News from February 2015
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 26, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Update: Patent Demand Letter Practices and Solutions." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that all forfeiture claims in the civil case against $11,071,188.64, seized from brokerage accounts involving money laundering transactions, were struck down by U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson, of the Eastern District of Missouri. The Judge further ordered the proceeds to be forfeited to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Robert Charles Duke and his Catoosa business, Vision and Eye Care Medical Diagnostic and Laser Center, Inc., have agreed to pay a total of $150,000 to settle allegations of submitting false Medicare and Medicaid claims to the United States and the State of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that William Nelson, age 42, and Greg Bush, age 53, both of Brooklyn, New York were sentenced in federal court in Scranton on charges of trafficking in 100 grams or more of heroin.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 26, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Update: Patent Demand Letter Practices and Solutions." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: In Waco, Charles D. Jones, 61-year-old owner of Charles D. Jones Capital Management, Inc. (CDJCM), faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in connection with the theft of more than $8 million from his clients announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Kathleen Hickman, Dallas Field Office, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the FY 2016 HHS Budget." Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty in federal court in Wichita Thursday to a robbery charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding the newly-announced 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recommendations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the FY 2016 HHS Budget." Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company pleaded guilty late this afternoon to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogates over the course of more than three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, Feb. 18, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 25 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Manatí, PR, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 26, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Update: Patent Demand Letter Practices and Solutions." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kathy Jordan, age 61, of Westbrook, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to adulterating a food item, namely a bottle of fish oil capsules, with intent to defraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday launched an investigation into the deliberative process of the Federal Communications Commission. In a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Uda Hidalgo, 31, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Thirty-four Florida residents were arrested in a drug trafficking conspiracy. A total of 39 individuals were charged, five individuals remain at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man who was caught sexually assaulting a toddler on a nannycam pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing child pornography. Jeffrey Laurence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Dr. Steven Collins Admits To Receiving Child Pornography, Improperly Prescribing Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
