News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Federal Employees’ Compensation Fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Craig.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Coy Wollard, 29, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court for his role in manufacturing methamphetamine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Barbara Nell Bush, 46, of Opelika, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court for fraudulent use of EBT benefits. Bush entered a guilty plea to the charge in August of 2014. United States District Court Judge Callie V. S. Granade imposed a sentence of 18 months imprisonment and ordered...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today released a white paper outlining goals to reform the Head Start Act and requesting public feedback on ways to strengthen the law. The paper is the latest effort by the committee to improve federal early learning and child care programs for the nation’s most vulnerable families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Georgia man who fraudulently booked airline reservations by pretending to be a flight crew member pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Karen B. Olson, of Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for making false statements to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in connection with the construction and management of Valley Dairy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -The International Trade Commission unanimously confirmed that Chinese solar companies broke the law, and ruled in favor of Hillsboro-based SolarWorld in its fight against unfair trade. The ITC decision finalizes an earlier Commerce Department decision that Chinese and Taiwanese producers used illegal foreign government subsidies and dumped below-cost solar panels and modules on the U.S. market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Must Also Pay $900,000 in Forfeiture and Civil Damages.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Lucas N. High, 37, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal today for his role in a prescription painkiller distribution operation based in the Ohio Valley, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges of robbing an Overland Park bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced two new appointments within the Office’s Civil Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard M. Molot...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown, announces that Alfred Earl, a 60 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today. Mr. Earl pled guilty to theft of government funds on Oct. 20, 2014. Mr. Earl’s mother died in 1986, and at that time, she was receiving SSA widow’s benefits. Her benefits...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: A 38-count federal indictment was filed charging four people from Northeast Ohio with conspiring to defraud states out of more than $1.1 million in unemployment insurance benefits, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Sally R. Hansen, 39, formerly of Athol, Idaho, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The charge stemmed from Hansen’s years as the City Clerk of Athol from 2009 to 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Kingston woman who was indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2014, was arrested today for allegedly making false representations in connection with the acquisition of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The developer of three Trenton affordable housing projects was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for making false statements to a financial institution to divert project money for personal and other unauthorized purposes, and to conducting a transaction with the proceeds of this crime, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID HENRY, age 31, of Covington, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a medical doctor from Union County, NJ has been arrested on charges he conspired with a drug dealer and others to illegally distribute thousands of high-dose pills of the addictive painkiller oxycodone by writing fraudulent prescriptions for individuals he never treated or examined.
