News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six months imprisonment, six months of home confinement, three years of supervised release, and forfeiture of $56,000, on his conviction of unlawfully selling drug samples, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders expressed disappointment following today’s announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services on additional cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. Chairman Upton last week joined the House Republican leadership in a letter to President...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING BOATERS. BOULDER CITY, Nev. - Officials have recovered an adult male and are searching for two others at Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Echo Bay. Around 10 p.m. Feb. 20, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Interagency Communication Center received a call from...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DR. ERICK FALCONER was sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home confinement, on charges of making a false statement to federal agents regarding his purchases of misbranded Botox® from a foreign unlicensed drug wholesaler, some of which had counterfeit exterior packaging. Additionally, as part of his plea agreement, Dr. Falconer previously forfeited $20,000 to the Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The former jail administrator of the Clay County Detention Center pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the civil rights of inmates by using his authority to sexually abuse or otherwise deprive the inmates of their constitutional rights, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kidada Savage, 31, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to life in prison, and a consecutive ten-year sentence, for her role in the October 9, 2004, firebombing that killed six members of a federal witness’s family. Savage is the sister of Kaboni Savage who ordered the firebombing and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The leader of a drug ring that brought kilograms of methamphetamine and 10,000 narcotic pills into the Western District of Pennsylvania for sale has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years’ incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chad Pyles, 22, of Arlington, Va., has pled guilty to federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARIUSZ SZTEBOROWSKI, the manager of New Britain-based transportation company Wisla Express, was sentenced...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Next week, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments relating to the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations, and specifically whether EPA’s regulation of GHG emissions from new cars triggered GHG permitting requirements for stationary sources. At the time the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Corrine M. Johnson, 27, of Washington, D.C, was sentenced today to three years in prison on charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol stemming from a traffic fatality that took place in 2012 in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to federal prison on a firearm charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Lee Jay Manning, 28, of Barre, Vermont, was charged in a three-count indictment with robbing a Cumberland Farms convenience store in Barre on Feb. 12, 2014, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951, possessing a firearm in furtherance of that robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), and possessing that firearm as a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -- Specialty pharmaceuticals company Endo Health Solutions, Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Endo), which is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, have agreed to pay $171.9 million to resolve civil allegations of off-label marketing of their adhesive pain patch Lidoderm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Federal agents arrested a Middlesex County, N.J., man today in Mercer County, N.J., for violating the Mann Act, a federal law prohibiting interstate transportation of a minor for illicit purposes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Feb. 24, 2014. The committee will examine how the Obama administration’s attack on the Medicare Part D program will increase costs and reduce choices for seniors. The committee will also...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A Temecula man, who owned and operated sports nutrition businesses in Murrieta and Temecula, was sentenced Feb. 18, 2014, to probation after he pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges for possessing and distributing anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Vernon Rupert, 42, of Alton, Utah, pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to an indictment charging him with three counts of solicitation and use of gifts. Rupert entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, Bureau of Financial Investigations...
