News from November 2014
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded Congressional passage of two bipartisan health bills: the Sunscreen Innovation Act and the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two armored truck drivers for Loomis were arrested this morning on federal charges related to a scheme in which they stole more than $1 million in cash, part of a shipment that was being transported for Bank of America.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, a bipartisan group of Senators highlighted the passage of common-sense legislation to modify or eliminate more than 50 unnecessary, duplicative, or outdated reports and notification requirements produced by federal agencies and departments, that are required by law to be submitted to Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Sixteenth Defendant Convicted For Participation In Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - The former Chief Financial Officer of Shelby Regional Medical Center has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging ROXANNE MERRELL, 35, of Cottage Grove, Minn., with producing pornographic images of a child. MERRELL is charged with two counts of Production of Child Pornography. The defendant appeared in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn., earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Former Swiss Banker Charged in Manhattan Federal Court for Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Swiss Bank Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that COREY D. WILSON, age 37, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 87 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sean Costigan, 51, of Pawtucket, was sentenced on Wednesday to 96 months in federal prison for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine. Costigan was arrested in January 2014, when DEA Drug Task Force agents and detectives from the Warwick and Newport Police Departments executed a court authorized search of a Newport motel room rented by Costigan and seized materials being used to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following opening statement a committee hearing about the international response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Michael Stickler, 54, of Reno, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks to one count of willful failure to collect or pay employment and Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) taxes to the IRS, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former chief financial officer of the Manhattan-based brokerage firm Needham & Co. was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for stealing $1 million from his former employer through an elaborate false invoicing scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on the revelation that the U.S. Export-Import Bank has been erroneously characterizing large companies as “small businesses" in its record keeping...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MARIAME ROBINSON-COWAN, 66, of Yonkers, N.Y., waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2013 National Youth Tobacco Survey. The survey shows that tobacco use among young people is decreasing, while e-cigarette use among high school students has tripled between 2011 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that Franklin Ansu, age 31 of La Vista, Nebraska, was sentenced for his conviction for making false statements in an application for a position with the United States Air Force Weather Agency. Senior United States Judge Lyle E. Strom sentenced Ansu to three years of probation and ordered him to pay a fine in the amount of $1,000. Ansu was further ordered to perform 120 hours of community service while on probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Deepal Wannakuwatte, 63, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for a long-running fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Office, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon for the IRS-Criminal Investigation, and Special Agent in Charge Wade V. Walters of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury in San Jose returned a twenty-nine count indictment charging a Los Altos investment manager with securities and mail fraud, relating to a multi-million dollar investment scheme, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Special Agent in Charge Kari Overson, Small Business Administration’s Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
