News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: So-called doctor’s office lacked running water, medical equipment; doctor faces up to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on April 22, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, MIKE ALFONS CAMPA, a 54-year-old resident of Yorba Linda, California, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud. Sentencing has been set for August 5, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Suit Alleges Novartis Induced Pharmacies To Switch Thousands Of Transplant Patients To One Of Its Drugs With Kickbacks Disguised As Rebates And Discounts, Resulting In Medicare And Medicaid Paying Tens Of Millions Of Dollars In Kickback-Tainted.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Frederick Young, 46, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and five years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of New Castle, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita tax preparer has been convicted on charges of filing false federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Rep. John Mica (R-FL), will continue its examination of vacant or underutilized federal real properties with a field hearing held at a vacant, GSA-owned warehouse in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Lafayette/Alexandria/Lake Charles, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley recently visited local colleges within the Western District of Louisiana. On April 9, 2013, U.S. Attorney Finley spoke to the Criminal Justice Society at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the Louisiana College Criminal Law Class on April 16, 2013, and the Juvenile Delinquency Class at McNeese State University on April 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on April 23, 2012, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, MICAH GARRET WALTENBAUGH, a 25-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. WALTENBAUGH was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Dear Speaker Boehner: Tomorrow the Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up H.R. 807, legislation introduced by Rep. Tom McClintock to prepare for a U.S. government default by prioritizing debt payments. The bill would essentially legislate who gets paid and who doesn’t in a default. It is our...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Congress must work to improve the foster care system, connect more foster kids with family members and adoptive parents, and better prepare foster kids for adulthood. Senator Baucus said the Finance Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus announced that he would not seek reelection...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following comment today on his decision to spend the next year and a half focusing on his job as Montana’s senior Senator and Finance Committee Chairman as opposed to re-election. From Chairman Baucus...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Date: April 23, 2013. Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. BAY CITY, Mich. - A Grand Blanc, Michigan resident was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison yesterday after having been found guilty on federal drug trafficking offenses, announced United States Attorney Barbara L.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements, asked the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation to review sexual assault and harassment prevention policies and reporting procedures established by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 23, 2013, Rafael Pena-Campos, 47, Tultepec, Mexico, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patrick A. Conmy on a charge of reentry of deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SEAN SALASEVICIUS, 32, of New Fairfield, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for manufacturing and distributing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that more charges were filed today against two men accused of participating in a murder-for-hire scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) announced that he would not seek re-election...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: A Vermilion man was charged with financial crimes that resulted in nearly 100 clients losing more than $4.4 million over a decade, law enforcement officials said today.
