News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting returned a six-count superseding indictment charging a Roaming Shores man with distribution of heroin, distribution of crack cocaine, possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act of 2015, legislation that would remove barriers and help ensure more students from all walks of life have strong and clear pathways into and through higher education.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Attacked Officer in FCI Ray Brook Dining Hall.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark.-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dax Roberson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARRY FALTERBAUER pled guilty today to willfully failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR") with the IRS regarding a secret offshore bank account he maintained and controlled.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jose Farias Barajas, a/k/a "Bear," was sentenced today to 28 years in federal prison for his part in a racketeering conspiracy and other crimes announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The sentence follows a guilty plea in which Barajas acknowledged his guilt relating to several gang-related crimes including robbery, narcotics trafficking, and murder.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew M. Slavitt calling for more transparency and accountability in the administration’s advertising practices. The letter comes after it was reported the administration budgeted nearly $35 million for Obamacare advertising for the health law’s third enrollment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Gerard Roy failed to perform on millions of dollars of government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, Boyd was president of River Cities Sawing (RCS), a concrete business involved in highway infrastructure projects. RCS entered into a factoring arrangement with a New York financing company, Durham Funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Theresa Darlene Snead, age 56, of Suitland, Maryland today to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal over $115,000 in social security benefits. Judge Chasanow also entered an order requiring Snead to pay restitution of $115,388.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: On November 5, 2015, James N. Taylor, a/k/a "James Taylor, Jr.", "James Taylor, II," and "Oolie," 47, of Herrin, Illinois, pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Kyle Adam Kirby (age 35, Live Oak) with possession of child pornography. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. Kirby was arrested on Oct. 28, 2015, at the Live Oak Police Department. His trial is scheduled to begin on January 4, 2016; Kirby is being detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, California - Dos residentes de Bakersfield fueron sentenciados el martes por el Juez Superior del Distrito de los Estados Unidos Anthony W. Ishii por sus implicaciones en una trama de fraude hipotecario en Bakersfield, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Worked With Others to Obtain More Than $315,000 in Fraudulent Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr.(D-Mich.), Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Member on the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, delivered the following statement today after the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion Monday evening upholding a Texas district court ruling against Department of Homeland Security immigration directives issued in November 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: This graphic describes how researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) used pairs of light particles to perform a "Bell test," which supported a key prediction of quantum mechanics by ruling out hidden communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MICHAEL CHAUVIN, age 30, of Houma, was taken into custody today after previously being charged in a one-count Indictment by a federal grand jury with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Jason Ezell, 40, of Lebanon, Tenn., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Kevin H. Sharp, to serve six months in prison and one year supervised release, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Ezell, a former sergeant with the Mount Juliet Police Department, pleaded guilty on July23, 2015, to federal program fraud and wire fraud. The Court also ordered him to pay more than $13,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A grand jury returned a one-count indictment Tuesday afternoon charging Jason Thomas Llewelyn, age 45, of Helper, Utah, with theft from programs receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Pacific, Mo., company was charged in federal court today with violating an OSHA regulation and causing the death of a Raymore, Mo., ironworker.
