News from May 2014
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on today’s inspector general report that found the New York State Department of Health claimed $60.8 million in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Rodney Scott Blankenship has been sentenced for carjacking a Cedartown woman at gun point on Aug. 31, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announces the recent unsealing of an indictment charging three individuals with conspiring to violate federal drug distribution laws. On April 10, 2014, a federal grand jury returned the indictment charging RYAN ERNST NYBERG, age 33, CHRISTOPHER BYRON FRITCHIE...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 5, 2014, Valance Ray Smith, Sr., 46, of Peach Springs, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to a total of 165 months in prison on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Smith was found guilty by a federal jury on Jan. 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - EBRAHEEM MAKI NAIF, St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty Monday to food stamp fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Convicted bank robbers, John Charles Applewhite and his daughter, Shelby Dawn Applewhite, have been sentenced for their roles in robbing three banks in Dallas in May 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Production of Child Pornography Transported to the United States, Travel with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity, and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Federal Employees Exaggerated Alleged Injuries Incurred On The Job And, In Some Cases, Failed To Disclose Other Sources Of Income Earned While Collecting Federal Disability Payments.
By USDA Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for projects in 18 states to improve electric service to business and residential consumers in rural areas. The $540 million in loan guarantees to fund these projects are made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rural utilities program. They include more than $35 million for smart grid projects to improve rural electric system communications technology.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a five-day jury trial, a licensed accountant was convicted today of conspiracy and fraud charges for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme in southern Nevada and causing approximately $1.6 million in losses to federally insured financial institutions, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a new report with detailed information regarding the Committee’s year-long investigation of IRS screening of applicants for tax-exempt status.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: On May 7, 2014, Republican leaders plan to bring to the House floor a resolution introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress. Below are key resources for Members and staff regarding the McCarthy era legal precedent for this resolution, statements...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Perhaps most residents of Springfield do not realize that two particular men, both of whom were employees of the Springfield Armory - Edward Ingersoll and Stanhope Blunt - were instrumental in the creation of the City's parks and open space. On Sunday, May 18, Springfield historian...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Vinston Boxton-(48, San Andres Island, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to conspiring...
By State Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) hailed the Senate passage of a resolution condemning the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian school girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram on April 14. Most of the abducted girls - the majority ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Angeline Morago George, 37, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to seven months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for theft from a tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered George to pay $4,176 in restitution, pay a $100 special assessment, and perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Shawn H. Spencer, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Van Buren MO - On August 27th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act establishing Ozark National Scenic Riverways, as a unit of the National Park Service. Many FREE events and activities will be offered in recognition of the park's fifty anniversary. The events, dates, times and descriptions are as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The owner of a Huntington Beach-based military contractor has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges for failing to report to the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars his company received for providing services to the military at Baghdad International Airport.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, WV,May 6, 2014: The National Park Service is currently recruiting for an AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) Summer Associate to serve in the New River Gorge National River. The role of the VISTA Summer Associate is to collect, transcribe and catalogue oral histories of original...
