News from November 2014
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 754, which condemns the government of Iran for its gross human rights abuses. The bipartisan legislation was introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis announced today that the Central District of Illinois collected $30 million for taxpayers in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year 2014. Of this amount, $20,418,986 was collected in criminal actions by the Central District; an additional $13,456 was collected...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Garcia, 38, a former detective with the Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) in Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today for violating the civil rights of an LCPD student intern. Garcia was sentenced to nine years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Garcia also was ordered to forfeit his law enforcement certification and comply with federal and state sex offender registration requirements.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fulfilled entitlements for four Yukon River villages this week in a patent-signing ceremony at the Anchorage office of the Gana-A ‘Yoo, Limited.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel K. Lane, Jr. has been sentenced for conspiring to commit healthcare fraud by filing fraudulent claims with Medicare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and other insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Bergen County, New Jersey, residents were charged today in a scheme to defraud two international companies out $3 million by fraudulently billing them for services that were never completed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two former members of a powerful Boston Teamsters local, including its principal officer and a member who had been convicted of a prior felony, were convicted today by a federal jury of extortion and racketeering, including charges that they extorted local non-profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Washington Gas Energy Systems (WGESystems) has agreed to pay more than $2.5 million in fines and monetary penalties for conspiring to commit fraud on the United States by illegally obtaining contracts that were meant for small, disadvantaged businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Albany, NY - U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York collected more than $44 million in civil and criminal penalties this past fiscal year. Of this amount, $17,655,763 was collected from criminal prosecutions...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after being selected by his colleagues to serve as chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee in the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Larry J. Wszalek, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters, Tax Division, and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Rony Maurival...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Parks collaborate to protect globally significant public lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA) announced today that they are working together on legislation to stop all payment of Social Security benefits to Nazis and others who actively assisted in Nazi crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded HELP Committee approval of two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominees, two Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission nominees, and a Department of Labor (DOL) nominee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny county resident has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Paul Cerno, 38, of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to felony information charging him with sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16 but older than 12. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Cerno will be sentenced to a federal prison term of 65 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Cerno will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation to terminate Social Security benefits for Nazi persecutors who receive them because of a loophole in current law. In the Senate, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced the No Social Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Delgadillo, 38, of El Paso, Texas, pled guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin into the Otero County Prison Facility (OCPF) in Chaparral, N.M. At the time of the indictment, Delgadillo was employed as a corrections officer at OCPF. Delgadillo is the last of six defendants to enter a guilty plea in this case.
