News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a Harwood Heights home health care company paid kickbacks to marketers in exchange for referring elderly patients to the company for unnecessary treatment funded by Medicare, according to a 17-count federal indictment announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: A Summit County councilwoman was named in an 11-count federal indictment, charged with taking cash bribes and other things of value in exchange for official actions, including help with court cases, impeding a pending IRS investigation and assistance obtaining a liquor license, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Samuel Collins, 47, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today to three years in prison and three years of supervised release in connection with charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine base, often referred to as crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Spent Money at Casinos and on Other Personal Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced the trial conviction of LEE ANDREW PAUL, a/k/a “Black," 35, who was originally indicted on Feb. 17, 2015, in the District of Minnesota, for sex trafficking two minor girls. A superseding indictment subsequently charged...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the final environmental document for the Upper Truckee River and Marsh Restoration Project in El Dorado County, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: “The swift convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos beg an important question - how many prosecutions will it take before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: R.I. attorney, real estate agent, mortgage originator and loan officer latest to be charged in wide-ranging investigations into mortgage fraud in Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Thomas A. Kopec, 48, of New Lenox, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud for cheating a Panamanian investor out of $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Scrap Metal Brokers Defrauded. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - David L. Frisby, 65, of Kiln, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud scrap metal brokerage firms. The guilty plea included his admission to soliciting contracts for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Alabama Man Found Guilty of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Blackstone, Mass. man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston to charges that he impeded the IRS by cashing nearly $3 million in checks from his masonry business at check cashing services to evade the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that on Sept. 22, 2013, Mateo and Eddie L. Vaughn, a/k/a Elbow, transported Molotov cocktails to the Miami Deli Grocery at 176 Genesee Street in Rochester. Vaughn broke the store window with a brick. Mateo and Vaughn then...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Victor Hurtado, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 141 months in federal prison for his conviction on Hobbs Act, drug trafficking and firearms charges arising out of a pharmacy robbery in Jan. 2015, and a traffic stop in March 2015. Hurtado will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Long Term Tax Protesters Fled Oregon After Being Convicted at Trial.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join members of the Chicago Astronomical Society on the firstSaturdaynight of each month to get a closer look at the evening sky over Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. This month's program meets onJan. 2, at5:00 p.m.at the national lakeshore's Kemil Beach parking...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Alleged to have sold narcotics to undercover FBI agent.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-The rich heritage of southern West Virginia is celebrated through photographs in the 2015 Hidden History Photo exhibit. These history-based photographs are currently on display at New River Gorge National River's Canyon Rim Visitor Center in Lansing. First displayed at Tamarack...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - William David Dickson, aka Butch Dickson, 59, of Jackson, was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, by U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee, to 57 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for the fraudulent receipt of over $9 million and concealment of...
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement echoing a letter from 17 Latino Members of Congress urging Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to stop blocking the confirmation of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson as United States Ambassador to Mexico...
