News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

News from April 2014


Information On Death Penalty Eligibility for Homicide Charged in 27 Defendant Indictment Case

News Release: On April 16 & 17, 2014, some local media inaccurately reported on one of the penalties associated with a grand jury indictment. This corrects that media misstatement.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s latest health law data release.


Connecticut Man Charged With Coercing A Minor

News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut man was charged today with attempting to engage a 14-year-old in sexual activity.


Committee Leaders Seek Answers from Secretary Sebelius on Manipulation of LIHEAP and SNAP

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.


Information: Federal Court Arraignments

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.


Pawan Kumar Jain Arrested On Charges Of Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Drugs And Health Care Fraud

News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Pawan Kumar Jain, 61, of Las Cruces, N.M., with the unlawful dispensing of opioid pain medication and health care fraud charges, announced by Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s El Paso Field Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.


Committee Leaders Seek Answers from Secretary Sebelius on Manipulation of LIHEAP and SNAP

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.


News Release: Hammond, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced that Steven Borchert was sentenced to 51 months of imprisonment and 1 year of supervised release after being found guilty of filing nine false income tax returns for the years 2001 - 2009.


Committee Leaders Seek Answers from Secretary Sebelius on Manipulation of LIHEAP and SNAP

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s latest health law data release.


News Release: A repeat sex offender who possessed child pornography was sentenced April 16, 2014, to 18 years in federal prison.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Greenville man was sentenced on April 17, 2014, on one count of Attempt to Access with Intent to View Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, the United States...


News Release: DENVER - Libia Hernandez-Garcia, age 60, of Miami, Florida, formerly of Denver, Colorado, appeared yesterday on charges related to aggravated identity theft and tax fraud, visa fraud and social security fraud, federal authorities announced. Hernandez-Garcia was originally indicted by a federal grand...


Shiprock Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Assault Charges

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dexter Dez, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with two assault offenses. Dez entered his guilty plea without the benefit of any plea agreement.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Baldwin Centeno, 26, of Camden, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for randomly beating a man, near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, who was merely asking for assistance. On June 15, 2012, Centeno and his uncle, Santos Centeno, 47, were standing on 4th Street at National...


Health Care Providers To Pay $1 Million For False Claims, Improper Referrals

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Army Reserve Soldier Agrees to pay $20,000 to Settle Civil Claims of Obtaining Fraudulent Housing Benefits

News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Monique J. Ritz, a reserve soldier with the United States Army from Edmond, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay $20,000 to the United States to settle civil claims related to obtaining fraudulent housing benefits, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Mark Randall Trump, 44, of Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison for defrauding Walker Machinery. Trump was also ordered to pay $367,000 in restitution.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.