News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago man was indicted on federal firearms charges alleging that he illegally sold firearms and illegally possessed nearly two dozen firearms, including assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns earlier this year. All of the firearms were seized by ATF agents following alleged purchases by an undercover confidential source, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: Entrance fees to Glacier National Park will be waived on Veterans Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, in honor of those that serve and have served in the United States Military.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On November 5, 2014, Peter James Wiley, a 33 year-old resident of Creston, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to 110 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: “No Show" Air Traffic Controllers Took More Than $165,000 Worth Of Unearned Pay, Overtime, Sick Leave And Vacation Time By Reversing More Than 300 Payroll Entries.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Life Support Corporation, formerly located in Feasterville-Trevose, PA, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. In separate hearings, the company owners, Nazariy Kmet, 35, of Jamison, PA, and Bogdan Kmet, 30, Warminster, PA and a company manager, Rostislav...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GALDINO MARTINEZ-CARRILLO, age 38, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count indictment for illegal re-entry of a removed alien.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist in Tifton, Georgia, has found a green alternative for controlling the stink bugs that attack crops in Georgia and in other states in the southeastern United States. The invasive brown marmorated stink bug is a familiar nuisance in many areas, but native brown stink bugs, green stink bugs and southern green stink bugs also damage crops in parts of the South.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Feda Kuran, 39, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 64 months in prison for a healthcare fraud scheme involving Brotherly Love Ambulance, Inc. Kuran founded Brotherly Love Ambulance, Inc. and was its president. The defendant pleaded guilty April 17, 2014 to healthcare fraud and paying kickbacks in violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Chamberlain, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary and Burglary of a United States Post Office was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 4, 2014, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Robert E. Cummings, 61, of Knox County, a former University of Tennessee Police Officer; Jimmy W. Douglas, 43, of Knox County, a former deputy sheriff for Knox County Sheriff’s Office; Samuel T. Hardy, Jr....
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I have said many times that in homeland security no news is good news, and no news is often the result of the hard work and vigilance of our men and women in this Department.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2014 –As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's rapid implementation of the 2014 Farm Bill continues, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced proposed changes to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), one of USDA's largest conservation programs for working agricultural lands.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, November 4, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its final total for U.S. agricultural exports in Fiscal Year 2014, which soared to a record $152.5 billion (up from last year's record of $141 billion).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: The owner and administrator of two Miami home health care companies was sentenced today to serve 80 months in prison for her participation in a $74 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: A Philadelphia man was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to serve 40 years in prison for his role in the retaliatory firebombing that killed six members of a federal witness’s family, including four children. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Political consultant Thomas Lindenfeld, 59, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in a fraud and corruption scheme related to illegal campaign contributions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Two men have been convicted for their roles in a sophisticated conspiracy to distribute child pornography to a secret, world-wide network over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Embarcadero Technologies Inc. and CA Inc. this week terminated Embarcadero’s proposed acquisition of CA Inc.’s ERwin data modeling product suite after the Department of Justice expressed continuing concern about the transaction’s potential for anticompetitive effects. Data modeling software is used to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: A Detroit-area resident was arrested today for his role in a $2.7 million home health care fraud scheme.
