News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska-In May 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Park Service (NPS) began receiving reports of dead and dying seabirds from the northern Bering and Chukchi seas, including near Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Highlands, N.J. --The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a Call for Nominations for individuals who wish to serve at three-year term as a member of the Gateway National Recreation Area Fort Hancock 21st Century Federal Advisory Committee. The 30-day period for applications will end on Friday, October 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal judge convicted a Richmond man today after a bench trial on the charge of illegally reentering the United States following removal after a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that two Northwest Louisiana residents who owned and ran the Positive Change Counseling Agency LLC were indicted for improperly billing Medicaid for almost $8 million, in addition to paying kickbacks in violation of the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A South Texas doctor has agreed to pay the United States $2,133,959.30 to resolve allegations he fraudulently submitted claims to the Medicare program for medically unnecessary diagnostic tests, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Robert Thomas (also known as Zombie), 33, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - Pursuant to 43 CFR 9212.2, the following acts are prohibited on all public land areas, roads and trails located within and administered by the BLM Ely District Office in Lincoln County, Nevada, effective Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, and concluding Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019:.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of three years and one month (37 months), to be followed by 10 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of materials depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County business owner is named in a federal grand jury indictment unsealed today that charges him with tax evasion for failing to pay to the Internal Revenue Service nearly $30 million in payroll taxes, penalties and interest related to money that had been withheld from the salaries of employees of his various temporary worker companies.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: On September 21 and 22, the National Park Service will sponsor its annual World War II living history weekend at Eisenhower National Historic Site. The public is invited to tour World War II encampments of over 500 living historians portraying Allied and Axis troops. The weekend also features a speaker’s tent where historians will discuss a wide variety of World War II topics. The full schedule of talks and speakers’ biographies are listed below.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged a Huber Heights man for failing to appear with the Bureau of Prisons to begin his 30-month prison sentence for beating a man he believed to be Jewish outside of a Cincinnati restaurant in February 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that a South Florida woman was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for orchestrating a fraud scheme involving “fortune telling.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Eric Clay, 28, Madison, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 18 years in federal prison for robbing two taxicab companies, one while armed, and a gas station. Clay pleaded guilty to these charges on June 5, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a five-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl to customers in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: The prison sentence for one inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, just got a lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth J. Monahan, age 44, of Menands, New York, pled guilty today to one count of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Matthew Laver, age 38, of Souderton, in Montgomery County, PA, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Judge Michael Baylson to multiple counts of distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents joined with various federal partners recently to combat illegal logging through collaborative education. Officials from HSI, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Embassy of Botswana, and U.S. Department of Justice Environmental and Natural Resources Division came together to facilitate an in-depth law enforcement training workshop in Botswana, Aug. 20-22.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Florida resident was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration with a 9 mm handgun loaded with seven bullets, including one in the chamber, at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport checkpoint on Sunday, September 8. The TSA officer who was staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor detected the handgun inside the man’s carry-on bag.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ICYMI: A way to lower drug costs.
