News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John R. Burrows, 54, of Weston, West Virginia, was convicted of synthetic drug trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania today announced a new policy for bringing more severe charges against persons who distribute heroin in Central Pennsylvania and for tougher sentencing recommendations by federal prosecutors in heroin cases.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: As part of a multiyear effort to make the most of its federal investment in U.S. manufacturing, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a new cooperative agreement for the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership (MEP) center in Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell sentenced Theresa A. Aley (52, Cape Coral) on Oct. 30, 2015, to three years of probation, including a 60-day period of house arrest, for making a false statement regarding federal workers’ compensation benefits. The court also ordered her to pay $83,465 in restitution to the federal government, which amount was paid in full on Nov. 10, 2015. Aley pleaded guilty on June 16, 2015.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kouame Innocent Tanoh, 53, of Ashburn, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, followed by three years of supervised release. The defendant also was ordered to pay $671,760 in restitution and $651,769 in a forfeiture money judgment.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2013, Summary Report to the President and Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - A married couple has pled guilty to partaking in a scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $400,000 by making fraudulent medical equipment orders and paying illegal kickbacks. Four defendants were previously indicted in the scheme - three in February 2015 and one in October 2015. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty pleas today.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture will hold a joint hearing next week on the role played by the maritime industry in the transportation of food aid and how proposed changes to existing food aid programs and cargo preference rules would affect that historic partnership.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was invited to participate as a panel member at the 2015 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Convention which was held on November 3-6, 2015 in New Orleans. U.S. Attorney Florence...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On November 5, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned two separate indictments against thirteen and nine defendants respectively charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez...
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement on the terrorist attacks in Paris...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Failed to Transfer More Than $2.4 Million in Payroll Taxes to the IRS and Stole More Than $53,000 from the Employee Pension Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Was Arrested by U.S. Marshals Service in New York City.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-In honor of the National Park Service Centennial, join avid hikers Gary and Connie Grube for a season of guided adventures through the backcountry of Petrified Forest National Park. The Grubes have logged hundreds of miles hiking and volunteering with the park. Join them as they share their favorite gems of the Petrified Forest.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Disrupter Series: The Fast-Evolving Uses and Economic Impacts of Drones."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Amy Hilty, 38, formerly of Stanley, N.C. and now residing in Dalton, Ohio, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler today and pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $400,000 from her former employer, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Hilty pleaded to one count of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has found Michael Holmes (51, Jacksonville) guilty of possessing multiple firearms as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former chief information officer for the Screen Actors Guild’s Producers Pension and Health Plan (PPHP) has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in which he failed to report income he received from contractors hired to upgrade the PPHP computer system.
