News from November 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) today introduced legislation to help protect drinking water from harmful algae blooms known as cyanotoxins. Latta authored the legislation in response to Toledo, Ohio’s August water emergency caused by the increased presence of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDIN ANTONIO PLEITES-ZAMORA, age 24, a citizen of Honduras who most recently resides in Houma, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the United States Senate’s swift action to approve bipartisan legislation that ensures 1.5 million satellite television subscribers continue to receive broadcast programming and makes a number of changes to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Eleven alleged gang members and associates of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) have been charged for their alleged roles in conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise, drug conspiracy, kidnapping, and maiming a person, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today that the Eastern District of Michigan collected $691,889,997.55 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. This total is more than 27 times more than the office’s annual budget of $25 million. Of this amount, $685,731,929.48 was collected in criminal actions and $6,158,068.07 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Wenceslao Cruz Ochoa, 34, of Sacramento, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Lancaster, Texas, man who admitted transporting and shipping child pornography was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed seven incoming Republican members to the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ-GALLARDO, age 32, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Two Coral Gables residents were charged today by separate informations for their participation in a scheme to obtain more than $9 million dollars in kickbacks and other benefits, and to conceal this illicit income from the IRS, while employed as senior executives at Systemax, Inc. (“Systemax") and its subsidiary, TigerDirect, Inc. (“TigerDirect").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Defendant Had Several Turbo Tax Debit Cards And PII For 200 Individuals When His Limo Was Stopped For Traffic Offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced today that the District of Arizona collected $44,585,929 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $4,020,746 was collected in criminal actions and $40,565,182 was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Santa Barbara Island is open to public access following interim repairs to the dock damaged from high surf associated with Hurricane Marie in August 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) wrote to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen seeking information after learning that foreign diplomats working in the United States are eligible for subsidized health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Specifically, the letter asks how many have enrolled in ACA and the total cost of all subsidies given to foreign diplomats.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Camden, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm following an investigation that employed a deer decoy in rural Ray County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Six people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to bring crystal methamphetamine from California and sell it in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A doctor who operates a pain management clinic in Valencia has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that he submitted fraudulent bills and received improper payments from federal and state health insurance programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Garland, Texas, man, Jonathan Ramirez, 26, appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Eight residents of Miami-Dade County and three residents of Nicaragua have been charged for their alleged participation in a $25.2 million Medicare, Medicaid, and wire fraud scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Fiscal Year 2015 Funding Strengthens Market for American Products and Commodities WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service has awarded funding to more than 60 U.S. agricultural organizations to help expand commercial export markets for American products.
