News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Des Moines, Iowa, company and two of its employees were indicted by a federal grand jury today for releasing thousands of gallons of gasoline-contaminated water into the city sewer system of Duenweg, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Walgreens (Walgreens), the nation’s largest drug store chain, has agreed to pay $80 million in civil penalties for violations of the Controlled Substances Act, resolving an investigation in which the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the DEA’s Denver Field Division...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chair of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s decision to continue pursuing the widely-panned ‘gainful employment’ regulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nathaniel Pounds, 57, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of bank fraud was sentenced to 51 months in prison and five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raydell Billy, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 81 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on assault and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: In 2011 Slaying of Stepson. -Shooting Followed Argument in Family Home-. WASHINGTON - Ronald Page, 60, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder while armed and other charges in the slaying of his adult stepson, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today. Page...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s continuing efforts to reform the Medicaid program, the Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “The Need for Medicaid Reform: A State Perspective." The hearing coincides with the release of an IDEA...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R. 1126, the Dwight. D. Eisenhower Memorial Completion Act, by voice vote. This legislation, sponsored by Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01), seeks to build consensus around a new Eisenhower Memorial by implementing a new design competition and providing a three year extension of the memorial site designation, which is set to expire this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York man has admitted his role in leading one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former Quincy man, now living in New Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday for carrying out two elaborate tax evasion schemes and theft of federal housing assistance funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) spoke on the Senate floor in support of comprehensive immigration reform. His statement, as prepared for delivery, follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Virginia woman was charged today with making a false declaration to a grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was indicted for one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to tax claims, 12 counts mail fraud, and five counts aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: MILLETTE WOMACK, age 38, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval to conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to a fraudulent application she made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held the second in its ongoing hearing series this Congress on the satellite television law, portions of which are set to sunset on Dec. 31, 2014. Members today examined...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Segura, 36, was sentenced this afternoon to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Segura’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Dianne Handy, 43, of Alexandria, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to four months in prison with five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $101,017 in restitution for defrauding Leglue Nissan. Handy was the office manager for Leglue. The judge also ordered Handy to perform 100 hours of community service and not to gamble or game.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: JAMES W. HENLEY, age 45, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, plead guilty today to an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for failure to register as a sex offender, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that he will be relinquishing his post as United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana effective July 1, 2013. After his resignation, he plans to join a private law practice in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Participated In Scheme That Generated Broker-Dealer More Than $60 Million In Fees For Business Directed By A Senior Venezuelan Banking Official Who Was Allegedly Paid Over $5 Million In Kickback Payments.
