News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- An indictment was unsealed today, and arrests made, in a case charging ten members of Ironworkers Local 401 with allegedly participating in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts of extortion, arson, destruction of property, and assault, in order to force construction contractors to hire...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: On Feb. 14, 2014, Virgil L. Easton, of Cutler, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Tire Hill, Pa, has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first three months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) issued the following statement today following the release of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report regarding the minimum wage and its impact on the economy. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the author, along with Congressman George Miller (D-CA), of legislation to raise the minimum wage to $10.10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, U. S. District Judge Michael McShane sentenced Allen Donn Richins, 53, of Trail, Oregon, to 15 years in federal prison for felon in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Dwayne Allen Hardman, 44, of Charleston, W.V., pleaded guilty today to charges of paying bribes to public officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Albert Hood, 49, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to eight years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland B Medical billing company Engage Medical, Inc., its owner Sanjay Puri and three medical practices that were its clients have agreed to pay a total of $3,340,979 to resolve claims that Engage Medical overbilled for nuclear stress tests. Engage Medical and Sanjay Puri have agreed to...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: CALI, Colombia - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnered with the National Police of Colombia (CNP) Feb. 10 to arrest a woman accused of sexually abusing and exploiting two children.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers in Beltsville, Md. have developed a new tool to search for soybean genes that will make soybean plants more productive and better able to resist pests and diseases.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Cumberland MD. - CSX Corporation will be replacing the railroad bridge crossing the Potomac River near historic Lift Lock 74 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal). The work will begin later this month and last approximately 18 months. For the safety and convenience of...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s Report on FCC Process Reform. Released on Friday, the report contains the recommendations of the FCC’s staff level working group, many of which mirror...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Tantillo, II, 32, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Antonio Persinger, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with escape from The Kintock Group Residential Reentry Center, located at 301 E. Erie Avenue, Philadephia, on Nov. 13, 2013, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: New York - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the recent escalation of violence in Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Defendants Admit Transporting More Than 50 Pounds of Meth from California to Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former chief executive officer of PetroTiger Ltd. - a British Virgin Islands oil and gas company with operations in Colombia and offices in New Jersey - today admitted his role in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials and defraud PetroTiger.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Washington - Democratic leadership and the chairs of the committees involved in drafting the Affordable Care Act have joined a brief defending the use of tax credits on federally-run health insurance Marketplaces in the case of Halbig v. Sebelius in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Lyle Plentywounds, Sr., 58, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 18 months in prison for assaulting an officer on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Plentywounds to serve three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 26, 2013.
