News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy for Sex Trafficking was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on maternal and infant health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that the United States has filed a federal civil lawsuit against Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc., the Orlando Center for Outpatient Surgery, L.P., and Dr. Patrick T. Hunter, alleging that they falsely billed Medicare and TRICARE...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin announced today that the Middle District of North Carolina collected $3,516,486 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, $2,721,999 was collected in criminal actions and $794,487 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Colin Nuru and restauranteur Nick James Bovis have been charged in a criminal complaint with honest services wire fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to bribe a San Francisco Airport Commissioner, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett of the San Francisco Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Michael Hughes, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted today at trial of two counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, and two counts of using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence arising from two armed robbery and shooting incidents in August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 28, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Wintersville, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Salina man who was charged with posting a threat against the president on social media is now facing child pornography charges, too, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Worked Illegally in United States Using Someone Else’s Name and Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three New Jersey men today admitted their roles in a Passaic County cocaine distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Firearm in a School Zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KS - A grand jury in Wichita returned two indictments today charging federal gun crimes under the Justice Department’s new initiative called Project Guardian, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Kansas City area high school teacher was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for secretly recording pornographic videos of three teenage victims in his bathroom.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with 70 other local and federal law enforcement agencies, arrested seven men in Snohomish County as part of an operation identifying individuals allegedly involved in the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, announced Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Debra Parker of HSI Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Washington, Hackettstown, and Succasunna, New Jersey, and his co-defendant today admitted their roles in a health care conspiracy to bill Medicare and private health insurance companies for medical services fraudulently claimed to have been provided by a licensed medical doctor, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice Files Actions to Stop Telecom Carriers Who Facilitated Hundreds of Millions of Fraudulent Robocalls to American Consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS - "The DEA emergency prohibition of fentanyl analogues expires on February 6 without congressional action. Fentanyl and its analogues are responsible for multiple overdose deaths in West Tennessee. Without action by Congress, my law enforcement partners and I will not have the tools we need to protect families and communities from the onslaught of these extraordinarily dangerous substances.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, KEITH ALAN LUDLUM, 48, of Bladenboro, North Carolina pled guilty to Conspiracy and Embezzlement of Labor Union Assets. At sentencing before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, LUDLUM faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: A man who admitted selling drugs in the Northern District of Iowa was sentenced today to more than 19 ½ years in federal prison.
