News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A German national who managed a series of hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging that he oversaw a stock manipulation scheme designed to “pump up" the reported returns of his hedge funds, while self-dealing for his own benefit to the detriment of the funds, in a fraud that caused investors to loss approximately $200 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Date: March 20, 2013. Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. LEXINGTON, Ky.) - The owner of pain clinics in Georgetown and Dry Ridge, Kentucky, previously indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering offenses, was arraigned March 19th, 2013, on additional federal charges. According...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved by a voice vote two bipartisan bills designed to improve the federal government’s management of information technology procurement and information security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 20, 2013, a federal jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, at Knoxville, found James E. Beavers and Beverly S. Beavers, each guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States and three counts of filing false claims for tax refunds. After the jury’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the role and progress of the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
Release: The House Agriculture Committee held a business meeting to consider several amendments to Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that in Waco, Dr. Bola Elemuren, a family practitioner d/b/a the Family Medicine Clinic (FMC) in Harker Heights, TX, along with her husband and office manager, John Ogunmuyiwa, have agreed to pay $430,000 to settle allegations of federal False Claims Act/Health Care Fraud violations involving the submission of false claims for payment to the TRICARE, Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Forest Service announced that Secure Rural School (SRS) payments, which went out to counties in January, will be subjected to sequestration cuts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent its 2012 annual report to Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A Queens doctor was arrested this morning pursuant to a complaint charging him in federal court in Long Island with distribution of oxycodone, a highly-addictive prescription medicine used to treat severe pain. Dr. Gracia L. Mayard is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the February jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 236,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate for February decreased to 7.7 percent.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Even though the calendar says Spring has arrived, most of Mount Rainier National Park is still covered in deep winter snow. Paradise currently has 167 inches of snow on the ground. Although it may be late June, mid-July, or even early August before the last remnants of snow finally leave the slopes of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former New Jersey-based operator of Suarez Investment and Development LLC was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that bilked victims out of $1 million through fraudulent investment schemes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers tested 122 laser pointers and found that nearly 90 percent of green pointers and about 44 percent of red pointers tested were out of compliance with federal safety regulations. The NIST test apparatus was designed so that it can be replicated easily by other institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jeremy Lasane, 25, of Cordova, TN, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for stealing government funds through the filing of false income tax returns and identity theft, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Jermain R. Stevenson, age 22, of Toledo, Ohio, with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Evasion Resulted in Tax Loss of More Than $1 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Bradford, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 150 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of$2,887.42 on his conviction of violating federal arson laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: GLENN ALLEN KIRKHAM, 34, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pled guilty to making a threat to commit violence in Casper, Wyoming, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Cost overruns and schedule slips of the Department of Energy's major construction projects must be addressed.
