News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who is handling the case, stated that Stephenson, a radiologist, owned and operated Westside Imaging in Rochester. From January 2007 to April 2010, the defendant engaged in a scheme to defraud Excellus Health, MVP Health and Medicare by double-billing certain x-rays. In total, Stephenson fraudulently sought reimbursements of approximately $135,961.77.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Today marks the eighth hearing this committee has held on border security since we began exploring this issue in early March. Over the course of the last several months, we have examined transnational crime on our southwest border, vulnerabilities on the northern border, and technology and infrastructure solutions at our ports of entry. Today, the committee seeks to understand the challenges facing our longest U.S. border: the U.S. maritime border.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today hailed the return to Iraq of looted artifacts recovered during a raid on ISIS commander Abu Sayyaf. Representative Engel renewed his call for additional measures to curb the sale of antiquities looted by ISIS in Syria as a source of funding for the terrorist group.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: A man who distributed child pornography was sentenced July 14, 2015 to 14 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Nome, Alaska -An Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Replacement of a coastal emergency shelter cabin is now available for public review and comment, announced Park Superintendent Jeanette Koelsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today called on the disability community and other interested stakeholders to bring ideas to the table on how best to address...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Ray Allen Cook, 31, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell also sentenced Cook to three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The computer hacking forum known as Darkode was dismantled, and criminal charges have been filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere against 12 individuals associated with the forum, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania and Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDIN ANTONIO PLEITES-ZAMORA, age 24, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after pleading guilty today to a one-count indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who handled the case, stated that between June 2013 and Feb. 25, 2014, the defendant possessed and distributed crack cocaine. Specifically, on Feb. 12, 2014, Sparks gave crack cocaine to a co-defendant, who then distributed the drugs to a confidential source working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gyadeen P. Ramdihall, 28, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit access device fraud. He was also ordered to pay $17,987.56 in restitution. Ramdihall pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement after the House passed legislation by a bipartisan vote of 312-119 to authorize and finance our highway and transit programs through the end of the year.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the execution of a temporary Warren Act contract with the East Bay Municipal Utility District to allow for the storage and conveyance of non-Central Valley Project water from the Placer County Water Agency’s Middle Fork Project reservoirs in Folsom Reservoir, Lake Natoma and the Folsom South Canal.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor supporting an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act to strengthen accountability measures. Murray noted that the amendment from Senators...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Santa Cruz Fresh Produce Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the 5th anniversary of the U.S. Senate passing Dodd-Frank, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings today will introduce the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act, which will enhance the integrity of our...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Russian man known by the online nickname “Joga" was sentenced today for his role in an online fraud scheme that used stolen credit and debit card information to acquire more than $650,000 in consumer goods.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following opening statement for the full Committee hearing entitled The Rise of Radicalization in the United States: Is the U.S. Government Failing to Counter International and Domestic Terrorism...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN KNOWLES, 27, was sentenced on July 10, 2015, for various racketeering charges, murder, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, narcotics conspiracy, and firearms charges. KNOWLES was sentenced to life...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: In Houston today, a federal jury convicted 44-year-old Tyrone Eugene Jordan, a sovereign citizen residing in Houston, for retaliating against a federal judge and prosecutor by making false claims announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner, Houston Division.
