News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A pharmacist has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for substituting a cheaper drug imported from China for the iron sucrose that the Federal Drug Administration has approved for kidney dialysis patients, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. He also was ordered to pay restitution of $848,504 and a $25,000 criminal fine, in addition to forfeiting $425,000 in cash.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Friday, Nov. 15 at the Dolores Public Lands Center,29211 Hwy. 184, Dolores, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Oct. 31, 2013, William Dale Sidener, 31, of Ramsey, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging that he engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud. Sentencing has been set...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: The operator of a human resource company was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to health care fraud and filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUCIANO FLORES JIMINEZ, 46, also known as Roberto Gonzalez-Gonzalez" and “Alberto Torres," was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after he was deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that Clarence Edward Lancaster, 57, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in United States District Court today to one count of bank larceny for stealing an ATM from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho, on July 22, 2012. In that instance, Lancaster...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty Monday to using a device called a credit card skimmer to steal credit card numbers, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On the floor of the U.S. Senate this afternoon, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) welcomed a historic Senate vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, oversaw the bipartisan passage of ENDA in the Committee this July.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. -A Rougemont, North Carolina, man pleaded guilty today in federal court to theft of government property, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that L. W. Sales Inc., Groton, S.D., has paid $1,225 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) launched the Committee’s new website today in his ongoing effort to enhance communications and connect with colleagues and the American people about his initiatives, plans, and goals for strengthening U.S. infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, announce that Lorin & Son, LLC, an art dealer based in Winter Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilmerding, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Brock Tyler Beutler, 24, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to seven months in prison for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also sentenced Beutler to serve...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Justin A. Jones, 31, of Memphis, TN was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges that he created false Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents for the purpose of causing the agency to place financial obligations on a third party, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Nashville Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Tempting Dash Sold For Record $1.7 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Settlement is largest amount paid over misbranding and unapproved use of single drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO), announce that Jose Nunez, 23, of Belle Glade, Florida, was sentenced to 228 months (19 years) in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Montgomery, AL - Michael Smith, Matthew Davidson, Joseph Sanders and Scottie Glenn, all former corrections officers with the Alabama Department of Corrections, were sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Myron H. Thompson in connection with the beating death of former inmate...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the successful cloture vote to start debate on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), called on the Senate to pass the bill and end LGBT employment discrimination. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which passed the bill on a bipartisan vote in July.
