News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO-A Chicago man was sentenced today to a 120 month term of imprisonment for taking control of two Chicago-area home health companies and using them to bilk Medicare out of more than $20 million. JACINTO “JOHN" GABRIEL, JR., 48, has been in custody since February 2014, when he entered a guilty plea to charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Augusta, GA: Ricky Lee Kennedy, 32, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall to 20 years in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), will hold a hearing next week on the proposed budgets and program priorities for fiscal year 2016 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: LONDON - The owner of two out-of-state pain clinics, that unlawfully distributed hundreds of thousands of prescription pills to thousands of Kentuckians, has pleaded guilty to drug charges in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment, on March 10, 2015, Marshall was arrested operating a vehicle that contained marijuana and a loaded, 380 caliber pistol with a defaced serial number. The defendant was convicted in June 2003 in Monroe County court which prevented him from legally possessing a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Kenilworth, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role in the affairs of the Genovese organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese family"), including engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity by extorting Christmastime tribute payments from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Stored and Distributed Kilograms of Marijuana at His Laurel Restaurant, and Used Drug Proceeds to Buy an Upscale Restaurant/Nightclub in Silver Spring.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Sought by every President since FDR, Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) guarantees an up-or-down vote on trade agreements in Congress and assures international trading partners the deal they sign is the deal Congress will consider, allowing them to put their best offers on the table.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Rochester, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Charles Fitzgerald, 39, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $771,109 by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Fernando Canales-Mendoza, 52, a Mexican citizen living in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Thompson, 53, of Rockwood, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 8 months imprisonment for evading federal income tax and for illegal sales of lobsters. The Court also ordered Thompson to pay the Internal Revenue Service restitution of $65,172.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Traps. Whether you're squaring off against the Empire or trying to wring electricity out of sunlight, they're almost never a good thing. But sometimes you can turn that trap to your advantage. A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working with researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has shown that charge-trapping defects that are typically problematic in solar cells can be an asset when engineering sensitive light detectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact by Force was sentenced on April 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA - Sheryl Evans, 55, of Pooler, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week to 13 months in prison by United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. after pleading guilty to her role in a scheme to defraud the South Carolina Medicaid and federal Medicare programs. Sheryl Evans’s husband...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: MEDORA, ND: Theodore Roosevelt National Park invites the public to "Find Your Park" during National Park Week, April 18 -26. Entrance to the park will be free on Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former smoke shop owner and her employee were charged by criminal complaint yesterday for allegedly conspiring to distribute substances containing controlled substance analogues at the Cigar Box, a store formerly located in the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Miguel Rivera-Bugarin was sentenced on April 17, 2015 to 84 months (7 years) in prison for Illegal Re-Entry After Deportation By An Aggravated Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: A Martin County resident pled guilty yesterday to manufacturing hash oil by using a butane hash oil laboratory in his apartment and to related weapons charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Michael Serritella, 60, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Torresen to 30 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. The Court imposed an 18 month term of home confinement as one of the conditions of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that yesterday United States District Judge D. Brock Hornby sentenced Janis F. Woods, 65, of Conway, New Hampshire to 26 months incarceration, 3 years supervised release and $1,135,371.70 worth of restitution for one count of interstate transportation of stolen checks and one count of tax evasion. Woods pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2014.
