News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), announced today that EDVA, working together with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice, collected $1,941,532,490.62 in cases pursued jointly with these offices in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $1,803,813.635.20 was collected in criminal actions and $137,718,855.42 was collected in civil actions.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its review of the 21st century media landscape and how 20th century rules and regulations are harming the ability of broadcasters and newspapers to compete in the Internet economy.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Inhofe Statement on Obama's Request to Federal Court on Carbon Mandate
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Superseding Grand Jury Indictment Adds New Fraud and Money Laundering Charges against Fugitive Hedge Fund Manager, Beverly Hills Broker, and 2 Homm Employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona collected $9,334,911 in fiscal year 2015. These recoveries were split nearly equally between criminal actions ($4,603,192) and civil actions ($4,731,718). Additionally, the District of...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Republicans voted to weaken the United States’ leadership on climate and roll back the progress our country has made in energy efficiency and clean energy. H.R. 8, the deceptively named “North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015," aims to bolster the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Through a combination of civil and criminal actions, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia collected more than $3 million during fiscal year 2015, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: United State Attorney Ferrer announced today that the Southern District of Florida collected $146,171,229.47 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, $56,256,636 was collected in criminal actions and $89,914,593.47 was collected in civil actions.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa are asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to account for how much federal money it has given to each state health care exchange, how much money it has identified as misused, what it can do to recover money for unallowable activities, and how much money for unallowable activities it has recovered.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - -Today, United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced DuWayne LeDoux, 55, of Kodiak, Alaska, to seven years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to structure cash deposits, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce House and Senate passage of H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The FAST Act includes a provision to restore a $3 billion ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A grand jury today indicted four correctional officers from the St. Bernard Parish Prison in Chalmette, Louisiana, for violating the civil rights of inmate Nimali Henry by deliberately ignoring serious medical needs that led to her death. The indictment was announced by Principal Deputy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BOISE - United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that her office's Financial Litigation Unit collected more than $4.9 million in civil debts and in criminal fines, assessments, and restitution for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2015. U.S. Attorney Olson stated that the Financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Former Massey CEO convicted of Federal conspiracy charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to 360 months in prison for attempting to use a child to make a sexually explicit video and attempting to persuade the child’s mother to allow him to sexually exploit the child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Marat Yelizarov, age 28, of Pikesville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, kidnapping, and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with the robbery of a jewelry store, including a home invasion robbery, carjacking and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin addresses jury verdict in Blankenship trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following Senate passage of a reconciliation bill that would repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty in Violent Racketeering Conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Republicans voted to weaken the United States’ leadership on climate and roll back the progress our country has made in energy efficiency and clean energy. H.R. 8, the deceptively named “North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015," aims to bolster the...
