News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Thomas Bandzul (71, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 13, 2015, before Senior United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. Bandzul was indicted on Jan. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that TORRIE BRUMFIELD, a resident of Amite, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to serve 16 years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder has selected Mike Cotter, Montana's United States Attorney, to serve on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee (AGAC). The Committee consists of 20 of the 93 United States Attorneys selected by the Attorney General to represent the interests of their judicial district. The Advisory Committee gives United States Attorneys a voice in Department policies and advises the Attorney General of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) called on the Acting Commissioner of Social Security to adopt the recommendations of the special report released today by the Social Security Administration Office Inspector General (SSA OIG) on Social Security’s failure to prevent recent disability fraud scandals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Brunswick, New Jersey, couple was arrested today and charged with harboring undocumented aliens to serve as prostitutes in a string of at least eight brothels scattered across the state, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 44-year-old captured fugitive has pleaded guilty in connection with a federal health care fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: PetrifiedForest-There is always science going on at Petrified Forest National Park-September is the time for a summary of the summer's activity. Every year, seasonal employees, researchers, and summer interns swell the park's science staff and get out into the field to make new discoveries.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Joint Economic Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service & Census Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-TX), released a joint staff report titled, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding HHS’ unilateral action to clear the backlog of Medicare appeals through a “settlement" process. In the letter, Brady asked HHS to clearly articulate its statutory authority for this settlement process.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of BRYAN REICHEL, 59, founder and former principal shareholder of PureChoice, Inc. (PureChoice), on seven counts of Wire Fraud. REICHEL is charged with stealing more than $2.5 million in investment funds and loans from a variety of investors by lying about the intended use of the funds and failing to disclose the true status of the company’s products.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jeffrey R. Rongish, age 31of Omaha, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for receiving and distributing child pornography. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Court Judge sentenced Rongish to a 78 month term of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany, Jr., M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed three bills authored by Congressman Boustany to limit the authority of the IRS in the wake of ongoing investigations into the agency’s targeting of conservative organizations. The three House-passed bills are...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Defrauded Investment Client of $250,000 and Submitted Falsified Loan Application in Order to Purchase Farm in Manalapan.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $2 million for two organizations that will advance technologies to harness stronger winds available at higher heights, potentially increasing the amount of clean, renewable electricity the nation produces.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Extensive Parkwide Clean-Up Event to Occur on September 23 - 28.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) introduced the Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014 to make technical corrections to U.S. tax laws. The legislation responds to various inquiries from the public and government enforcement agencies with respect to the application of tax laws, and clarifies Congressional intent of those laws. The Senate Finance Committee approved similar legislation earlier this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement on the release of the “Better Off Working: Disability Reform Work Group Strategic Plan" by the Michigan Department of Human Services, Michigan Rehabilitation Services, Disability Determination Service, and the Disability Network and Michigan Employers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: A former State Representative from Detroit was sentenced yesterday to a year in prison after having been found guilty of structuring financial transactions, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BOSTON -A Dorchester woman pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with offering cosmetic buttock and lip injections in exchange for money.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -Senior U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson sentenced Joshua Sipe, 30, of Newberry, Florida, to a mandatory minimum term of 15 years as an Armed Career Criminal in federal court in Gainesville yesterday. The sentence imposed by the court was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
