News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A North Carolina man was arrested today on charges that he brought a loaded handgun and machine gun into a federal facility, and illegally transported the machine gun into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Justin Paul Keener, age 31, of Patuxent River, Maryland, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on each of two counts of abusive sexual contact with a child, to be served concurrently. Judge Hazel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Shelley Griffith, 29, a former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) officer, was sentenced today in Jackson, Mississippi, by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan II of the Southern District of Mississippi to serve 70 months in prison for her role in assaulting an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Rankin County, Mississippi.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Jan. 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Ashville Stockyard Inc. (Ashville Stockyard), Bradley M. Plunkett and Tilda Plunkett of Ashville, Ala., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A North Carolina man was arrested today on charges that he brought a loaded handgun and machine gun into a federal facility, and illegally transported the machine gun into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
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 | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Bank Employee Accepted Nearly $900,000 in Kickbacks for Helping Vendor Secure Approximately $8.4 Million in Contracts with Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
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 Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $750,000 to SecuLore Solutions, an Odenton, Md.-based cybersecurity company, to improve and increase the resiliency of the nation’s emergency communications infrastructure, including Next Generation 911 (NG911) technologies.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Mibo Fresh Foods LLC. The company, operating from Texas, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 14 produce sellers in the amount of $1,861,502 from May 2018 through June 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that ResMed Corp., a manufacturer of durable medical equipment (DME) for sleep apnea and other sleep-related disorders, has agreed to pay more than $37.5 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act for paying kickbacks to DME suppliers, sleep labs, and other health care providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEREMY RODRIGUEZ, 22, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 121 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: OXFORD, Miss.- A Greenville lab operator hired to test water samples to help insure water quality for dozens of towns throughout the Mississippi Delta was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for submitting false statements and lab results to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A doctor and the former owner of a Long Beach hospital was sentenced this morning to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to physicians...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tramaine Brown was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 10 years’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Brown pleaded guilty in June 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 17, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Marketing and Regulatory Programs Under Secretary Greg Ibach announced that USDA has invested $5.7 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity in parts of three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A doctor and the former owner of a Long Beach hospital was sentenced this morning to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to physicians...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
Release: San Antonio, TX, Jan. 17, 2020 - Delivering on his promise to act on feedback from dietary professionals, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced two proposals today that will put local school and summer food service operators back in the driver’s seat of their programs, because they...
