News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment, unsealed today, charges former Philadelphia Sheriff John Green, 68, of Kissimmee, Florida, and James Davis, 65, of Wyncote, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy and four counts of honest services fraud involving the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office (“PSO"), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Davis is also charged with two counts of filing a false tax return and three counts of willful failure to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Dec. 16, CHRISTOPHER SCULL, 36, of Naugatuck, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to two counts of mail fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud investors of more than $120,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: DENVER - David Scott, age 24, of Aurora, Colorado, a known member of the Crenshaw Mafia Gangster 104th Park Hill Blood gang, was found guilty today of being a felon in possession of a firearm, following a four-day jury trial before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger, U.S. Attorney John ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Hagerstown, MD -- The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) is pleased to announce Dr. Daniel Filer has been selected as the park's Chief of Business Management effective Dec. 27, 2015. The position is responsible for the day to day management of all administrative functions...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 17, 2015, Brock Daniel Knapp, 27, of Exira, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 12 months and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Knapp was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on the Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who operated two businesses that sold office supplies to the federal government has been convicted by a federal jury of giving illegal gifts to federal employees who did business with his companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: A Detroit man was indicted on Dec. 15, 2015, on charges of manufacturing and possessing destructive devices, which he strategically placed in his yard to protect his marijuana plants, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Joplin, Mo., residents have pleaded guilty in federal court, in separate but related cases, to possessing stolen mail and passing forged checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DWIGHT JOSEPH, JR., age 33, of New Orleans, was charged today in a two-count Indictment with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve and failure to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released proposed rules to better inform adult consumers of the health risks associated with indoor tanning, which is known to contribute to skin cancer, including melanoma. These new, critical safety measures will also prevent minors, ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for its decision to relieve certain commodity market participants, including farmers, ranchers and grain elevator operators, of overly burdensome paperwork and recordkeeping requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Mark Warner, D-Va., co-chairs of the Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group, today released an options paper outlining policies being considered as a part of the committee’s effort to improve how Medicare treats beneficiaries with multiple, complex chronic illnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Lowell Meredith Sherman, age 49, of Rockville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme defraud a non-profit organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Citizen Convicted of Sham Marriage to Gambian Man Who Committed Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned four indictments arising from an investigation into the transportation of illegal aliens through the Middle District of Louisiana.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the Comptroller General at the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the office to examine some issues about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) activities in foreign drug inspections and foreign offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two U.S. citizens who reside in South Texas have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute large amounts of cocaine and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alfonso Mata, 55, and Abelino Garza, 36, of San Benito and McAllen, respectively, pleaded guilty Feb. 5, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate today unanimously approved H.R. 1321, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced earlier this year by Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017. H.R. 1321 passed the House on December 7. The bill now heads to President Obama for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Houston area women have been sentenced following their convictions related to a scheme in which Medicare and Medicaid were billed for ambulance services that were not provided, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Erika Moscarro, 37, of Houston, and Maria Vasquez, 59, of Cypress, pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2014, and Jan. 22, 2015, respectively.
