News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -Sean Brown, 40, of Nashua, New Hampshire was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to ten years in prison after a jury found him guilty of three counts of unlawful distribution of cocaine base (“crack"), announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the bicameral introduction of trade promotion authority (TPA) legislation...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON - CareFusion Corp. has agreed to pay the government $40.1 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks and promoting its products for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the Justice Department announced today. CareFusion, a California-based medical technology company, develops, manufactures and sells pharmaceutical products, including products sold under the trade name ChloraPrep.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: St. Louis, MO - United States Attorney Richard Callahan announced today that for the fiscal year 2013, his office collected $11,448,830 in criminal and civil actions during the year. Of this amount, $10,113,957 was collected in criminal actions and $1,334,873 was collected in civil actions.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man charged with Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty and was sentenced on January 8, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced today that his office was involved in collecting a total of $701,879,812 in civil and criminal cases and through asset forfeiture in Fiscal Year 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson announced today that 10 defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana in Boone County, Mo.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: A Mansfield man sentenced to more than 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $767,462 in restitution for his role a mortgage fraud scheme which caused approximately $1.3 million in losses to five lending institutions, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Cases Handled Alone Resulted In More Than $22 Million In Civil, Criminal And Forfeiture Actions.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Cheyenne, WY - U.S. Attorney Christopher A. “Kip" Crofts announced today that the District of Wyoming collected $3,712,887 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $657,774 was collected in criminal actions and $3,055,113 was collected in civil actions.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Kansas ranked third in the nation in fiscal year 2013 in the number of federal firearms cases prosecuted, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) collected over $366 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 in criminal, civil, and forfeiture actions. Almost $30 million was recovered in criminal actions, most of which will be distributed to crime...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, January 9, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS PROVENZANO, 47, of Torrington, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: A Mansfield man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for fraud and insurance embezzlement, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: "This Office had been advised by the State Department that, pursuant to their request, Devyani Khobragade was to have left the United States this afternoon. In a letter sent to the Court upon the filing of the Indictment of Ms. Khobragade, we stated our understanding that she had left the country. Subsequent to the filing of the letter, Ms. Khobragade’s lawyer advised that she has not, in fact, departed the U.S.".

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Ripley Rand announced today that the Middle District of North Carolina collected $2,643,276.87 in criminal and civil actions during Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $1,381,953.47 was collected in criminal actions and $1,261,323.40 was collected in civil actions.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Covington today sentenced Katherine Rumph-Smith (44, Largo) to four years in federal prison for defrauding student financial aid and filing false claims with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Court also ordered Rumph-Smith to make restitution to the IRS, in the amount of $110,971, and to the Federal Stafford Loan Program, in the amount of $22,350.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced that financial collections in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 in the District of Maryland reached $143,297,520.31. The U.S. Department of Justice keeps statistics on a fiscal year basis, closing the books each September 30.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014

News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden announced today that the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office collected $18 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 related to criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions. Of this amount, $10.5 million was collected in criminal actions, $1.6 million was collected in civil actions, and $5.9 million was collected in criminal and civil forfeitures.