News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Dr. Farid Fata was charged in a superseding indictment in the Eastern District of Michigan for a health care fraud scheme involving the administration of medically unnecessary drugs, including chemotherapy, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Atlantic County men were arrested today on charges that they participated in a multi-year conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit merchandise, including professional sports teams’ jerseys, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 54-year-old West Lawn, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to one year in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for his role in an Oxycontin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks County in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Irish National Arrested For Passing Fraudulent Documents In Connection With His Sale Of Four Black Rhinoceros Horns For $50,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee who worked as a supervisory engineer at the VA’s campus in East Orange, N.J., today admitted accepting more than $1.2 million in kickback payments in connection with VA contracts awarded to companies with which he had relationships...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chauncee McFarland, 35, and Kenyatta Hubbard, 32, both of Rochester, N.Y., have been charged in a 74-count indictment with conspiring to defraud the United States by submitting false income tax returns, and with submitting false income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s full committee hearing “Benghazi: Where is the State Department Accountability?".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County man has been sentenced in federal court to 252 months of imprisonment, 180 months of which will run concurrent with his state conviction, and 72 months of which will run consecutive to any state sentence, and was ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release on his conviction for production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGON, D. C. - After conducting a rigorous competitive selection process, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, LLC (team includes members comprised of Parent Company Fluor Federal Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia and major subcontractors...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The federal government is not on pace to reduce the number of federal data centers from 3,000 to fewer than 2,000 by 2015, a goal set by a consolidation effort aimed to reduce government waste and save roughly $3 billion in taxpayer dollars. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tom Coburn...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas leader of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced today in Hammond, Ind., to serve 262 months in prison for racketeering conspiracy, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Capp of the Northern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Shot And Killed A Department Of Defense Employee And Wounded A United States Marine Assigned To The United States Embassy In Niamey, Niger.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael D. Hayden, Jr., age 41, of Tilghman Island, Maryland, was arrested yesterday on charges of witness tampering and retaliation in connection with an investigation of felony Lacey Act violations related to the illegal harvesting of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal jury found Melvin Hubert Holmes (52, Clay County) guilty of production and possession of child pornography. Holmes faces not less than 15 years and up to 30 years in prison on the production charge, and up to 10...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A principal of a Pennsylvania construction company pleaded guilty today to paying bribes to the representative of a general contractor to secure contracts for federally subsidized construction projects in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months on his conviction of false statement under oath in a proceeding or matter related to naturalization and re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 22-year-old man from Idaho Falls, Idaho, who traveled to the District of Columbia and fired at least eight rounds at the White House in November 2011, pled guilty today in federal court to terrorism and weapons offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today asked the Department of Labor (DOL) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide information surrounding a regulatory proposal that was ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Dear Director Burwell: We write to urge that you not authorize the release of any regulations that will create a special carve out which benefits union workers at taxpayers’ expense. We appreciate the Sept. 13, 2013, letter from the Department of the Treasury to U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch which...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. Admitted She Embezzled $462,455.80 From Her Employer. SALT LAKE CITY - Monica Paris, age 31, of South Jordan, who pleaded guilty in February to one count of money laundering, will serve 30 months in federal prison.
