News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Ghanshyam Bhambhani, a former Queens cardiologist, will pay a total of $2 million to settle civil claims that he paid kickbacks to other physicians for referrals of patients insured by Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Program. Under the terms of the settlement, Bhambhani will pay the United States $1,370,294.50. In addition, he will pay the State of New York $629,705.50.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Yesterday afternoon, this week’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," Frank Albert McPhee IV, 33 years-of-age, was located and arrested in the driveway of a residence on Four Rod Road in Rochester, NH. Mr. McPhee was being sought on a couple of outstanding arrest warrants issued by both the...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued the following tribute to Barry Worthington, Executive Director of the U.S. Energy Association...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rene Roy, age 51, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2020, by Chief United States District Court Judge John Jones to one day in prison and two years of supervised release, for committing bank fraud related to fraudulent records he submitted to a credit union for auto loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kristal Rayne Montieth, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Markuetric Stringfellow, 37, of Powder Springs, Georgia, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges filed in the U.S. District Courts in North and South Carolina, for defrauding the states’ Medicaid programs, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Markuetric Stringfellow, 37, of Powder Springs, Georgia, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges filed in the U.S. District Courts in North and South Carolina, for defrauding the states’ Medicaid programs, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) -As the trail system around the Bureau of Land Management’s Holter Lake Campground gets a fresh look, the tent camping area of the recreation site will be closed Aug. 31 to Sept. 11.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - Point Reyes National Seashore is closed until further notice. This closure is in effect due to the Woodward Fire that started the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18. The fire was caused by lightning, and is now estimated to be 2,259 acres in size.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging KYLE WILLIAM BRENIZER, 32, with fraudulently obtaining $841,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended to provide relief for small businesses affected by COVID-19.[1] The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Dustyn Wayne Olmstead, 31, of Vermontville, Michigan, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of children, and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Sentencing before Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a man on carjacking and firearm charges for allegedly stealing a vehicle at gunpoint in Chicago last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Dustyn Wayne Olmstead, 31, of Vermontville, Michigan, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of children, and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Sentencing before Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Wendell Ray Caudle, age 51, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Alameda County resident has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that provided essential services to a fraudulent technical-support company, the Justice Department announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on the Delivering for America Act, Rep. James Comer, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, asserted repeatedly that there are “no delays" occurring throughout the country at postal facilities, claiming over and over again that there is no data or other information proving these delays are real.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $17.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: New Mexico-based Fiore Industries Inc. agreed to pay the United States $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted to the government for payment. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney David L. Anderson and NASA Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Bryan.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Effective immediately, and remaining until further notice, the Superintendent has closed all federal land located within the Crystal Cove boat-in campground under the authority granted by 36 CFR §1.5 due to bear activity. This closure extends along the shoreline ¼ mile in either direction from the established campground.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: US Park Rangers of Fire Island National Seashore are seeking the public's help to find those responsible for several recent acts of vandalism.
