News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury found a Texas rheumatologist guilty today for his role in a $325 million health care fraud scheme in which he falsely diagnosed patients with life-long diseases and treated them with toxic medications on the basis of that false diagnosis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: EVANSVILLE - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that John Honnigford, 47, of Evansville, Ind., was sentenced in federal court, by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young, to five years in federal prison, after having previously pleaded guilty to possession of sexually explicit material involving minors.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - Marcos Barajas was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Joseph Price (619) 546-7642 and Dylan Aste (619) 546-7621.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Guilty plea involves one of the largest losses in a deceased payee case in Colorado federal court.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today attended a White House signing ceremony for Phase One of a trade deal between the United States and China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Dean Allen McBaine, 31, of Jefferson City, MO, was sentenced to 60 months in prison following his conviction by a jury in October for one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device. McBaine appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who ordered McBaine to pay restitution in the amount of $34,705.21.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Five men, all associated with the front company “Business World" in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and including Muhammad Kamran Wali (“Kamran"), 41, of Pakistan; Muhammad Ahsan Wali (“Ahsan"), 48, and Haji Wali Muhammad Sheikh (“Haji"), 82, both of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; Ashraf Khan Muhammad...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management approved the Desert Quartzite Solar Project in eastern Riverside County. The Record of Decision authorizes Desert Quartzite, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Solar, to construct, operate, maintain and decommission a 450-megawatt solar photovoltaic project on approximately 3,000 acres of public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darryl Black, 28, of Ferguson, MO, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for his involvement in a multi-defendant conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin. Black appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Lorton man pleaded guilty today to straw purchasing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - More than thirty years after they vanished from the collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, a group of thirty-four stone projectile points, hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand years old, were returned to the museum today by United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Jason Molina.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Beginning Jan. 24 thru April 30, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office will conduct a prescribed burn at the Perea Nature Area on approximately 20 acres of salt cedar and Russian olive tree piles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, woman today admitted participating in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the signing of the phase one trade agreement between the United States and China today. McCaul attended the agreement signing ceremony at the White House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $795,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Corrina Wester, 48, of St. Louis City, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of theft of government funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - To encourage visitation and appreciation for America’s public lands, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it will waive recreation-related visitor’s fees during five 2020 Fee-Free Days. On these five days, recreation-related fees for all visitors to agency-managed public lands across the nation will be waived.
