News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Southeast Florida Hematology and Oncology Group (SEFHOG), a now-defunct specialty medical practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has agreed to pay $130,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by receiving “upfront discounts" from its specialty pharmaceutical distributor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: BOISE - Isaac Bright, 29, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to the Acting Archivist of the United States, Debra Steidel Wall, raising concerns about Oversight Committee Democrats’ influence and coordination with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Tyler Sando was sentenced on Sept. 28 to three years and five months in prison. Sando, 32, of the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Jemez, pleaded guilty on May 19 to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country and assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer involving physical contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Leo Antoine Smith, 38, of Cross Lanes, was sentenced today to 11 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Sam Wolo, 21, of Philadelphia, PA; Bruno Nyanue, 20, also of Philadelphia, PA; and Gransae Manue, 20, of Clifton Heights, PA; were arrested and charged by Indictment with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Five current or former IRS employees have been charged with schemes to defraud the.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Five Current or Former IRS Employees Charged with Defrauding Federal COVID-19 Relief Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - Thomas G. O’Lear, 58, of North Canton, Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Dan Polster to 15 years in prison and was ordered to pay $1,989,490 in restitution to Medicare, Medicaid and two Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). Polster pronounced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Canadian National Sentenced in Connection with Ransomware Attacks Resulting in the Payment of Tens of Millions of Dollars in Ransoms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Avery Lans (55, Virgin Islands) guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Lans faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 5, 2022. Lans and his conspirator, Wayne Ellsworth Stout, Jr. (35, Miami), were indicted on June 15, 2022. Stout pleaded guilty on Aug. 19, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Derek Lorin Blackhorse was arraigned on Sept. 29 on a three-count indictment charging him with attempted aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Ocala, FL - Robert Lashley, 52, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for attacking a Black man because of his actual and perceived race.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - The United States Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass‑marketing scams that...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 35-year-old non-U.S. citizen illegally residing in Palmview has been ordered to federal prison for obtaining child pornography and being unlawfully present in the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard Lant, 77, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to export to an embargoed country, Iran, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. On Sept. 19, 2022, Dariush Niknia, 59, of Elk Grove, entered a guilty plea to the same charge.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in a trilateral format. Secretary Blinken expressed our appreciation for the positive steps Armenia and ...
