News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JOETTA TYLER-HYDE, age 54, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, followed by 6 months on home detention and 3 years of supervised release for Theft of Federal Program Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666. The defendant was also ordered to pay $100,505.66 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Pamela Lee, age 48, of Madison, Alabama, Michael Shane Garrison, age 26, and Marlon Ramon Coston, age 21, pleaded guilty in federal on Tuesday for their roles in a in a scheme to defraud businesses throughout the United States, announced George L. Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Both Garrison and Coston are inmates in the Alabama Department of Corrections.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Today the Finance Committee has before it two nominees for vital positions in the federal government: Marisa Lago, nominated to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative at USTR, and Tom Reeder, nominated to be the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Agreement with Carnival Corp. Over ADA Violations by Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A Solon man was charged for his role in murder-for-hire plot, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Dr. Fred Joseph Turner (57, Sarasota) and Rosetta Valerie Cannata (58, Osprey) with conspiracy to unlawfully bring an alien into the United States, conspiracy to distribute and dispense hydromorphone...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
Release: Ranking Member Peterson spoke in support of H.R. 1599, legislation to establish a voluntary, USDA-administered certification program for labeling genetically engineered (GE) food products.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A newly released study* comparing 34 U.S. health care organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest competitors found that the Baldrige Award recipients matched or exceeded their competitors' measures of health care quality and outperformed them in measures of favorable patient experience.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing, and Trade today each held markups to consider a number of bipartisan bills to strengthen public health and promote American manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. and Chairman Bob Goodlatte, and Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson today expressed great concern with an opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel that allows the Justice Department to deny access to records sought by the Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Father-son team moved over 50 pounds of methamphetamine to Evansville from Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A Riviera Beach resident was convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Raymond Lee Hendrix a/k/a “Georgia Lee" and “Lee", of Echols County, Georgia; and Willie Henderson, of Lowndes County, Georgia, entered guilty pleas to a number of charges in United States District Court in Valdosta. The pleas were entered on June 25, 2015 before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who handled the case, stated that on November 9, 2009, Buffalo Police officers executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence, located at 254 Laird Avenue in Buffalo. During the search, officers located approximately 96 grams of cocaine, packaging material, approximately $58,307 in United States currency and three firearms. A Buffalo Police canine gave a positive alert for the presence of narcotics on the currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Chester A. Bitterman Jr., 81, and his sons, Craig L. Bitterman, 55, C. Grant Bitterman, 53, and Curtis L. Bitterman, 61, were sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the United States. At sentencing hearings held on July 15, 17 and 22, U.S. District Court Judge James Knoll Gardner imposed the following sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Christopher C. Camut, age 52, of Baltimore, Maryland, on charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $1.6 million from three companies at which he was employed as the chief financial officer. The indictment was returned on June 15, 2015, and unsealed today at his initial appearance in federal court in Greenbelt. Camut was released under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SHAQUIL GARY, 22, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to a federal robbery offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in Benton, Illinois, has charged thirteen Southern Illinois residents with narcotics-related offenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tracy McWhorter, 35, of Triadelphia, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A Portland, Oregon married couple pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones in the District of Oregon today for conspiring to file fraudulent federal income tax returns that claimed refunds of more than $1 million.
