News from May 2015
By State Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and senior member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today made the following statement on President Obama’s commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy, which emphasized the importance of acting on climate change and the risks this global threat poses to national security...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Medco Health Solutions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Company, of Missouri, has agreed to pay the government $7.9 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. Medco provides pharmacy benefit management services to clients who receive subsidies under the Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Dominic J. Pomerleau, 22, of Sidney, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery and attempted pharmacy robbery. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Jan. 23, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announces that today, Charles R. Seals, 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced to a total of 228 months (19 years) of imprisonment along with a term of 2 years of supervised release following his plea of guilty to the felony offenses of armed bank robbery, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a federal crime of violence, and assaulting and impeding a postal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, also known as “Chino Antrax," pleaded guilty in federal court today. Chino Antrax admitted that as a high-level member of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel he and his co-conspirators coordinated the transportation of tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States and ordered or participated in cartel-related violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a four-count superseding indictment charging Jordon Louis Dongarra, 33, of Ashland, Ohio, with two counts of bank robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Today we will hear from the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the strategy behind the President’s significant shift in U.S. policy towards Cuba. Assistant Secretary Jacobson is joined at the witness table by the Counselor of the State Department, Ambassador Thomas Shannon. We welcome you both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that RACE ADDINGTON, 49, of Houston, was sentenced today for making false statements to agencies or departments of the United States in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer testing on an offshore oil and gas platform located at Ship Shoal 225 on a federal mineral lease in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Heavy rain and snow over the weekend caused a rock and mud slide across the Brink of the Lower Falls trail, prompting rangers to close the trail until further notice. One rock that crashed down is nearly 7 feet tall and 8 feet long, effectively blocking the trail.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: FRITCH, Texas - Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host a Star Party Saturday, May 23 beginning at 8:30 p.m. at Alibates Visitor Center.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on the Senate floor today discussed why a balanced approach to addressing currency manipulation is important to ensure the U.S. is able to maintain every monetary policy tool at its disposal...
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: FAIRFAX, Va. - A 36-year-old Romanian man wanted in his home country on attempted murder charges was removed from the United States Monday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David Capp announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 34 count superseding indictment charging Jack Weichman with nine counts of bank fraud, fourteen counts of bankruptcy fraud, two counts of money laundering, four counts of wire fraud, and five counts of filing false federal income tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Due to continuing winter conditions at high elevations in Rocky Mountain National Park, Trail Ridge Road's opening will be delayed. Trail Ridge Road historically opens on Memorial Day weekend; last year the road opened on May 24.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Salvador Espinoza-Patino and Alejandro Espinoza Del Toro were sentenced to 23 and 17 years in prison, respectively, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and distribution of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: New Ohio Earthwork Sightings from Earth and Sky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Thirty-seven members of the street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha," or “MS-13," have been indicted by a federal grand jury on racketeering conspiracy charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Twenty-two defendants have also been charged variously with additional offenses, including murder, attempted murder, assault, and firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 20-year-old Mesquite, Texas, man, Jeremiah Chayse Gardiner, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 25 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in October 2014 to one count of production of child pornography, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian will be holding a press conference.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Jack Lori Reppart, 46, of Southington, Ohio, with theft of public money and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
