News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Three individuals involved in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine were sentenced on Nov. 6, 2013, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Timothy Dunbar, 42 of Erwin, Tenn., was sentenced to 84 months prison. Darren Hensley, 27 of Erwin, Tenn., was sentenced to 75 months in prison. Nathaniel Effler, 23, of Erwin, Tenn., was sentenced to 60 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A LaSalle County physician was taken into federal custody this morning after being indicted on federal charges alleging that he illegally dispensed prescription narcotics to three patients in 2012 and 2013. The defendant, Dr. CONSTANTINO PERALES, was charged with 17 counts of illegally dispensing Oxycodone and/or Alprazolam in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Wednesday and made public today.
By State Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committeeevents...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Grain Valley, Mo., man who previously operated a payroll services company has pleaded guilty in federal court to failing to pay employment taxes on behalf of his clients, and instead stealing those funds for himself.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the president’s comments on his repeated promise to Americans that if they like their health plan, they will be able to keep it “no matter what." During an interview late Thursday, President Obama was asked...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Nov. 11, 2013. The committee will convene eight hearings as part of its ongoing pursuit of policies that create jobs, modernize outdated regulations for the innovation era, and protect community and state based initiatives.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Press Conference in Los Angeles to Address Environmental Injustice Occurring in University Park November 8, 2013 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) I have met with residents of University Park about an environmental injustice they have been living with in their community. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field Office; announced that on Thursday, November 7, 2013, United States District Judge J. Leon Holmes sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment against Dino Bouterse, a citizen of Suriname who held himself out as Commander...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - David Joe Cano, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 87 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,795,125 in restitution for his nearly two-year role in a scheme to launder the proceeds of mortgage fraud. Judge Fitzwater ordered Cano, who, according...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JIAN MI, 39, a citizen of China and a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one year of probation for lying to federal agents investigating the theft of trade secrets from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Stephen Tanner, age 35, formerly of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Tanner to 12 months and 1 day in prison. After his release from prison Tanner will begin a 5 year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: HELMERICH & PAYNE INTERNATIONAL DRILLING COMPANY (“H&PIDC"), a corporation headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty today before the Honorable Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan to one count of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1018 which charged the drilling company with knowingly...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that on November 7, 2013, Michael James Allison, age 48, of Marshalltown, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison based on his earlier guilty plea to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud his employer through the...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: Yesterday, you went on national television and made extremely serious allegations against U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, essentially accusing them of lying to the American people about the Healthcare.gov website. You then used these...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Nov. 11, 2013. The committee will convene eight hearings as part of its ongoing pursuit of policies that create jobs, modernize outdated regulations for the innovation era, and protect community and state based initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of a fourteen count indictment charging Deangelo Parker with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each of the seven counts of wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 38-year-old Longview, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC) Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment against Dino Bouterse, a citizen of Suriname who held himself out...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the president’s comments on his repeated promise to Americans that if they like their health plan, they will be able to keep it “no matter what." During an interview late Thursday, President Obama was asked...
