News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The United States will receive $4 million in settlement of a lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act against a cardiology practice and a hospital in Jackson, Michigan, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Lamont Pugh,III, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG") and Robert D. Foley, III, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Detroit Field Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will join together tomorrow to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Public Works Administration and highlight the need for greater investment...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Art on the Rim, the 4th annual art show to be held at Crater Lake National Park, is scheduled for July 13th and 14th at the Rim Village Community House from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM both days. The artwork featured was created by the park's recent Artists-in-Residence. The park Artist-in-Residence program...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Willie Earl Culley, of Jackson, was sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. He was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Devese, 22, of Capitol Heights, Md., has pled guilty to charges stemming from an incident in which he abducted his pregnant girlfriend from a gas station, robbed her and then assaulted her, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Former Kinloch Mayor KEITH CONWAY was indicted on federal charges of falsifying employment records while completing his original sentence at a St. Louis halfway house, the Dismas House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: A man who possessed a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced today that two citizens of Mexico have been charged with Fraud and Misuse of Documents in separate indictments.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Committee Passes Bill to Cut Waste in Federal Real Property Management;
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - The National Park Service working in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, intergovernmental agencies and tribal partners in Northern Arizona, will move to Stage 1 fire restrictions starting at 8 a.m., on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Monsoonal weather patterns have moved into the area decreasing fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Johnny L. Wynn, II, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of a sawed off shotgun, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JASON KONIOR, the founder and manager of a number of related business entities in New York City, collectively referred to as “Absolute," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court in connection with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Chillicothe, Mo., woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a wire fraud scheme in which she embezzled nearly $4 million from her employer, Burdg, Dunham & Associates Construction Corp. in Hamilton, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Christopher P. Hill, 54, of Edwardsville, IL, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for knowingly receiving child pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. The one-count indictment charges that from November 2011 to January...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Reps. Sander Levin (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, and George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following joint statement on today’s announcement of the U.S. corporate-led Bangladesh factory safety alliance by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), and Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) today introduced the Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2637).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Hayden woman to more than two years in prison for embezzling from the Warrior bank where she worked, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Roy Sexton.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Even though modern industrial robots are becoming nimbler and more capable, they still need to get a good grip on things-the equivalent of hands that are as agile and dexterous as the human variety.
