LEXINGTON, Kentucky, May 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Carlton S. Shier IV, issued the following news release: Two Kentucky-based businesses involved in performing urine drug tests for the family court system have agreed to collectively pay $1,740,620 to resolve civil allegations that they improperly billed those tests to Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid. Blue Waters Assessment and Testing Services, LLC ("BATS") is a Lexington-based business that provides services  more

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, May 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Carlton S. Shier IV, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: A Lexington man, Craig Dupree Robertson, 34, was sentenced on Monday to 490 months in federal prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves for his role in a large-scale methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents, from October 2020 until September 2021, Robertson and his co-defendants conspired t  more

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, May 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Carlton S. Shier IV, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: A Lexington investment advisor and attorney, Douglas Hawkins, was sentenced to 120 months in prison Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for investment advisor fraud, securities fraud, and two counts of mail fraud. According to the evidence at trial, while operating as an investment advisor, Hawkins encouraged his clients to in  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The White House issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and ordered Federal aid to supplement Commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides from February 15 to February 20, 2023. Federal funding is available to Commonwealth and eligible local governments and certain private  more