News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Conviction Relates to Distribution of $150,000 for Chechnya.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A federal jury in Miami convicted a physician assistant and a certified nursing assistant, both South Florida residents, for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in fraudulent billings by American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a mental health care company headquartered in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury for the Northern District of California returned a superseding indictment charging Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) with obstruction of the investigation of the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB"), as well as additional violations of the Natural Gas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Ofelia Alvarado Vallejo, 44, of Elsa, has admitted to embezzling more than $90,000 from the Mid Valley House Residential Reentry Center when she worked there as an administrative assistant, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Andrew M. Luger, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, today announced the guilty plea of ANTONIO NAVARRO, a/k/a TONY SANCHEZ, 19, to Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. NAVARRO pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim. NAVARRO was indicted on May...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Detroit resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The ringleader of a conspiracy to steal income tax refund checks issued by the United States today admitted his role in the scheme, which led to the theft of more than $2.6 million from the government, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Sheila Anderson-Cloude, age 34, of Notthingham, Maryland, to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a conspiracy to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Judge Bennett also ordered Anderson-Cloude to pay restitution of $546,785.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Halloran Also Found Guilty Of Bribery And Fraud Related To Awarding City Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court today for illegally having a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin determined McDonald’s Corp. and its franchisees are “joint employers"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Former local radio host John Richard Balyo, of Grand Rapids, pled guilty in federal court today to producing and possessing child pornography. As a result of his plea, Balyo faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, up to a maximum of 50 years and must register...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Must Also Pay $1 Million in Restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week approved three more of the committee’s bipartisan public health bills, building on a strong record of success. These bills will streamline and update the approval process for new sunscreen ingredients, help the Muscular Dystrophy community, and help combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Each of these bills was passed by a voice vote.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week approved three more of the committee’s bipartisan public health bills, building on a strong record of success. These bills will streamline and update the approval process for new sunscreen ingredients, help the Muscular Dystrophy community, and help combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Each of these bills was passed by a voice vote.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “FERC Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan and other Grid Reliability Challenges." All five Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission testified on EPA’s proposed rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants, and how the rule would impact reliability and electricity markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Arleigh Joe Esqueda, age 35, of Newton was sentenced to 168 months in prison on federal child pornography charges in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on July 28, 2014, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Esqueda was also ordered to serve eight years of supervised release after imprisonment and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A registered nurse who operates a suburban health care provider that sends physicians to patients’ homes was arrested today on a federal health care fraud charge. The defendant, DIANA JOCELYN GUMILA, who manages Suburban Home Physicians, doing business as Doctor At Home, was charged with health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A registered nurse who operated GreatCare Home Health, Inc., a home health agency based in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving kickbacks to doctors and patients who did not qualify for in-home health services provided by GreatCare.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “FERC Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan and other Grid Reliability Challenges." All five Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission testified on EPA’s proposed rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants, and how the rule would impact reliability and electricity markets.
