News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Members of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Health Subcommittees today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator urging the administration to reverse course on its proposed changes to the popular and successful Medicare Advantage (MA) program. This letter echoes similar concerns outlined by bicameral Republican committee leaders in a letter sent to President Obama last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Pineville, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing child pornography. Jeremy Wayne Law, 30, of Pineville...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months incarceration, a $5,000 fine, and a $200 special assessment on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas last month, and unsealed late yesterday, charges 23 individuals with offenses related to their participation in a prescription drug distribution conspiracy, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - David Andres Perez-Pelaez, a/k/a Andres Zapata has been arraigned on federal charges of unlawfully exporting firearms and fraudulently shipping firearms to Medellin, Colombia, and possessing and disposing of stolen firearms, including a handgun stolen from the Clayton County Police Department. Perez-Pelaez was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that four individuals have been charged by a federal grand jury in Scranton with robbery or attempted robbery of 14 banks in three separate indictments filed late yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Carencro Police officer pleaded guilty to receiving cash payments from James Panos, former owner and manager of Desperado’s Cabaret, while the officer was in charge of regulating exotic dancer permits for the Carencro Police Department, and during a time Desperado’s operated as an illegal enterprise.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) resolution (S. Res. 72) calling on the president to prioritize and expedite the provision of defensive lethal aid to Ukraine and condemning attacks by Russian-backed rebels on civilians in Mariupol passed the Senate unanimously on Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Renwick Samuel, 50, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, a fine of $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mark Ruff, 40, of Connecticut, who was convicted of conducting an illegal gambling business and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was sentenced to nine years n prison and three years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Ruff was also ordered to forfeit $230,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Destinee McBride, 24, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to six months home detention and two years supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $59,077.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas last month, and unsealed late yesterday, charges 23 individuals with offenses related to their participation in a prescription drug distribution conspiracy, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Destin Whitmore has been sentenced to 17 years, six months for extortion, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The defendant used a social media site, where he maintained two fake aliases as well as a personal account, to entice and then force nine minors to provide him pornographic images of them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Former Council Member Harry L. Thomas Jr. and Five Others Earlier Pled Guilty to Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Texan was sentenced to 120 months in prison for trying to lure a minor into producing a sex video.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Southern California man is expected to make his initial court appearance today for allegedly conspiring to transport 12 kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that George Krajas, 46, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to time-served by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two Bridgeport men have been sentenced for trafficking heroin. RASHAD HEARD, also known as “Shotty," 25, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Ryan Opening Statement: Markup of Bills to Reform the IRS and Repeal the Death Tax.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - "SEVIS by the Numbers," a quarterly report on international students studying in the United States, was released Wednesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The report highlights...
