News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a lawsuit against the SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL AESTHETIC P.C. d/b/a ADVANCED COSMETIC SURGERY OF NEW YORK (“ADVANCED COSMETIC"), and EMMANUEL O. ASARE, M.D. (“ASARE"), a plastic surgery practice...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Keegan L. Sipe, 31, of Huber Heights, Ohio, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to attempted coercion and enticement of minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jacob Corropolese, Sr., 65, of Norristown, PA, pleaded guilty today to tax charges in connection with his sports bookmaking operation. Corropolese admitted to filing false tax returns when he ran a sports bookmaking operation. Corropolese received more than $500,000 in proceeds from bettors...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover man and his Woburn company were charged yesterday with paying employees in cash in order to avoid paying union benefits and employment taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: A San Antonio businessman stands charged by indictment with defrauding personal injury clients, evading payment of more than $1 million in taxes, and attempting to hide substantial assets from the Bankruptcy Trustee announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Christopher Combs, Federal...
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced three bills aimed to improve the administration and integrity of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. The bills modernize outdated “grid rules" used to determine disability, make it easier for beneficiaries to navigate return-to-work supports and incentives, and align standards for medical evaluations with those of the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury Wednesday returned indictments against a Topeka couple accused of forcing a teenage girl into prostitution, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, announced that a federal grand jury in Springfield returned an indictment today that charges Shawn Shannon, 43, of Muncie, Ind., with one count each of sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: A new white paper by an international team surveys the role of wireless sensor networks in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). The report catalogs current needs for underlying standards and infrastructure that must be met before wireless devices can become, as some envision, nearly as plentiful as dust.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that STEVEN ALEX HUGHART, age 38, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Clifford B. Smith, 34, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery and tampering with a witness, was sentenced to 151 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $31,392 by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Jonathon Luke Holder, 23, of Panama City Beach, was sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Richard Smoak for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. The...
By USDA Newswire | May 6, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, May 6, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statement today after USDA's Food and Nutrition Service issued new data showing that 95 percent of schools are successfully meeting the updated meal standards made possible by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Stephen Paul Cotton (43, Palm Coast) has been indicted for failing to register as a sex offender after traveling from Florida to North Carolina. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Cotton was arrested in Suwanee, Georgia on April 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached agreements with White Sands Technology, LLC, Sierra Software, LLC, TNT Software, LLC, Digital Reveal, LLC, and the principal of Figure 8 Technologies, Inc. These agreements provide that the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of mail theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Derick Dean Brown. Sexual Exploitation of a Child, Receipt of Child Pornography, Enticement, and Possession of Child Pornography. Brown, 24, of Collinsville, Oklahoma, is charged with sexual exploitation of a female minor, receiving and possessing child pornography, and two-counts of enticement. If convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Vice-President of a brewing company was charged in a twenty count indictment yesterday along with seven co-defendants, as a result of an alleged scheme to defraud the company of at least $7 million by submitting false estimates and invoices that billed for fictitious promotional and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a 12-day trial, a federal jury today found six defendants guilty of all counts of wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
