News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former chairman of the Woodland Park, N.J., Democratic Committee was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for bribing two individuals he thought were IRS officials to eliminate his tax debt, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Derek Parker, 30, of Gonic, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to four years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Parker pleaded guilty to the offense on Nov. 13, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 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 welcomed the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to scrap the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study. Every Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Watertown Town Councilman and his ex-wife were sentenced yesterday for their roles in marijuana-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies involving hundreds of kilograms of marijuana and millions of dollars of drug proceeds.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 3, 2014. The committee will review the Obama administration’s proposed changes to labeling for generic drugs, examine ways the administration can better manage Medicare to protect seniors, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Chance W. Young, 29, of Fairfield, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of 48 months’ imprisonment for possessing 4 stolen firearms, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of an Atlanta-based hospital was sentenced yesterday for conspiring to sell stolen medical supplies valued at more than $1.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Recco Roger Collins, aged 45, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, to serve nearly eighteen years (210 months) in Federal prison for armed bank robbery by the Honorable W. Louis Sands...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Brad Heard, Sr., aged 57, of Camilla, Georgia, and Brad Heard, Jr., aged 35, of Leesburg, Georgia, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, for bank fraud. Brad...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Neosho, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing more than $4.9 million from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrests of Eliesky Sanchez, 31, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced the indictment of a physician and employee of a former Utica and Fulton area medical practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - An owner of a bankrupt Palatine company that sold refurbished semiconductor-making machinery and the owner of a Pennsylvania company that sold machine tools were indicted for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $190 million from banks and financing companies and, eventually, causing those lenders to lose at least $100 million.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today expressed disbelief regarding the administration’s most recent change to the health care law: providing subsidies for “retroactive" enrollment. The administration announced that all states could pay subsidies to enrollees purchasing health care both on and off the exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom and Special Agent in Charge Michael Kaste of the FBI’s Kansas City Office announced today they are asking for the public’s help in combating fraud and public corruption in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Greenup County, Kentucky, teenager was sentenced to 24 months in prison, after he pleaded guilty this week, in U.S. District Court, to threatening to kill a federal judge and a federal prosecutor, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 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 welcomed the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to scrap the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study. Every Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHOLOE BRIGHT, also known as “Chi-Chi" and “Chello," 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Senior...
