News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH T. MORRIS, 52, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Connecticut, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to operating an investment scheme that defrauded individuals out of approximately $175,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief of the Lee Police Department (LPD) was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Springfield following a three-week trial of extorting a $4,000 payment from a couple facing prostitution charges in Southern Berkshire District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Seminole, Florida, man was arrested at his home by FBI agents this morning for allegedly using phony invoices from his transportation company to obtain $220,000 from a New Jersey-based factoring business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Armstrong County woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud and health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: FORT MYERS, Fla. - Senior United States District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Adam (35, Naples) to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and improperly using a DEA Registration Number. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Craig Luksza, 34, of Chichester, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to Social Security Fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel M. Harbison has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm when he pulled over an off-duty Doraville police officer while impersonating an armed DEA agent. Harbison had been impersonating a federal agent for several weeks before he was caught.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: A convicted sex offender who failed to register after moving back to Iowa was sentenced on June 8, 2015, to more than one year in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, examined some of the mission-critical challenges facing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during the committee hearing, “Oversight of the Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3061.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The witnesses invited by Ranking Member Pallone, who is an original co-sponsor of the bill, are listed below...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Progress Toward a Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network."
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Some naturally occurring yeasts may be useful for protecting stone fruits against pathogens that attack after harvest. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) looked to the microflora on the surface of the plum to find potential biocontrol agents against brown rot.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced an agreement with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to amend the FCC’s plans to close FCC field offices.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee, released the below statement regarding a Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A North Brookfield man was charged in U.S. District Court in Worcester yesterday with child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Adam Parrish (35, Naples) to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and improperly using a DEA Registration Number. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that James Marcus Lloyd, III, age 41, from Charleston, South Carolina was sentenced today by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, United States District Judge in Macon, Georgia. Mr. Lloyd was sentenced to 96 months in prison...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The witnesses invited by Ranking Member Pallone, who is an original co-sponsor of the bill, are listed below...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced FELIPE DE JESUS JARAMILLO-ROSAS, 29,of Gwinnett County, Georgia, to 56 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and...
