News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions from late 2008 through early 2010 by agreeing to assist Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others in an effort to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. The defendant, C. GREGORY TURNER, met multiple...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Extendicare Health Services Inc. (Extendicare) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (ProStep) have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eight states to resolve allegations that Extendicare billed Medicare and Medicaid for materially substandard nursing services that...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will hold 17 public hearings this fall on proposed regulations and environmental assessment related to sport hunting in Alaska’s national preserves.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that, after a week-long jury trial, VANDALE THOMAS, age 40, a resident of Prairieville, Louisiana, was convicted on all 11 counts of theft, money laundering, and structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements. Seventeen witnesses testified for the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLES HUGGINS was found guilty in Manhattan federal court of perpetrating a multimillion-dollar investment fraud against dozens of victims across the United States. HUGGINS was convicted following a two-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, today announced the extradition of ARTHUR BUDOVSKY from Spain to face charges related to his alleged operation of Liberty...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Sharon, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months for his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell chiropractor pleaded guilty today for bribing an IRS auditor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty on Oct. 8, 2014 in U.S. District Court in Worcester with conspiring to illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition and with conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement to unilaterally designate almost half of the Angeles National forest as the San Gabriel National Monument amid local opposition and without public input.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; William P. Offord, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Sixty people were indicted and 110 firearms were seized as part of a months-long enhanced enforcement initiative targeting the criminal possession, use and sale of firearms in Greater Cleveland, law enforcement officials announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation, and Scott Dennis, Special Agent in Charge of the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: The Rebecca Fraud. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that one-time Long Island businessman MARK HOTTON was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 34 months in prison for defrauding the producers of the Broadway show “Rebecca - The Musical"...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: In El Paso yesterday, 22-year-old Kevin Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution for his role in maliciously causing destruction to the Coronado Tower Building announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Special Agent in Charge Robert R. Champion, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dallas Field Division.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BARNSTABLE COUNTY, MA - Representatives from Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, the CapeCod National Seashore and the Cape Cod Commission will host the first in a series of publicworkshops on the Outer Cape Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, at the Truro Community Center, 7 Standish Way, from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
