News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Bonita Witt-Hird, 60, of Thorpe (McDowell County), West Virginia, was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for filing fraudulent water quality reports.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DANIEL T. WRIGHT was indicted involving his failure to properly dispose of asbestos from a former school building in Owensville, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: The Defendant Sold, And Received Reimbursement From Medicare And Medicaid For, Illegally Diverted Prescription Drugs Obtained From Patients.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: TARENTUM, Pa. - Andrew "CK" Sakala Jr. was fatally electrocuted on a roofing job at a Tarentum home in September 2014 when the aluminum ladder he was using contacted a 7,200-volt power line. Only three days later, his employer sent another worker to finish the job, exposing him to the same hazardous conditions that led to Sakala's death.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - A jury convicted Ebrahim Shabudin yesterday of seven felony counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and other corporate fraud offenses stemming from the failure of United Commercial Bank, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One defendant pleaded guilty and another was sentenced today in a case involving the sale of firearms and methamphetamine from a residence in Stockton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Wendy K. Banks, 55, of, Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. She was indicted by a grand jury on Nov. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three men traveling through Kansas City on Greyhound buses were indicted by a federal grand jury, in two separate and unrelated cases, for possessing large amounts of heroin and methamphetamine for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Chad R. Heins (40, Nekoosa, Wisconsin) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and must pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for June 23, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced an amendment to the Senate Republican Budget to expand access to high-quality preschool for low- and moderate-income three-and-four year olds. The proposal, which would be fully paid for by closing wasteful tax loopholes that benefit the biggest corporations, was blocked by Senate Republicans by a vote of 54-46.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of State's Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Rewards Program is offering multi-million dollar rewards for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of two alleged Russian cyber criminals identified during a far-reaching federal investigation into a worldwide online marketplace for stolen personal and financial information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kathy Oertelt, 32, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced an amendment to the Senate FY16 Budget to expand access to paid sick days. The amendment, similar to the Healthy Families Act Murray introduced earlier this year, would allow workers to earn up to seven paid sick days yearly. The amendment passed the Senate with a strong bipartisan vote of 61-39.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: David Copeland And Robert James Kelly Jr. Admit To Taking Kickbacks.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: With the return of spring, many climbing routes or features inside Arches National Park again have been temporarily closed to rock climbing to protect sensitive wildlife species in accordance with the authority of Title 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 1, Section 1.5(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ignacio Lopez-Perez, 38, a native and citizen of Guatemala, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to being found in the United States after being deported on numerous occasions. The defendant was sentenced to time served by Judge Skretny.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dehydration, dizziness, headaches and vomiting are just a few of the symptoms of nicotine poisoning, also known as "green tobacco sickness." Workers who plant, cultivate and harvest tobacco are particularly at risk. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announced the release of a recommended practices bulletin* with guidance on reducing the hazards for tobacco workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie," a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life plus 30 years in prison in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Terrance Thomas, 39, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 23, 2015, for failure to register as a sex offender. Thomas was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received time served, to be followed by five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Former United Commercial Bank Chief Credit Officer Convicted of Securities and Other Corporate Fraud After Trial.
