News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago pharmacist was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after being convicted at trial of collecting more than $1.7 million through false claims he submitted to insurance companies for a drug that he never dispensed and stealing the identities of unsuspecting pharmacy customers to make that money, which he used to finance a lavish lifestyle. The defendant, RONALD KIELAR, also created fake documents to make his false insurance claims appear legitimate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bucyrus, Kan., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for embezzling more than $543,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: TERRE HAUTE- Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced that Aeron Curtis Bush, 39, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Terre Haute, pled guilty to possession of 15 homemade contraband weapons, commonly referred to as “shanks" in a prison setting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Carrolltown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first 12 months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering financial support for the development of curricula with standards and standardization content at colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Dan Benishek, M.D. (R-Mich.) introduced H.R. 4077, the “Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2014." This legislation provides a limited antitrust exemption for physicians in negotiations with private insurance companies, giving health care ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced yesterday to four years in federal prison for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Forty-nine-year-old Rickey Ray Rockwell previously pleaded guilty in November 2013 to conspiracy to distribute heroin before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Jacob Drummondo-Farias, age 31, of Waialua, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 324 months imprisonment for being a manager and supervisor of a conspiracy to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: On Thursday, February 27 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will join the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), in holding a hearing entitled, “Exploring Efforts to Strengthen the Teaching Profession." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Rockford physician was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on two counts of making false statements in a bankruptcy case and three counts of mail fraud. The indictment alleges that LYNN Y. ZOIOPOULOS (also known as Lynn Shelton-Zoiopoulos, Lynn Y. Shelton, Lynn Yenko...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: At the 5th ARPA-E Summit, Private-sector Funding, Start-up Companies, and Public Partnerships Highlighted National Harbor, MD -The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) today announced that the Agency’s innovative projects are making great strides towards transforming...
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will hold a hearing TOMORROW at 10 a.m. entitled, “International Wildlife Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY - A Franklin County man, who previously admitted to downloading numerous images of child pornography, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: In December 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first high-throughput DNA sequencer (also known commonly as a "gene sequencer"), an instrument that allows laboratories to quickly and efficiently sequence a person's DNA for genetic testing, medical diagnoses and perhaps one day, customized...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Keith Bowers, aged 59, of Jessieville, Arkansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Clay D. Land on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, to serve 1 year and 1 day in federal prison for transmitting threats in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that BERNARD JAMES HORSTMAN was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2014, to a term of 120 months in federal prison with five years of supervised release to follow, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen.
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, also Subcommittee Ranking Member Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) have introduced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Used Car Dealership As A Front For Meth Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Korbel, California, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
