News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Rowland Heights doctor was convicted today of three counts of second-degree murder for prescribing massive quantities of addictive and dangerous drugs to patients with no legitimate need, three of whom died of overdoses. A jury of ten women and two men found Hsiu Ying “Lisa" Tseng, 45, guilty of 23 counts, including 19 counts of unlawful controlled substance prescription and one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: A man who wholesale distributed synthetic drugs commonly known as “K2" and “bath salts" was convicted by a jury after a 3-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced that a South Florida man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, Ohio, in connection with the prosecution of a nationwide prescription drug diversion scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man responsible for fatally shooting an off-duty Memphis Police officer has been indicted federally, along with his wife. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MURPHY, 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling numerous firearms that had been stolen from the Smith & Wesson manufacturing plant in Springfield, Mass.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A jury deliberated for approximately three and one-half hours this afternoon before returning verdicts of guilty against Marcus B. Fifer, 44, for production of child pornography. Fifer, of Springfield, was convicted on 17 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Administration’s announced plan to deploy Special Operations Forces to Syria...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement as reports surfaced that Iranian-American Siamak Namazi has been arrested by the intelligence arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a unit that reports directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MURPHY, 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling numerous firearms that had been stolen from the Smith & Wesson manufacturing plant in Springfield, Mass.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (Regional San) are preparing a joint Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the South County Ag Water Recycling Program (Project).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Pelaralyss Young has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her role in the Dec. 20, 2012, robbery of the Catoosa Teachers Federal Credit Union, in Ringgold, Georgia. Young’s co-conspirator, Laron Burns, was sentenced in the Eastern District of Michigan to 18 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that Laramie resident Timothy Michael Wells has been convicted in federal court. A jury found Wells guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, attempted coercion and enticement, incest, and abusive sexual contact after a three-day jury trial in the United States District Court in Cheyenne. Wells is scheduled to be sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Jan. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office sponsored training by Glory Gervacio Saure, Director of the Honolulu Local Office for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In her capacity as Director...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gilbert Rosales, 43, of Dinuba, Calif., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his cocaine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - KELLEY BARATTA was sentenced to 30 months in prison involving her scheme to embezzle money from her employer while she was controller of the company. Barrata was also ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to her former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on Oct. 28, 2015, Justin Hayes, 40, was sentenced in federal magistrate court to 104 days imprisonment on one count of assaulting, resisting, opposing, and interfering with a federal officer, in connection with an...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN VASQUEZ-ALVARADO, age 47, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert Lee Foster, a former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme in which he defrauded three women of approximately $500,000. Foster was also ordered to forfeit $499,622.54 and pay $503,003.37 in restitution as part of his sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) wrote a letter to Acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff commending the FDA for issuing draft guidance to help businesses comply with final menu labeling requirements...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today.
