News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office has collected more than $850 million in settlements involving pharmaceutical companies using third-party foundations as instruments for kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bryan Keith Presgraves, II, of Luray, Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Cristian Valencia Mendoza was convicted of Conspiracy to Possess With Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute While on Board a Vessel Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States, following a jury trial in St. Thomas U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Defendants in three separate cases appeared in federal court on meth charges, said United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Van Buren, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways is proposing a temporary closure on the taking, pursuing or releasing of all feral swine within the park. The temporary closure would support interagency efforts to eliminate feral swine in Missouri.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: More information about Indonesia is available on the Indonesia country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: In 2017, almost 50,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. It’s a sad reality that New England as a whole has been particularly hard hit by opioids. In fact, per capita, of the 12 states across the country with the most opioid overdose fatalities, all six of our states make the list. Much of that is due to illicitly produced fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a draft environmental assessment for vegetative treatments to improve wildlife habitat and rangeland and reduce fuels on the approximately 900,000 acres of public lands managed by the Uncompahgre Field Office. The EA considers the environmental effects of a variety of vegetative treatment methods including mechanical, manual, seeding, and fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: MIAMI, FL - Three former co-owners and clinical directors of a group of purported substance abuse treatment centers and sober homes were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud that resulted in an actual loss of more than $3.8 million, and through which the conspirators sought to obtain more than $21 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Angela K. Williams, M.D., 34, of Brentwood, Missouri, pleaded guilty today to one felony charge of fraudulently obtaining oxycodone, a narcotic opioid prescription drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Kenji M. Price, U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii, announced that Moahengi Pakileata, 19, of Honolulu, Hawaii, made his initial appearance in federal court today after a criminal complaint filed on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, charged him with two robberies that interfered with commerce, the use a firearm during of one of the robberies, and a carjacking. A federal magistrate judge ordered him detained pending a detention hearing on January 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: New Haven - U.S. Attorney John H. Durham today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut collected $22,755,127.63 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. $6,357,454.91 was collected in criminal actions and $16,397,672.72 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: A Pennsylvania doctor pleaded guilty today to unlawfully distributing oxycodone to his patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced to six months in prison for illegally accessing the medical records of six veterans, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeffrey Miller, 40, a former Veterans Benefits Administration employee, was also sentenced to one year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former National Sales Director for Insys Therapeutics was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in conspiring to bribe practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Carjacking, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Facing 10 years to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at noon, the House Managers, on behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives, filed with the Secretary of the Senate a Reply Memorandum to the Trial Memorandum filed by President Donald J. Trump in his impeachment trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Egisto Salerno, a medical doctor practicing in San Diego, pleaded guilty to opioid distribution in federal court today, admitting that he signed bogus prescriptions for multiple deceased or incarcerated patients.
