News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Defendants Conspired to Launder $2,600,000 in Stock Fraud Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, later this week. H.R. 6 is a nonpartisan bill originating from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative, launched over a year ago. The effort has seen continued support from patients, leading health care experts, and thought leaders across the country and from both sides of the aisle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Health and Communications and Technology today held hearings continuing longstanding work to strengthen Medicaid and protect the future of the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant had more than 600 child-pornography photos and videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Adrian Rubin, 58, of Jenkintown, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO"), for the operation of a “payday lending" business that violated the usury laws of Pennsylvania and other states. Rubin also admitted to conspiracy...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant Repeatedly Beat Victim for Perceived Sexual Overture.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Opening Statement Senator Barbara Boxer Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Hearing “Road to Paris: Examining the President's International Climate Agenda and Implications for Domestic Environmental Policy" Wednesday, July 8, 2015 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) The impacts of dangerous ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that two Schuele Boys Gang associates pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Benjamin Peoples, aka Beans, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine which carries a penalty up to 20 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: DONALD FONTENOT, age 61; JOSEPH POUNDS, age 47; EDGAR POUNDS, age 65; and HOUSTON COTTON, age 67; residents of Bogalusa, Louisiana, each pled guilty today to multiple federal charges of selling Roxicodone 30mg tablets to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Two men were sentenced to decades in prison, following their participation in a carjacking spree in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the statement below in response to a letter from Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, the largest public health coalition which includes 450 organizations, to take up the House TSCA bill (H.R. 2576) on the Senate floor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Announces Settlement Agreement with Longview, Washington, Car Dealership to Protect Employment Rights of Military Applicants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Chris Apachito, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Magdalena, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing four minor females over a twenty-one-year period. Apachito will be on lifetime supervised release after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Good morning and welcome. Last summer, we witnessed a humanitarian crisis as more than 51,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America came across the U.S.-Mexico border. The purpose of this hearing is to assess, one year after the crisis, what happened to those children. That, of course, is not...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Three members of a local fraud ring-Rodney Henry, Tony Lamar Watkins, and Phyllis Grant-have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing bogus income tax returns using stolen identities. The trio stole more than $800,000, all in the form of fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: A federal court has barred three Florida men from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Lou’s Fish Market Inc , a federally-licensed fish dealer located in the Bronx, New York, and its company president, Mark Parente, of Englishtown, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, to federal felonies stemming from their role in systematically covering up purchases ...
