News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Jacquelin Boyd, aka Jacquelyn Boyd, age 37, of West Jordan, who pled guilty in January to making a false claim to the IRS, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell imposed the sentence Wednesday afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Mike Caldwell has selected Paul DePrey as superintendent for Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts and Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, located in Saugus, Massachusetts. He will also serve as the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: A Richfield man was charged in a criminal information with selling unregistered securities in which dozens of investors lost about $7 million, law enforcement officials said.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: I think people know that since 1954, U.S. international food aid programs have helped feed over three billion people and promote food security in over 150 countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - STACI A. MARTIN was indicted for allegedly filing false tax returns for tax years 2008 and 2009.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Kaptur, and Chairman Rogers.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the two year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mercer County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 15, 2015, David V. Roberts, age 42 of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced for wire fraud. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Roberts to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons for forty-one...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released data from a 2008 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report showing more than 90 percent of seniors enrolled in the government-run Medicare program need and get additional health care coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Hundreds of thousands of dollars swindled from unsuspecting investors.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Witnesses: Michael Horowitz, Inspector General, US Department of Justice (DOJ). Kevin Perkins, Associate Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Michele Leonhart, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) . Takeaways: * DEA Administrator Leonhart claimed she is unable to fire...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, last evening Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, took to the Senate floor to highlight the work of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee, Special Agent Matthew O’Neill, as part of his ongoing efforts to highlight the exemplary work of a Department employee each month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Lee’s Summit, Mo., youth soccer coach was sentenced in federal court today to attempting to produce child pornography by secretly videotaping members of his...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) employee pleaded guilty today to defrauding the government out of more than $113,000 using fraudulently issued government credit cards, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rod ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint seeking to bar a retired Chicago firefighter from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced the start of the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance (CRI-TA) with the Calexico Police Department in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Two Georgia residents were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Atlanta for their involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: A South Florida Doctor was charged in a seventy-six count indictment for participating in a Medicare fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Shimon Richmond ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, returned a two-count indictment charging Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy William D. Wheeler, 46, with unlawfully assaulting a man at the Palm Beach County Detention Center on Oct. 9, 2013, and filing a false report on the incident, announced Principal ...
