News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced thatEdozie Chukwudinma Okereke, 57, of Shreveport, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. to 21 months in federal prison with three years supervised release for health care fraud. Okereke was also ordered to pay $679,836 in restitution to Medicare.
By DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: It's not reruns of "The Jetsons", but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture-cathodoluminescence-to image nanoscale features. Combining the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Elias Fidel Vega Jr., 22, of Laredo, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for multiple firearms convictions, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Vega pleaded guilty Nov. 13, 2012.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Two Co-Defendants Receive Prison Sentences Of 25 And 30 Years.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Dean Heller (R.-Nev.) issued the following statements in response to a federal court's determination that government officials conspired to deprive E. Wayne Hage and his family of essential water rights needed to conduct cattle grazing.
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Canon City, Colo. - The Royal Gorge Fire is now estimated at 3,800 acres with 0% containment. Origin of fire was south of the Royal Gorge Bridge Park, which is west of Canon City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for embezzling more than $88,000 from her employer, Frank Fletcher Ford, in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Beaver County man has been sentenced in federal court to 87 months imprisonment followed by 10 years supervised release on his conviction of possessing and receiving child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bismarck, North Dakota man convicted of Conversion of Farm Service Agency Mortgaged Property was sentenced on June 12, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A37-year-old Mineola, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Al J. Hurley, a former county commissioner in Sumter County, Ga., was sentenced today to 36 months in prison stemming from his acceptance of illicit payments in exchange for his official efforts to secure government contracts for a private contractor, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Middle District of Georgia U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced JAMES WILLIAM PAUL SANDERSON, 35, of Maxton, North Carolina, to 480 months imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: The Big Meadows Fire remained at 400 acres overnight. Firefighters are planning an indirect attack today due to the high number of beetle killed trees that make moving through the area very difficult and dangerous. The plan is to hold the fire east of Trail Ridge Road (Highway 34), west of the Continental Divide, and north of Tonahutu Creek. There are no structures or communities at risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, NH - Raymond Negron, 32, of Manchester, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to four counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone and cocaine, one count of unlawful possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine, the sale of a firearm to a prohibited person, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County doctor practicing internal medicine at Newark Community Health Center, where she is the clinical director, today admitted receiving cash kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals of her patients, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a prior sex offender was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing child pornography with five child victims in the Philippines and for distributing child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, the former owner of a toy company in Edina was sentenced for failing to pay over federal employment taxes. United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Kim Robert Calkins, former co-owner of Princess Soft Toys, Inc., to 12 months and one day in federal prison on one count of failure to pay federal employment taxes. Calkins was charged on Sept. 11, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Sept. 26, 2012.
