News from November 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FROILAN IGNACIO MIRANDA-RAMOS, age 30, of Gretna, pled guilty today to four counts of transferring false Social Security cards.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 19, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JIMEL FRANK, also known as “30" and “Velly," 28, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to committing the murder of Anthony Parker of Hartford in April 2011.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - With the guilty plea of the final defendant today, a total of six men have now been convicted for their varying roles in an international sex trafficking of minors conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 19, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?"

By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced, "In observance of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, the Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center will be closed on Thursday, November 26th. The Visitor Center will re-open on Friday, November 27th." The Pipestone Indian Shrine Association gift shop, located at the Visitor Center, will also be closed Thanksgiving Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The co-owner of a defunct Missouri construction company has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for defrauding a federal program that set aside contracts for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Thursday.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement amid growing signs of a landslide victory for Burma’s pro-democracy party, the National League for Democracy, in Sunday’s election...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to 10 years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for participating in an oxycodone distribution and money laundering conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Lester W. Taylor, 46, of Daytona Beach, Florida, previously entered his guilty plea to conspiracy charges concerning distribution of oxycodone and laundering the proceeds of his criminal activities.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Sentencing Agreement Required Restitution, Fine and Repayment to Federal Defenders.

By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA), issued the following statement in response to Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks on Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Under indictment are: • Jennifer Courton, 28, of Buffalo, NY. • Calvin Elston, Jr., 38, of Buffalo, NY. • Brandon M. Coburn, 32, of West Seneca, NY. • John Davis, 42, of Buffalo, NY. • Rodney Courton, 46, of Buffalo, NY. • Jessica Howard, 23, of Buffalo, NY. • Samuel Nappo, 36, of Buffalo, NY. • Tashaira Vazquez...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Taylor Produce LLC in Rigby, Idaho, for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: “Fraud such as this hurts policy holders and indeed all taxpayers who in the long run who must absorb increased costs to account for such crime," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. “Our Office will continue to work hand in hand with our law enforcement to vigorously investigate and prosecute such crimes.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: MILFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Milford Police Chief Keith Mello announced that Ljudmil Kljusev, M.D., who has operated a psychiatry practice...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Defendants Stole Identities of Prisoners and Deceased Individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former district manager for pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott pleaded guilty today in connection with wrongfully accessing patients’ protected personal health information.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA - State and federal law enforcement leaders joined United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II today to announce the formation of a working group that is taking a data-driven approach to the prevention of health care fraud in West Virginia.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2015
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael Anglin (age 25) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Charles N. Clevert to 230 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in the December 9, 2013, robbery of the Hampton Service Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The robbery was committed by three masked men, two of whom were armed with a 9mm handgun and an assault rifle.