News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Immigration and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI), Customs and Border (CBP), along with other federal, state, and local law enforcement today concluded a 15-month, nationwide drug interdiction effort that resulted in 151 arrests in 16 states. The enforcement...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today previewed a number of topics to be examined by the subcommittee in the coming weeks. Highlights include oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, the economic impacts of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, and a hearing on broadband infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week sent letters to 17 state health exchanges as the committee continues its investigation of the federal government’s oversight of state health exchanges established under Obamacare. The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee recently held a hearing to review how the federal government spent more than 5 billion taxpayer dollars on failed or failing exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: A 10-count indictment was filed charging a Garrettsville executive with withholding nearly $250,000 from his employees’ paychecks but not paying the taxes over to the government, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigations, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - A Phenix City, Alabama, woman was sentenced to serve five years in prison today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for her involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud (SIRF) scheme, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today previewed a number of topics to be examined by the subcommittee in the coming weeks. Highlights include oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, the economic impacts of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, and a hearing on broadband infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Oct. 15, 2015, Andrew Jose Espinoza, 43, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months (188 months) in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine, a mixture or substance containing cocaine, and a mixture or substance containing marijuana on Oct. 16, 2014. Following the prison term, Espinoza will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Levi Lawrence Morefield, age 30, of Ellensburg, Washington, was sentenced today for distribution of heroin. United States District Court Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Morefield to a 15 year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a three year term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today previewed a number of topics to be examined by the subcommittee in the coming weeks. Highlights include oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, the economic impacts of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, and a hearing on broadband infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport community mental health center, Westwood Mental Health LLC, and its parent company, MedSouth LLC, have agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute allegations.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week sent letters to 17 state health exchanges as the committee continues its investigation of the federal government’s oversight of state health exchanges established under Obamacare. The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee recently held a hearing to review how the federal government spent more than 5 billion taxpayer dollars on failed or failing exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Lori Hilbourn, 30, of East Lampeter Township, PA, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for manufacturing child pornography and distribution and possession of pornographic images that depicted her own child. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl ordered 15 years of supervised release and a $400 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Glenn Sorge, the Acting Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE"), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and Robert E. Perez, the Director of New York Field Operations for U. S. Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Michael James Alderman, age 42, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced after having previously plead guilty on July 31, 2015 to Possession of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Investigations led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in the Los Angeles area have resulted in the arrest of over a dozen defendants allegedly involved in the large-scale manufacture and distribution of synthetic drugs that are commonly called “spice."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today the unsealing of fraud charges against Guatemalan businessman, Roberto Montano (a/k/a Jorge Roberto Montano Pellegrini). The charges, contained in a Criminal Complaint filed on Dec. 29, 2014, allege that Montano defrauded...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building off its work to examine drinking water challenges for small and rural communities, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Technical Assistance for Rural Water Systems: S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 36, of Yorktown, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for attempted espionage relating to his attempt to provide schematics of the Navy’s newest nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to Egypt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTONIO OLMEDA of New York, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman to 151 months in prison. OLMEDA pled guilty on Oct. 14, 2014, to all six counts charged in the Indictment...
