News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that the United States Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina with the State of Florida, settled claims of health care fraud with HCA Holdings, Inc. f/d/b/a HCA, Inc. f/d/b/a HCA - Hospital Corporation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Federal investigators examined Dasilva’s cellphone and also located a video of a child performing oral sex on Dasilva. Sexton admitted to being the person who took the video. Several online chats were also recovered from the cellphone in which Sexton and Dasilva graphically discussed engaging in sexual conduct with children.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Derek Lamar Tompkins, age 20, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland pleaded guilty today to bank robbery and forcing a bank employee to accompany him without the employee’s consent; and to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Former Tallassee, Alabama, Assistant Police Chief Pleads Guilty to Beating Suspect During Interrogation.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, earlier today Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, took to the Senate floor responding to debate on Syrian Refugees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Thomas Wade Callen, 52, of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawful possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Callen to serve 12 months in prison for violating his supervised release in a previous case. Callen pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 18, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, commended the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following its announcement that is has obtained a clean financial audit for the third year in a row...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Truck Driver Smuggled Alien Across Border from Canada.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and Driving International Development." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Pepe Anetipa has been sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to serve 30 months in prison for filing false tax returns that cheated the United States Treasury out of more than $2 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) sent a letter to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze, outlining concerns with the BLM’s proposed revisions to how the federal government measures and verifies oil and gas production rates on federal lands (Onshore Orders 3,4, and 5).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Tuscaloosa postal carrier pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to accepting bribes to deliver packages of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) issued the following statement in response to various calls to suspend efforts to accept Syrian refugees...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Settles Americans with Disabilities Act Employment Discrimination Case Against Bolivar County, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: These bills are part of the Committee’s bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Man pled guilty to trafficking in counterfeit cigarettes before U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas in Fort Lauderdale.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), released the following statement after the House passed H. Res. 524, a bipartisan resolution they introduced, which condemns the recent terror attacks in Paris that claimed 129 lives...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Dylan M. Aste (619) 546-7621.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Release Date: 17 November 2015. Contacts: Charles Barr charles_barr@nps.gov 229 924-0343, ext. 112. NR15-10. Toys for Tots at Andersonville National Historic Site. National Prisoner of War Museum new donation location. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site is pleased to announce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California woman today admitted her role in a large-scale conspiracy to steal 94,000 credit and debit cards from customers at approximately 80 Michaels’ Stores in 19 states and to then use that information to make fraudulent withdrawals from the bank accounts of those customers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
