News from June 2015
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) led a letter with 11 Senate Democrats explaining the ways investments in health and wellness made through the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) have improved the health of women and families. The Senators highlighted how investing in women and families supports economic growth and helps further contribute to healthier and stronger communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: James Kovac III, 29, of Canton, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Committee hearing examining responsible and sustainable funding options for the Highway Trust Fund...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Amy C. Fletcher, age 44, of Derby Line, Vermont, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Brattleboro to committing wire fraud and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $3 million fraud scheme that forced her employer out of business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Grover Crossland, Resident...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Reginald Howard, Jr. (36, Ocala) guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled. Howard was indicted on January 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jermaine Hairston, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. Hairston stole the personal identifying information of an emergency room physician and used it to call in fake...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Two Defendants Sentenced; Baltimore Source Pleads Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul stated “The two arrest operations conducted today removed major sources of illegal narcotics from flowing into our area. The dangers of both heroin and cocaine are well known, and can include death for the user, and a severe decline in the neighborhood for those who through...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Washington - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Thursday introduced legislation to authorize the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency to develop and operate incentive programs to help improve outcomes for sentenced offenders who are being reintegrated into...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Paul Sewell, 49, of Reading, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 23 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors or of adults by force, and production of child pornography. Sewell pleaded guilty, on Sept. 21, 2011, to four counts of sex trafficking and three counts of production. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, ordered five years of supervised release and ordered Sewell to pay $52,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announces today the completion of a Montana operation that convicted 20 defendants for methamphetamine, firearm and money laundering charges, resulting in the seizure of more than half a million dollars worth of meth. Operation Highline Crystal Highway joined more ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Israel Berríos-Berríos, a former Catholic priest, was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for transporting a minor with the intent to engage criminal sexual conduct, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Berríos-Berríos pled guilty on Aug. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Scheme included staging an accident to receive pain medications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who is handling the case, stated that from December 2011 through January 2012, Patton sold fentanyl patches to an undercover police officer multiple times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: TWO MORE SENTENCED FOR RACKETEERING IN CASE INVOLVING IRONWORKERS LOCAL 401.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Pablo Barreto-Cruz, 40, of Michoacán, Mexico, charging him with marijuana cultivation and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Used Jointly Operated Company to Submit over 150 False Invoices Without Disclosing Conflict of Interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today against Epati Malauulu, 40, of Suisun City; John Ortiz, 43, of Vallejo; Algernon Tamasoa, 26, of Sacramento; and Francisco Poloai, 43, of Dixon, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, attempted distribution of methamphetamine, distribution of marijuana, and use of a communications facility to facilitate a drug trafficking crime.
