News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - PATRICIA A. HOEHN, Farmington, Missouri, pled guilty today to three felony counts involving false statements to the Missouri Medicaid program.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed an improved Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine evaluation procedure that could be used to select better vaccines to treat the disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former New Jersey resident who previously worked for the U.S. subsidiary of a foreign investment bank admitted today that he orchestrated a scheme to defraud his former employer out of more than $1.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today presided over a hearing on the current status of U.S. international food assistance efforts and advocated for proposed reforms to the Food for Peace program that would provide more food faster to those in need without additional taxpayer resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On April 14, 2015, David Allen Goodwin, age 35, of Johnson County, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 180 months in prison, after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Goodwin was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment, forfeit the involved firearm, and pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MEHRAN ZAMANI, DDS, 50, of Pound Ridge, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a federal health care fraud offense stemming from a multimillion Medicaid fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Responding to proposed electricity rate increases in North Carolina, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today questioned how many other power companies across the nation were considering increasing rates in anticipation of the requirements of H.R. 2454, the national energy tax created under the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade" bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Union Official Extorted Port Workers For Christmastime Tribute Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On April 14, 2015, David Allen Goodwin, age 35, of Johnson County, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 180 months in prison, after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Goodwin was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment, forfeit the involved firearm, and pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A South Jersey man and a woman from South Carolina have admitted their roles in a conspiracy to sell 25 guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today. Shawn Tribbett, 32, of Camden, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of conspiring to deal ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Labor announced the unemployment rate for December was 9.4 percent. As the chart below shows, Democrats promised in their January 2009 “Romer-Bernstein Report" that the unemployment rate would be 7 percent at the end of 2010 if their stimulus passed. Instead, the actual unemployment rate after the Democrats’ failed $1 trillion stimulus law is 2.4 percentage points higher.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mohammed W. Akram, 27, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of, controlled substances. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - An indictment was unsealed late yesterday charging the following ten Chicago people involving a conspiracy to buy State of Missouri tax stamped cigarettes and transporting them to Illinois for resale.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Mark Ciccarello, 37, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Ciccarello to pay $4.5 million in asset forfeiture, and to pay a $3,000 fine. Ciccarello will self-surrender, as directed by the United States Bureau of Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Registered Sex Offender Took Steps to Hide Online Activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A federal trial jury convicted Thomas Victor Sway, 24, of Pensacola, of receipt, attempted receipt, and possession of child pornography. The verdict was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that John Lee Jenkins, 51, of Beckley, West Virginia, plead guilty in federal court in Beckley to distributing heroin. Jenkins admitted that on Nov. 11, 2014, he sold heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Stanaford Road in Beckley, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - The owner of a Morris County, New Jersey, freight shipping company today admitted billing a medical devices and pharmaceutical company more than $3 million for services that were never provided, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Investigators seek help in identifying more victims. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Martell A. Lowry, 25, of Cincinnati, with seven counts of production of child pornography involving seven...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal authorities have concluded an extensive public corruption and drug trafficking investigation that spanned over five years and resulted in the convictions of a Customs and Border Protection Officer from Atlanta’s airport, a DeKalb County Police Officer, and more than 10 drug traffickers who were responsible for the distribution of approximately 1 million pills of 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) and benzylpiperazine (BZP), a drug similar to ecstasy.
