News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Nicole Caudill (28, St. Petersburg) to nine years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute crack and powder cocaine. She pleaded guilty on Dec. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today that the government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit and filed a complaint against a Morris County, New Jersey, couple and their diagnostic imaging companies for knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare for thousands of falsified diagnostic test reports and the underlying tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BONNEY J. HEBERT, 60, of Killington, Vermont, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $10 million from Hartford-based Aetna Life Insurance Company.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a joint hearing of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees on the rise of radicalism, growing terrorist sanctuaries, and the threat to the United States and American interests abroad...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Late yesterday, a federal jury convicted Pensacola resident Robert M. Grafton Jr., 29, of attempted enticement of a minor for sex. Additionally, Grafton pled guilty to possession of child pornography just prior to jury selection. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The office manager of a home health company at the center of a $50 million fraud scheme in New Orleans was sentenced to prison today for participating in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Two men separately pled guilty to possession of mail that had been stolen from various condominium complexes throughout Broward County, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: A defendant was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for arranging a fraudulent short sale of a 10-acre residential property in Southwest Ranches, Florida. A restitution hearing is scheduled for Jan. 22, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation Wednesday to require that supplemental certifications and background investigations be completed prior to the admission of certain refugees into the United States. The legislation serves as a Senate companion to the bill the House will consider later this week. Chairman Johnson said this following introduction of the bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States has returned approximately $11.7 million in civilly forfeited fraud proceeds to more than 1,000 victims who invested or deposited money with e-Bullion.com, a website that operated for years as an illegal money-transmitting business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Former Carroll County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Pleads Guilty to Using Taser on Restrained Pre-Trial Detainee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STEVEN GAETA, age 41, of Kenner, was sentenced today for crimes involving the possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Committee on Natural Resources today held a legislative hearing on the Protecting America’s Recreation and Conservation (PARC) Act discussion draft, which proposes to reauthorize and reform the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Chairman Bishop commented following the hearing.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement this evening on the Obama administration’s decision to delay its plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Gabriel Leon-Torres (Tampa, 33) to seven years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 13, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 1737, the Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act. The legislation would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ability to protect minority consumers from being charged abusive and predatory interest rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Gary Delima, 26, and Sharif Cargo, 26, both of Brooklyn, New York, with Sex Trafficking by Force and Coercion, Coercion and Enticement to Engage in Prostitution, and Transportation for Prostitution. Delima was also charged with the Sex Trafficking of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Heather Jaye Skidmore, a 38 year old resident of Spanish Fort, Alabama was sentenced today to 48 months incarceration followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute approximately 120 grams of methamphetamine ICE.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Nov. 18, 2015 BOS 2015-213. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - As Davide Nascimento worked on the installation of a sewer line in an excavation on Hazardville Road in Longmeadow on July 31, 2015, a portion of roadway above the excavation collapsed and broke a six-inch water main pipe. Water from the pipe filled the...
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) and Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul (R-TX) will convene a joint hearing entitled “The Rise of Radicalism: Growing Terrorist Sanctuaries and the Threat to the U.S. Homelands." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
