News from January 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding Chairman Camp’s discussion draft to reform the tax treatment of financial products...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Four individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with making and subscribing false federal income tax returns, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. The offenses each carry a statutory maximum sentence of up to 3 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution for the amount of the tax loss.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Biopesticides containing beneficial fungi are often grown on grains or other solids, but U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have shown a liquid diet can work better.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Howard Gay, 55, of Hohenwald, Tenn., Thomas Hardiman, 64, of Iron City, Tenn., Walter Wooten, 57, of Leoma, Tenn., and Phillip Heidekker, 66 of Bon Aqua, Tenn., were indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 17, 2013, and were each charged with three counts relating to their participation in a cockfighting enterprise known as the “Shiloh Club" in Hohenwald, Tenn., announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: FortWayne,IN C TheUnited States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Jan. 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Seven Await Sentencing for Conspiracy, Distributing Meth, Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Oakland, Calif. - Naushad Buksh today pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Jose M. Martinez announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) responded to two recent Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reports that detail millions of dollars spent on Medicare services for ineligible beneficiaries, including people who were incarcerated or unlawfully present in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Over $58 Million in Pharmaceuticals Diverted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: - SAN DIEGO - A man who created two medical marijuana dispensaries and a phony board of directors as a front for a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking operation was sentenced today to serve 100 months in federal prison. The defendant was immediately remanded into custody. Joshua John Hester of San Diego...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Richard Lawrence Sandberg, age 35, of Morrison, Colorado, was arrested this morning by Special Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), United States Attorney John Walsh and ATF Special Agent in Charge Andrew Traver announced. Sandberg appeared in U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Reese, 44, of Oxon Hill, Md., has been sentenced to a 4 ½year prison term for robbery and credit card fraud, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - Mario Seymour, 29, of Brownsville, TN, was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: HAMLIN, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin and Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) Commander Chad Napier today met with faculty and students from Duval Middle School and Lincoln County High School in Hamlin, Lincoln County, W.Va. to talk about the dangers and consequences of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Division, and Major Jeff Hubert, Regional Commander, South A Region, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former Orthofix territory manager was sentenced yesterday for defrauding Medicare by forging patient medical records.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Isadore A. Rapasadi & Sons Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Nine people involved in a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of approximately $10 million were charged in two Complaints with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ignacio Morales, a/k/a “Nacho," 49, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government in a case that led to the closure of the Borinquen Federal Credit Union (BFCU). Morales used his position as the bank’s Manager to misuse and embezzle...
