News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that George Torres, 53, of Buffalo N.Y., who was convicted of unlawfully possessing with intent to distribute more than 200 grams of heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 168 months in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed today against Melissa Ann Arnold, 46, of York.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate and House Republican leaders today sent a letter to President Obama regarding the administration’s proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. The administration has repeatedly threatened the popular Medicare Advantage program, leading to higher costs and fewer choices for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico, plead guilty and has been sentenced in federal court to time served (5 ½ months incarceration) on his conviction of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Maryland attorney Don F. Lindner, age 61, of Severna Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. B Three Kankakee area men, with prior felony convictions, have been sentenced to federal prison terms for illegal possession of firearms, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. The men, who have been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since their arrests in September 2014, were sentenced on Friday, Feb. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced a $650,000 settlement was reached with Acadiana Cardiology LLC, Acadiana Cardiovascular Center and convicted doctor, Mehmood Patel, M.D., concerning allegations that Patel performed unnecessary medical procedures and billed Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAR BAHAMONDE, also known as “Dirk," 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Richard Zabel, the Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director in Charge New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the return to the Italian Government of two pieces of Italian cultural heritage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - ― A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications. The defendant, Sathish Narayanappa Babu, who owned Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., pleaded guilty in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications. The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, who owned Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., pled guilty in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 32-year-old Orange, Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jose Bruzual, 51, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 30-months imprisonment and a five-year period of supervised release following...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Santos Acevedo Gutierrez, 41, resident of Shafter, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession with attempt to distribute methamphetamine and agreed to the forfeiture of over $10,123.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on tax reform, growth and efficiency...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Eric Greer, 39, of Gallipolis, Ohio, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on President Obama’s veto of the bill to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Morrisville, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months on his conviction of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Ann Marie Howard Aguiar, 47, of Jacksonville, Florida was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to thirty-months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a nationwide tax refund scheme, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Paul Anderson has been sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Northwest and Delta Air Lines of more than $36 million. Anderson and his co-defendant Michael Yedor submitted false invoices to both airlines, for work that was not performed but was billed for by a company allegedly owned by Yedor.
