News from February 2015
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the implications of FCC action to regulate the Internet using utility-style regulations. The FCC is scheduled to vote tomorrow morning to reverse decades of precedent and implement heavy-handed rules that are destined for court challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Rusty J. Smith, 36, of Cobden, IL, was sentenced for a methamphetamine violation in the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR NATAL, also known as “Boom" and “Boom Boom," 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to life imprisonment. After a four-week trial, Natal was convicted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Northern California man who operated the Internet’s best-known “revenge porn" website pleaded guilty late this afternoon to federal computer hacking and identity theft charges for hiring another man to hack into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on his website.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JASON TORRANCE, 43, of East Haddam, and ADAM MEYERS, 43, of Southbury, pleaded guilty on February...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Burn Scheduled for Wawona and South Entrance Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Corona woman who was the chief executive officer of a high-end jean company that outfitted Hollywood celebrities pleaded guilty today in federal court to bank fraud and bankruptcy fraud offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) made the following statement about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s decision not to testify before Congress ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote on sweeping new regulation of the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Paula Butterfield, owner and pharmacist-in-charge of Trivillian’s Pharmacy, a long-standing Kanawha City retail and compounding pharmacy, pleaded guilty to making a false statement in a healthcare matter. Butterfield also pleaded guilty on behalf of Trivillian’s to one count of health care fraud and one count of misbranding drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Stanley Duryea Johnson, age 60, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbery and using a gun during the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wetzel County couple was sentenced in federal court today after they stole nearly $400,000.00 from a 90-year-old victim to purchase a vacation home in the Outer Banks, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of stealing firearms from the inventory of a federally licensed firearms dealer, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Demetrius Anthony Gomez, 28, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to theft from a tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Gomez was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of CINDY LEE LINEBAUGH, 48, to one count of False, Fictitious and Fraudulent Claims. LINEBAUGH was indicted on Sept. 24, 2014, and pleaded guilty on Feb. 24, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Leon Bernsen Jr., 65, of Corpus Christi, has been indicted for federal crop insurance fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - MetLife Home Loans LLC has agreed to pay the United States $123.5 million to resolve allegations that MetLife Bank N.A. (MetLife Bank) violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that did not meet applicable requirements, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Santander Consumer USA Inc. has agreed to pay at least $9.35 million to resolve a lawsuit by the Department of Justice alleging that the motor vehicle lender violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), the Justice Department announced today. The complaint and the settlement, which is subject to court approval, were filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Nicholas Haxall Johnson, age 24, of Towson, Maryland, today to 42 months in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Judge Quarles ordered that upon his release from prison, Johnson...
