News from November 2015
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s plans for continued oversight of Obamacare’s CO-OPs. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Charles E. Moynihan, who is handling the case, stated that on May 22, 2015, Hogan entered the Chase Bank just after it opened and passed the bank teller a note demanding money. The note also indicated that nobody would be hurt if the teller complied. The teller provided Hogan with a specific amount of United States currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), attended the National Heroin Conference held on November 18-19, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference was sponsored by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Federal and state authorities are seeking to identify anyone who suffered a financial loss as a result of dealings with Budget Finance Company, Inc. of New Martinsville, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 30.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 30.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation signed a Record of Decision, supported by the Central Valley Project Municipal and Industrial Water Shortage Policy Final Environmental Impact Statement, specifying how Reclamation intends to allocate Municipal and Industrial water supplies during a Condition of Shortage. Elements of the CVP M&I Water Shortage Policy include...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s plans for continued oversight of Obamacare’s CO-OPs. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The formal assessment of Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) Force Review Board (FRB), the high-level internal accountability body established during the reform process to review and analyze significant uses of force, has found SPD to be in initial compliance with specific provisions of the court-ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE -Vicente Rene Ramirez, Jr., also known as Little Gangster, 33, of Jerome, Idaho, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for unlawful possession of a handgun and possession of a sawed-off shotgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Ramirez to serve five years of supervised release following his release from prison. Ramirez pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2015 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today made the following statement: "As one growing season comes to an end and another lies on the horizon, USDA continues to seek out new and innovative ways to expand opportunity for America's farming families and support markets ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Privatbank IHAG Zürich AG (IHAG) reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. IHAG will pay a penalty of more than $7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Led Plan to Carry Out Bombing of Crowded Shopping Center in Manchester, England, During Easter Holiday as Part of Global Terrorism Plot by al-Qaeda Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Abid Naseer, 29, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Raymond ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: The United States filed a civil injunction suit seeking to bar James Tarpey, a Montana-based attorney, Project Philanthropy, Inc. (a District of Columbia corporation which does business as Donate for a Cause) and Timeshare Closings, Inc. (a Colorado corporation which does business as Resort Closings, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: A Fort Lauderdale, Florida based government contractor pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to filing a false income tax return, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy for his role in an investment fraud scheme that promoted fraudulent investment opportunities and caused more than $5 million in losses to investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Former Hospital Executive, Doctors and Two Others Admit Roles; Agree to Cooperate In a series of related cases announced today, the former chief financial officer (CFO) of a Long Beach, California, hospital, two orthopedic surgeons and two others have been charged in long-running health care fraud schemes that illegally referred thousands of patients for spinal surgeries and generated nearly $600 million in fraudulent billings over an eight-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Two North Carolina businessmen pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA (Deutsche Bank Suisse) reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. Deutsche Bank Suisse will pay a penalty of more than $31 million.
