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United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on January 15, 2021 a grand jury indicted PATRICK HUSE, age 40, of Perkinston, Mississippi, for criminal conduct related to oil extraction in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the eight-count Indictment, HUSE…
Today, William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced the indictment of Christopher Hamilton Clemens, 39, of Clarkston, Washington, Hamilton’s West LLC, a Clarkston, Washington business owned and operated by Clemens, and…
The United States Attorney’s Office t0day announced that PDC Energy, Inc., an oil and gas company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, has paid $688,500 to resolve allegations that it drilled, and later operated, an oil and gas well that removed federal minerals without…
The indictment charges two separate-but-related frauds: first, a scheme to defraud investors in a Wyoming natural-gas production venture; second, a conspiracy to pump and dump the common stock of NuTech Energy Resources Inc. The charges in the indictment are only…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced today that Mineral Resources, Inc., an oil and gas company located in Greeley, Colorado, has agreed to a $214,706 payment to resolve allegations that it drilled an oil and gas well in Weld County, Colorado…
A former Fort Peck Tribes law enforcement officer admitted on Monday to defrauding the tribes of $40,000 in a scheme where he proposed a program to help youth but spent the money on himself, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
Willard Wilson White, III, 43, of…
Gas marketer B. Charles Rogers Gas Ltd. (BCR), which operated in the San Juan Basin area of New Mexico and southern Colorado, and its owners Billy Charles Rogers Jr. and Wynon Rogers, of Fort Worth, Texas, have agreed to pay $3.575 million to resolve False Claims Act (…
Sharon Hall, 68, of East Bernstadt, Kentucky was sentenced Wednesday, in United States District Court in London, on convictions for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. United States District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove sentenced Hall to 24 months imprisonment…
Matthew Wathen, 49, of Michigan, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to five years probation for theft of government funds, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michael Graziano, with the U.S. Department of the…
The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Bob Troyer, today announces the recovery of $600,000 as settlement of allegations that Great Western Drilling Corporation ("GWD") violated the federal False Claims Act by failing to pay money owed on natural gas…