News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A dual U.S.-Mexican citizen had her initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia Wednesday on charges related to her alleged involvement in five business entities designated by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) as providing material support to the international narcotics trafficking activities of the Mexican narcotics trafficking organization known as the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former owner/operator of a Harrisburg based dental and vision claims processing business, Michael Timothy Buchanan, age 69, currently a resident of Fishers, Indiana, was sentenced to 37 months’...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote.pdf) to Optum, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), warning it to fully comply with the committee’s investigation into skyrocketing insulin prices. Grassley and Wyden wrote that Optum’s production of irrelevant, already publicly available or duplicative documents is not considered responsive to the committee’s request.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Craig A. Cohen, 55, of Blue Bell, PA was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and ordered to pay over $3.4 million in restitution by United States District Court Eduardo C. Robreno for his scheme to steal money from various entities through his work as an attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York shares the public's concerns regarding the impact that this internal dispute within the Cayuga Nation of Indians has on the public safety of all members of our community. My Office, together with the Department of Justice-Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TERRELL POLK was sentenced today to 35 years in prison in connection with his participation in a crack cocaine conspiracy and related firearms charges. As the evidence at trial established, POLK committed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA, was sentenced to federal prison on federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal judge has set a May 27, 2020, hearing for the sentencing of Harcros Chemicals, Inc., and MGP Ingredients Inc., for violating the federal Clean Air Act when a cloud of toxic chlorine gas formed over Atchison, Kan., in 2016, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's oversight hearing on implemenation of the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Good morning and welcome Secretary Azar. Thank you for joining us for this important hearing. I think we all understand that you have been very busy this week with various competing priorities, including a number of hearings here on Capitol Hill. I appreciate you and your staff working with the committee to make your appearance today possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 49-year-old Carrizo Springs resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 300 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brittany Hutcherson, 28, of Lawrenceville, GA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. to transfer of firearms to an out of state resident. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Officers Seized Two Kilos of Heroin, Meth, Marijuana, Multiple Firearms During Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Philip Elvin Riehl, 68, of Bethel Township, Berks County, PA, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to a Ponzi scheme he operated worth approximately $60 million. The fraud targeted members of the Mennonite and Amish religious communities in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, of which the defendant is a member.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, Joshua Drake Howard, a 36-year-old resident of Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced to 140 months in prison for federal drug and firearms related charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Dothan Police Chief Steven Parrish. Following his prison sentence, Howard will be on supervised release for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Trina Health-Wichita NW, LLC, located in Wichita, Kan., and Jack West of Dallas, Texas, one of the company’s principals, agreed to pay the United States $775,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare and TRICARE.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Daniel John Hodges, 25, of Concord, N.C. appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler, and pleaded guilty to unlawful distribution of anabolic steroids.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologists will broadcast on Facebook Live each Tuesday at 11 a.m. MST in March to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the return of wolves to the ecosystem. Speakers will conclude each session by answering questions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Craig A. Cohen, 55, of Blue Bell, PA was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and ordered to pay over $3.4 million in restitution by United States District Court Eduardo C. Robreno for his scheme to steal money from various entities through his work as an attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A dual U.S.-Mexican citizen had her initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia Wednesday on charges related to her alleged involvement in five business entities designated by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) as providing material support to the international narcotics trafficking activities of the Mexican narcotics trafficking organization known as the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
