News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Gardner, Mass. woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for fraudulently receiving over $100,000 in public benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Slavitt: Pursuant to Rule X of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and Commerce are continuing our oversight of the Administration’s implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). We write to request information...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Employer name: AWS Roofing Services Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PEDRO RIVERA, also known as “Cheito," 37, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 116 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. RIVERA’s mother and father, who assisted RIVERA’s cocaine trafficking operation, also were sentenced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican and Democratic lawmakers today expressed strong optimism that they will soon introduce a legislative proposal to help strengthen the retirement security of working families and ensure retirement advisors protect their clients’ best interests. As bipartisan concerns continue...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Mexican national living illegally in Laredo has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of having a firearm in violation of federal law, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Angel Villarreal-Sanchez, 43, pleaded guilty Aug. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A four-time convicted felon has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of unlawfully possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Antonio Ortiz III, 32, of Corpus Christi, in January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Anthony Cooper, 67, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the defendant received retirement benefits intended for his mother, after his mother’s death in February 1991 until December 2011. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of approximately $69,528.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, appeared today on Fox Business Network’s “Morning’s With Maria" to discuss his bill (H.R. 3654 ) to require the Obama administration to lay out a strategy to combat terrorists’ use of social media. The Committee passed Rep. Poe’s bill unanimously at a markup earlier this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bollinger Shipyards will pay the United States $8.5 million and release contract claims to settle a False Claims Act action filed against it in the Eastern District of Louisiana, the Department of Justice announced today. The False Claims Act suit alleges that Bollinger misrepresented the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of tobacco wholesale businesses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire was charged in an indictment unsealed on Dec. 7, 2015 in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with his scheme to defraud Massachusetts and New Hampshire of substantial tobacco tax revenue.Khalid Siddique...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Miami man has been sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $50 million in restitution for his guilty pleas to racketeering and identity theft crimes as part of “Operation Open Market," announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a legislative hearing entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee considered six bipartisan bills to address shortcomings in current law and work to reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a legislative hearing entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee considered six bipartisan bills to address shortcomings in current law and work to reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the November 2015 Federal Grand Jury.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting three public meetings next week to provide information and accept public comments on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement that analyzes 65 existing oil and gas leases on the White River National Forest, including leases in the Thompson Divide area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RONALD OLDANI was sentenced to 60 months in prison, followed by ten years supervised release involving his possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the oversight hearing on the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Role in the EPA’s Animas Spill where Secretary Sally Jewell testified but failed to substantively answer the Committee’s questions, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Elbert Darell Crump, age 47, of Towson, Maryland pleaded guilty today to robbery.
