News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- This morning, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rep. Mark Takano (D-Cali.) commended the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense as they unveiled their new complaint intake website for student veterans who feel that they have been deceived, abused, or otherwise taken advantage of by colleges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Today, United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case of United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. We support this decision and the trial team is prepared to move forward with the prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, Jan. 29, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marcos E. López authorized a complaint charging: Joselito Taveras, Miguel Jimenez, and Alberto Dominguez with conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and conspiracy to import and importation of controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding proposals to change and expand the current Universal Service Fund’s Schools and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former business owner was sentenced in federal court today for tax evasion after failing to pay more than $530,000 in taxes owed.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - At a Newsmaker press conference at the National Press Club today, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, unveiled bold new legislation to tackle the growing retirement crisis and rebuild the private pension system. Harkin’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Jan. 30, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, the mastermind of a nationwide oil and case swindle involving fraudulent investments in leases on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, MIKE ALFONS CAMPA, 55, of Yorba Linda, California, was sentenced to 360 months-30 years-in prison and $5,175,406 in restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed nine members and nine alternates to the American Egg Board for the 2014-2015 term. All appointees will serve 2-year terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 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, announce that Pasquale Pappalardo, 60, of Coral Springs, FL, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - WILLIAM NAES, of St. Charles, pled guilty to theft of government funds for his improper receipt of $150,480 in disability benefits over eight years. Naes admitted that he earned significant income running a tax preparation business between 2005 and 2013 and omitted that work and income from documents he submitted to the Social Security Administration in connection with his disability status.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - After deliberating approximately one hour, a federal jury of four men and eight women found Joseph Lee Ollie guilty of three counts of federal firearms violations, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Concord, NH -Nutveena Sirirojnananont plead guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to federal gun trafficking/export violations that include conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), making a false statement in connection with a firearm purchase, and unlicensed firearms dealing, announced United States Attorney, John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A former city clerk for the city of Havana, Kan., pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling funds from the city and from her church, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She agreed to pay restitution of approximately $14,658 to the city of Havana and $44,568 to Cross Point Baptist Church.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson yesterday spoke with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to underscore the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) important partnerships with cities and communities across the nation—especially New York City—and discuss the continuing collaboration between DHS with local first responders and law enforcement partners.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2014—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 30 university students to attend USDA's 2014 Agricultural Outlook Forum, titled "The Changing Face of Agriculture," to be held Feb. 20- 21, 2014, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va. Twenty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Joel Rakower, along with his solely-owned corporation, Transship Discounts Ltd., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., to violating the Lacey Act by mislabeling imported piranhas, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Dreher for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice and Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to per manently bar Keisha Stewart and her co mpany, Professional Tax Services Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Depart ment announced today. According to the co mplaint, Stewart and her co mpany prepared ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Saint Joseph Health System Inc. has agreed to pay $16.5 million to resolve allegations that Saint Joseph Hospital violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for a variety of medically unnecessary cardiac procedures, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: U.S. District Court Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Andrew Blane Fields, 62, of Lutz, Fla., to serve 33 years and nine months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, the Justice Department announced today. A jury convicted Fields on Nov. 6, 2013, of five counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and three narcotics counts arising from his distribution of controlled substances to the sex trafficking victims as part of his scheme of coercion.
