News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDUARD TERCERO-LAGOS, age 25, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - James Kerasiotes, 61, former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, was sentenced today to six months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young for filing false tax returns. Judge Young also ordered Kerasiotes to serve one year of supervised release, four months of which must be served in home confinement, $31,448 in restitution to the IRS and a $5,000 fine. Kerasiotes was ordered to report to the U.S. Marshals on March 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Rodney M. Kidd, age 29, stationed on board Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on February 4, 2015, with two counts of theft of government money...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M, Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two former Bridgeport Police officers were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court for violating...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: This afternoon in San Antonio, 43-year-old Abdinassir Mohamud Ibrahim, a citizen of Somalia, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to Al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for making a false statement in an Immigration matter announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flannagan sentenced JOSEPH GRECCO, 52,of DuBois, Pennsylvania, to 30 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud. GRECCO previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man who was carrying a stolen firearm in a car pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Michael Hicks, age 25, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was convicted of one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm. At the plea hearing, Hicks admitted that in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Kenyen R. Brown, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama announced that Molly Perez, age 39, a resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced on February 5, 2015, by United States District Judge Kristi K. Dubose to 24 months imprisonment pursuant to her guilty plea to possessing a firearm...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Secretary Lew, for being here on day three of budget-palooza at the Finance Committee. While the committee examines the administration’s budget proposal today, the underlying issue getting our focus will be the health of the budgets of workers and families struggling to make ends meet.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Dates: Sundays in May (3, 10, 17, 24 & 31).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows workers to take unpaid leave to care for themselves or a sick family member without the fear of losing their jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RUBEN GEIGER, a/k/a “Rue," age 21, and DARIUS WILLIAMS, a/k/a “D-Man," age 23, both of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to federal drug and gun charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding reports of a computer breach of the health insurance company, Anthem Inc....
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: A Pembroke Pines resident who falsely represented that she was a Medical Doctor and owned and operated Vortex Medical Center & Management Services, Inc. (“Vortex"), located in Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to 17 years for defrauding Medicare. Her co-defendant was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for his role in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Used Forged Receipts and Invoices in Seven-Year Scheme to Claim Reimbursements for Mislabeled Personal Expenses and Obtain Duplicate Reimbursements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for producing a fictitious financial instrument that appeared to be issued under the authority of the U.S. Treasury. In pleading guilty, BRADLEY SHERMAN HAMPTON, 55, admitted that on Aug. 31, 2009, he created a fictitious $48,780 money order in an attempt to defraud Regions Bank and the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Glen Joseph, 45, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Superseding Indictment with making threats against the President of the United States, threats against law enforcement officers, and the interstate communication of threats, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today released a stunning new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office entitled, “Mental Health: HHS Leadership Needed to Coordinate Federal Efforts Related...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse.
