News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Shiraz Malik, 36, a Pakistani national residing in Warsaw, Poland, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and listed chemicals, conspiring to import controlled substances and ephedrine into the United States, and conspiring to launder money, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A southwest suburban physician was arrested yesterday on federal charges for allegedly conspiring to illegally dispense a prescription medication and health care fraud, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Sathish Narayanappa Babu, the owner of Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., allegedly conspired to illegally dispense oxycodone and fraudulently billed Medicare for services he purportedly provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was charged today with the armed robbery of a New Bedford credit union.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on the FCC’s response to the committee’s Dec. 10, 2013, letter regarding the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - LaQuanta Clayton, a resident of Montgomery, Ala., and a former bank teller employed by the Community Bank and Trust, was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2014 to serve 21 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for participating in a fraudulent tax refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama. Clayton previously pleaded guilty to theft of government property in July 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of criminal contempt of court, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Wichita man was indicted today on a federal charge of attempting to rob a Dollar General store, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio today, 20-year-old Simon Robert Barron, a former reserve U.S. Airman temporarily assigned to Laughlin Air Force Base, pleaded guilty federal charges of stealing Government property and burglary of a pharmacy announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Committee leaders yesterday called on the administration to withdraw its proposed changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: [Thank you, Gov Hickenlooper] I would like to thank the organizers of today’s events, including event Chair Tamra Farah, and the many representatives of law enforcement who are here today and committed to fighting human trafficking, ranging from Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, to key federal law enforcement officials, elected officials and and members of victim communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wallace D. Peace, 39, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $8,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Sheldon Kennedy, age 26, of Lincoln, Nebraska was charged by complaint on charges arising from the sale of drugs, guns and counterfeit currency on an online site known as Silk Road. The complaint was filed on Jan. 31, 2014 and unsealed today after his arrest yesterday in Miami, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in Minneapolis, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on the FCC’s response to the committee’s Dec. 10, 2013, letter regarding the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last week warned attendees at the annual winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) that the reliability of the nation’s electric grid could suffer unless federal policymakers pay greater attention to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announces the recent unsealing of a bill of information charging JONATHAN JOHNSON, age 27, of Abita Springs with Operating a Child Exploitation Enterprise in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(g).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Lawrence Eppelbaum has been sentenced to 50 months in prison and fined $3.5 million following his trial conviction on health care fraud, tax fraud and money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER BUTLER, 55, to 240 months imprisonment, followed by a life-term of supervised release and he is required to register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: CITY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson, Ottawa County Prosecutor Ronald J. Frantz, and ATF Special Agent in Charge, Steven Bogdalek joined U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles in announcing that Joseph Jerry Sweet, age 33, and Ronald Patrick Cook, age 28, both from the Grand Haven ...
