News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: A man who fired several rounds from a handgun at a house after a dispute with its occupants was sentenced yesterday to two and a half years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A jury in New Orleans convicted four employees of medical service clinics yesterday for their roles in a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Baltimore City Police officer Maurice Lamar Jeffers, age 47, of Savage, Maryland, has been charged by criminal complaint with theft of government property and stealing property as a federal officer. The criminal complaint was returned on Friday, May 8, 2015 and unsealed today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -This morning, on CBS’s Face the Nation, Wisconsin’s First District Congressman and House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke with Bob Schieffer about getting beyond the violence in Baltimore and getting onto fixing the issues plaguing American cities. Congressman Ryan also made...
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Ed Royce, the Committee’s chairman, today applauded House action to advance their legislation that would require the Department of Defense to consider the feasibility of imposing a no-fly zone in Syria.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) released the following statement in reaction to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report on the investigation into the March 4, 2015 incident at the White House Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Jason Medina, 31, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced today to 325 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for conspiracy to participate in racketeering and attempted murder in furtherance of racketeering.
By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: LA PORTE, Texas - Four workers killed by a lethal gas in November 2014 would be alive today had their employer, DuPont, taken steps to protect them, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Fresno residents Armando Perez, 50, and Christian Sandoval, 22, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Roger Eugene Hagood (43, Fort Myers) with 13 counts of bank fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for each bank...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on Committee member Rep. Alex Mooney’s (WV-02) bill,, the “Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining Act (STREAM Act)." At the hearing, Rep. Mooney testified.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Hollister, Mo., man and a Republic, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury, in separate and unrelated cases, for producing child pornography. USA...
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today applauded House passage of legislation that would strengthen Congressional oversight of an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (HR 1191) would establish a period for Congressional review of a proposed nuclear agreement and provide for a Congressional vote to approve the deal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SEAN ROBINSON and KENDAL THOMPSON pled guilty in connection with a robbery conspiracy operating across New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Connecticut in which members committed daytime robberies of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence man has been charged with devising a simple - and illegal - scheme that allowed him to collect more than $143,000 in credit card rewards, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, May 17, Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway) will open Fort Hancock's History House to the public for the first time since Hurricane Sandy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Noemi Alvarez Avila, 24, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on May 8, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and for possession of methamphetamine. Avila was arrested in Yellowstone National Park. She received five years of supervised probation with special conditions and was ordered to pay a $200.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Pravin Mehta, 77, of Amherst, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally dispense controlled substances from his medical office by...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) highlighted a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) that discovered over a ten-year period, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) repeatedly retained employees who willfully violated tax law and were guilty of other instances of misconduct. In response to these findings, Chairman Roskam released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - PharMerica Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $31.5 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing Schedule II controlled drugs without a valid prescription and violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for these improperly dispensed drugs, the Justice Department announced today.
