News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: A federal district judge sentenced a south Florida health care facility owner to 20 years in prison today after being found guilty in the largest health care fraud scheme charged by the U.S. Justice Department. The case involves a decades-long scheme of kickbacks and money laundering in connection with fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid for services deemed medically unnecessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he conspired to smuggle approximately 40 kilograms of cocaine - concealed and suspended in grease - in household products and mailed it to Australia, then laundered up to $3.5 million of the illicit drug proceeds.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fl. - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation initiated in Orlando resulted in the Oct. 23 sentencing of four individuals in the United Kingdom’s Nottingham Crown Court for their roles in an illicit importation conspiracy. This case was investigated jointly by HSI Orlando, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), HSI London and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bristow, Oklahoma, resident GEORGE PHILLIP TIGER, age 69, entered a guilty plea today to Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reminded local residents that they can come to Idaho Falls Regional Airport next week to enroll in TSA Pre✓® when the airport hosts a TSA Pre✓® enrollment center for five days only.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Gennady Podolsky, a dual Ukrainian and American citizen, and managing partner of Vega International Travel Services, Inc., has been arraigned for wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - With the opening of various hunting seasons, Glacier National Park officials remind hunters that no hunting of any kind is permitted within the park. It is the responsibility of hunters to ensure that they are not hunting within park boundaries, even if the boundary is not clearly marked or indicated.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee; David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law; and Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE. Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Wright Brothers National Memorial. Cape Hatteras National Seashore to reopen portions of Frisco Campground on Saturday. With water service restored, at 08:00 am, Saturday 9/14/19, a portion of the Frisco Campground will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Donald Alway Named Assistant Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that today Robert Hosler, 27, Austin, Texas, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for interstate communications and travel to engage in illegal sexual activity and for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Scotlund Haisley, 51, of Montgomery County Maryland, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for his role in an attempted robbery and robbery of a Subway sandwich shop, on two separate instances in January 2019, in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: DAYTON, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Roofs by Antonio LLC - based in Dayton, Ohio - for exposing employees to fall hazards while they installed shingles on a sloped roof in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company faces penalties of $159,118 for repeatedly violating OSHA’s fall protection standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Jason Thody, Interim Chief of the Hartford Police Department, today...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Defendant was Child’s Stepfather. WASHINGTON - A 39-year-old man, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison following a jury trial for sexually abusing his 13-year-old stepdaughter, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu. The man, who is not identified here to protect the privacy...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairman Shelby and Ranking Member Leahy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bristow, Oklahoma, resident GEORGE PHILLIP TIGER, age 69, entered a guilty plea today to Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Taheem Smith, a member of the Bloods street gang, was arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown in federal court in Central Islip on an 11-count indictment charging him with racketeering, murders in aid of racketeering of David Arzu and Janelle Curella, robbery, firearms charges and narcotics possession and distribution. Smith was arrested yesterday and was ordered remanded pending trial by Magistrate Judge Brown.
