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Federal Tipoffs Involving Georgia Newsletter for Friday June 21, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Ga. U.S. Attorney: Mexico-Based Drug Cartel Leaders Indicted and Sanctioned
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: Rodolfo Maldonado-Bustos, a.k.a. "Don Jose," and Euclides Camacho-Goicochea, a.k.a. "El Quilles," who occupy leadership roles in the La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, were charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to import heroin into the United States. Earlier today, the U.S. Departmen  more

Ga. U.S. Attorney: Tapestry Hospice Settles Healthcare Kickback Claims for $1.4 Million
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: Tapestry Hospice of Northwest Georgia, LLC, and its owners and managers, David Lovell, MD, Stephanie Harbour, Ben Harbour, and Andrew Nall (collectively "Tapestry"), agreed to pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by entering into kickback arrangements with medical directors in exchange for referrals of hospice patients to  more

Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at Press Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: As Prepared for Delivery Good morning. I'm here in Atlanta today with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Attorney's Office to announce two important actions we are taking to combat the opioid crisis. First, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned eight targets affiliated with La Nueva Familia Michoacana, a notorious Mexican criminal organization that traffics fentany  more

Secretary Yellen Announces Sanctions Against Top Leaders of Mexico's La Nueva Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel, New Fentanyl Advisory
WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: OFAC sanctions target powerful cartel trafficking fentanyl into the United States FinCEN Advisory provides crucial information to help financial institutions track illicit fentanyl financial flows Today, alongside law enforcement leaders in Atlanta, Georgia, Secretary Yellen announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned eight Mexico-bas  more