News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) today introduced a new version of coal ash legislation in the House of Representatives. H.R 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013, builds on bipartisan, bicameral work from last Congress to set up a state-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the Department of Justice has reached a settlement agreement with the City of New Haven under which the City agrees to implement training and ensure its policies comply with the effective communication...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - James F. Butler, 52, a contractor from Culpeper, Va., was sentenced today to 26 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to an elderly woman he tricked into paying more than $170,000 for home improvements that were not performed, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) today introduced a new version of coal ash legislation in the House of Representatives. H.R 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013, builds on bipartisan, bicameral work from last Congress to set up a state-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lodi, N.J., man was sentenced today in Newark federal court to 292 months in prison for amassing and sharing an extensive photo and video collection of children being sexually abused, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1919 the Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013, by voice vote. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), would enhance the security of the pharmaceutical distribution supply chain for America’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - An indictment that charges five individuals with conspiracy to distribute heroin was unsealed this afternoon upon initial court appearances of three of the defendants in custody: Monta Y. Anderson, 35; Diondre P. Harris, 23; and, Walter Nealy IV, 36, made their initial appearance in federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1919 the Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013, by voice vote. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), would enhance the security of the pharmaceutical distribution supply chain for America’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Washington- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today named Kara Getz as Tax Counsel for the committee where she will work on taxation and pension issues.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: The Deerwood Ranch, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) first wild horse ecosanctuary, is offering tours this summer.Owners Rich and Jana Wilson will drive interested people around their ranch to view horses on Friday and Saturday beginning June 28 and running through August 31. They can take a minimum...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Four men from California and five men from West Michigan have been sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a multi-state drug conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Cruz, 32, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 120 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Judge Conner further ordered Cruz to pay a $1,100 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Luis Alberto Hernandez-Garcia, an undocumented alien from Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions related to a large drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Hernandez-Garcia, 33, pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute approximately 212 kilograms of cocaine and approximately 519 kilograms of marijuana on Nov. 29, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Methamphetamine Lab Caused Fire at House Occupied by Sleeping Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against Eugene Goldman, M.D., 55, of Philadelphia, on one count of conspiring to violate the anti-kickback statute and four counts of violating the anti-kickback statute in relation to his role in a kickback scheme arising from his employment as the Medical Director at Home Care Hospice Inc. (HCH). U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo Robreno scheduled a sentencing hearing for September 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Derek Maltz, the Special Operations Division Special Agent-in-Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced the unsealing of charges against SAMUEL ANTONIO PINEDO-RUEDA, SOLOMON...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Juneau resident was sentenced in Juneau to federal prison for drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Defendant Has Four Prior Drug Convictions And Previous Deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Hank Quimby, 35, of Lake Worth, Florida, pled guilty in federal district court on May 31, 2013. The charge arose out of a telemarketing scam which operated in Palm Beach County, Florida that bilked...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General for New England, William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and Kimberly...
