News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13-count indictment charging former City of Dunkirk Mayor Richard L. Frey, 83, of Dunkirk, NY, with engaging in a scheme to defraud his mayoral campaign and his supporters by stealing campaign...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement this evening following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: In El Paso, a federal jury convicted four Folk Nation/Gangster Disciples members, one of whom was a former juvenile probation officer, of federal sex trafficking charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A local real estate investor, who operated Steelman Homes, was sentenced today for his role in a wire fraud conspiracy, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Public Health Legislation to Help Patients and Local Communities."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Public Health Legislation to Help Patients and Local Communities."
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Public Health Legislation to Help Patients and Local Communities."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Sergio Lagos, 45, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six counts of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Lagos was the former CEO of USA Dry Van Logistics (USADV), a cross-border trucking company that services the maquiladora industry. Aurelio “Jim" Aleman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today in Harrisburg that Nancy Rockey, age 55, of Harrisburg was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 15 months in prison for wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joseph Dougherty, 73, of Philadelphia, former Secretary/Business Manager of Local 401, was found guilty today, by a federal jury, of racketeering conspiracy and other charges connected to a dozen members of Ironworkers Local 401. The jury returned guilty verdicts on the counts of RICO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: (BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Elizabeth Mikotowicz, - 26, Bangor, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 37 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - The owner/operator of a chiropractic clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced this morning on a federal felony conviction stemming from her submission of false reimbursement claims to Medicare and Medicaid, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s State of the Union Address and the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative. For the past year, Chairman Upton, along with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) have led a discussion...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s State of the Union Address and the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative. For the past year, Chairman Upton, along with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) have led a discussion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ronald Belciano, age 42, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania was sentenced today by United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg to 63 months’ imprisonment and 4 years supervised...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 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 Jan. 27, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “What are the Elements of Sound Data Breach Legislation?"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas E. Bishop, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that GEORGE LANDEGGER pled guilty on Jan. 16, 2015, to willfully...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 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 Jan. 27, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “What are the Elements of Sound Data Breach Legislation?"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mexican national Ricardo Garza-Ramirez, 55, has been ordered to prison for five years following his conviction of conspiracy to import cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Garza-Ramirez pleaded guilty Sept. 3, 2014, on the day he was set to begin trial.
