News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on February 5, 2014, Matthew Merritt, Jr., 82, of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he engaged in a scheme to defraud a health care program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Joshua Hayworth, 23, and Timothy E. Chudley, 35, both of Lenoir City, Tenn., were charged on Feb. 5, 2014, with federal Hobbs Act violations for their roles in the Jan. 30, 2014, robbery of a Lenoir City Burger King restaurant.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) held a business meeting to review the Postal Reform Act of 2014, legislation sponsored by Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). At the meeting, committee members voted 9 to 1 to favorably report the legislation to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: In El Paso, a federal grand jury has returned a 65-count indictment charging four individuals and two companies in connection with an estimated $7.3 million Health Care related fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman; Janice M. Flores, Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - The former Chief Financial Officer for Dr. Tariq Mahmood’s Texas hospitals has been charged with health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on February 5, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, JOHN OWEN HOBBS, JR., 31, of the Box Elder, was sentenced to a term of 18 months probation, $8,657 restitution, and a special assessment of $100.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today applauded the bipartisan agreement reached by the Energy and Commerce Committee, House Committee on Ways and Means, and Senate Finance Committee in the ongoing effort to repeal and replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula. Rep. Michael...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Dale Matthews Clar (46, Apopka) guilty of two counts of bank robbery with assault and two counts of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Clar faces a maximum penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Christian Gonzalez, 35, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 21 months in prison for aiding and abetting the making of false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today applauded the bipartisan agreement reached by the Energy and Commerce Committee, House Committee on Ways and Means, and Senate Finance Committee in the ongoing effort to repeal and replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula. Rep. Michael...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the inability to process appeals of errors in the applications of those applying for and obtaining health care coverage through the health care law’s...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: A special panel of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee focusing on public-private partnerships will hold a roundtable policy discussion next week on case studies in public-private partnerships (P3s).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 6, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in New Haven today found New Haven residents RICHARD ANDERSON, also known as “Mayut"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used his Computer and the Internet to Download and Save Approximately 600 Child Pornography Files.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Roger L. Baeza, 32, of Jal, N.M., was sentenced earlier today to sixty-one months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on securities fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Baeza also was ordered to pay $501,927.10 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Florida man was charged today with trafficking in counterfeit electronic engine control devices manufactured and marketed by a Southern California company for use in modified Honda and Acura vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man, previously convicted of manufacturing a controlled substance pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Alan Keith Philpott, 46, pleaded guilty to possessing 26 firearms in spite of his status as a convicted felon. Philpott offered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Hallettsville resident James Leland Copeland, 42, has been sentenced to a significant term of federal imprisonment for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Copeland pleaded guilty on May 10, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: $30 Million “FOCUS" Program Supports 12 Projects that Develop Cost-Effective Solar Energy
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edman Ho, 28, of Timmins, Ontario, who was convicted of conspiracy to import 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) into the United States from Canada, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
