal feeding program meant to provide meals to economically disadvantaged children during the summer months when they are not in school.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the letter sent last night by Department of the Interior (DOI) Assistant Secretary Susan Combs in response to a House Committee on Natural Resources bipartisan investigation into taxpayer funded...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of BRYAN BOARDMAN, a/k/a “Boon," 25, to 78 months in prison for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of two individuals.BOARDMAN, who pleaded guilty on April 23, 2019, was sentenced before...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Gabriel Newman, 36, of Dayton was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for possessing an AR-15 assault-style rifle at a home where he was dealing illegal drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Dramatic new surveillance video shows mountain lion P-61 getting chased by a male uncollared lion minutes before he was struck by traffic and killed on the 405 Freeway early on the morning of September 7, National Park Service biologists say.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: A 21 year old woman was found Monday after being reported missing on Saturday evening from Hidden Meadows Camp on the east side of North Cascades National Park, approximately 9 miles from State Route 20. She was found uninjured about ½ mile from camp.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Adan Torres-Nieves, 45, of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for possessing with the intent to distribute nearly four pounds of heroin in Eastern Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jadarius Oshar McCray, 23, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced to nearly 5 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with NOAA, announced a $3 million prize competition to generate innovation in marine energy-powered ocean observing platforms. The Powering the Blue Economy™ Ocean Observing Prize (ttps://americanmadechallenges.org/oceanobserving/) will draw upon American innovators to accelerate technology development through a series of contests to demonstrate marine renewable energy-powered ocean observing platforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA.: Three federal prison inmates have been charged in separate incidents in which correctional officers were injured.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-John William Schantz, 28, of Portland, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison and four years’ supervised release for illegally importing fentanyl from China for the purpose of making and selling counterfeit prescription pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Maurice L. Ross, age 35, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 17, 2019, to 924 months’ imprisonment followed by five years on supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane for unlawful possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and three armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Defendant refused to disclose his identity or nationality.
