News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement with Webster Bank to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at all Webster Bank locations, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA").
By DOE Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: The DOE Office of Indian Energy is offering an energy track at the 25th Annual BIA Tribal Providers Conference Dec. 2-3, 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska. The track will feature breakout sessions on a variety of topics to help tribal energy leaders and professionals make informed decisions about energy projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Alwin Peterson, Jr. and three co-conspirators were sentenced late Tuesday for a bank fraud scheme that targeted over 150 Bank of America accounts and involved over $4 million in fraudulent withdrawals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States has settled allegations against several pharmacies and their owners for fraudulently billing TRICARE, the military’s healthcare program. These settlements reflect a wide range of conduct targeting military...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office is initiating river maintenance and wash fan channel clearing at the Quien Sabe Wash Fan along the Colorado River beginning on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. The Quien Sabe Wash Fan is located within the Colorado River Indian Tribe’s reservation perimeter, seven miles north of the Aha Quin Resort at River Mile 151.1 on the California side of the river.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: A federal jury this morning convicted a former owner of San Antonio-based Gourmet Express, LLC, a skillet meals manufacturing and distributing business, for his role in an estimated $3.9 million tax fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Junction City man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for trafficking cocaine in Junction City and Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. Another defendant in the case was sentenced to more than 21 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: He used stolen Social Security numbers to repair credit histories.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Nov. 23, 2015, Deanna Kay Frader, 66, of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 30 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for evading income tax on nearly $1.7 million she embezzled from Ardent Sound, Inc., where she had been employed as an office manager and bookkeeper. Frader previously pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in New Haven today found IAN PARKER BICK, 20, of Danbury, guilty of fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from his operation of Ponzi scheme. The trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer began on November 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Possessed hundreds of images of pornography at his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A charge against a registered nurse was unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with stealing painkiller from the nursing home where she worked, and then attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Edmond Heath, 27, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison, followed by 3 years supervised release, on federal fraud charges, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Heath was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $21,551.85.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division (“DEA"), announced today that RICHARD GALIMI, 46, was arrested yesterday and charged in a criminal complaint for...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Ordered to pay $731,293.52 restitution. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was sentenced this week, by U.S. District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $731,293.52 for mail fraud and for entering into an agreement to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: On Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, three men were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Join members of the Chicago Astronomical Society on the first Saturday night of each month to get a closer look at the evening sky over Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. This month's program meets on December 5, at 5:00 p.m. at the national lakeshore's Kemil Beach parking...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of RAHMAD LASHAD GEDDES, a/k/a “Face," a/k/a “Poo Poo," 36, to 282 months in federal prison for trafficking an 18-year-old woman from Wisconsin to Duluth, Minn., for the purpose of commercial sex. GEDDES, who was charged in a superseding indictment on April 8, 2015, was convicted on April 27, 2015, following a six-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former resident of the San Gabriel Valley who was a major distributor of counterfeit cigarettes in the Los Angeles area has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods.
