MIAMI, Florida, May 29 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: Yoelvis Denis Hernandez, a/k/a "Guajiro," 42, was arrested yesterday in Del Rio, Texas, on a South Florida indictment charging him with stealing 192 U.S. government-owned medical ventilators worth about three million dollars. According to court documents, the ventilators were heading to a COVID-19 intensive care facility in El Salvado  more

MIAMI, Florida, May 29 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: Two Bolivian nationals and three United States citizens were arrested last week in Florida and Georgia on criminal charges related to their alleged roles in a bribery and money laundering scheme. The former Minister of the Government of Bolivia and another former Bolivian official are accused of receiving bribes paid by a U.S. company  more

MIAMI, Florida, May 29 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: A Georgia man was sentenced yesterday to over 11 years in federal prison for defrauding Tricare of approximately $12 million through a South Florida compounding pharmacy fraud scheme. Tricare is the health care benefit program covering military personnel and their dependents. According to court documents, 51-year-old Erik Santos and   more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: A Florida man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud. Alberto Orian Gonzalez-Delgado, 46, of Miami, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud on March 4. Gonzalez-Delgado is the last remaining defendant in this case to be sentenced. Eduardo Rubal, 41, of Miami, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit   more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- President Biden issued the following statement on May 28, 2021, on the rise of anti-Semitic attacks: * * * In the last weeks, our nation has seen a series of anti-Semitic attacks, targeting and terrorizing American Jews. We have seen a brick thrown through window of a Jewish-owned business in Manhattan, a swastika carved into the door of a synagogue in Salt Lake City, families threatened outside a restaurant in Los Angeles, and museums in Florida and Alaska, dedicated to  more