News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Nicholas Rivera, age 41, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison today by United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner, in Harrisburg for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Susan R. Thompson (58, Jacksonville) with two counts of making false statements to a federal officer. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Millennium Health, formerly Millennium Laboratories, has agreed to pay $256 million to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary drug testing and genetic testing, and provided kickbacks to physicians to induce business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced three defendants in two cases for trafficking methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: WHITEHALL, Wis. - Ashley Furniture, the nation's largest retailer of home decor, faces $431,000 in proposed federal safety and health fines for failing to protect workers from moving machine parts at its Whitehall upholstery factory. This penalty is in addition to more than $1.8 million in fines issued earlier this year during inspections at other company facilities in Wisconsin.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $12.5 million in loans and grants for 39 projects that will help rural businesses in 21 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Luis Armando Moreno-Ayala, 35, a national of Mexico, was sentenced in federal court Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief United States District Court Judge, sentenced Moreno-Ayala to a ten-year term of imprisonment. There...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a letter to Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) pressed the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to call for a ban on transport of bulk shipments of lithium-ion batteries on passenger...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Former Senior Level Corporate Employee to Plead Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jason Chickos, 46, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the perfect story for the Halloween season. digging up bones from a long neglected grave. The infamous Roger Williams tree root will be on display at Roger Williams National Memorial as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta today announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Donnelly, 47, of Lecanto, Florida was charged today by information in an investment scheme that bilked his friends and clients of nearly $2 million, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Donnelly is charged with one count of wire fraud and with one count of securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: On October 6, 2015, Conrad Valdez, Jr., 45, of Selma, California, was charged by indictment with possession with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Thursday, Oct. 22, the Committee will convene a hearing entitled, “Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence." The hearing, which comes as a wave of violent attacks continues across Israel, will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PETER M. CLARK, 57, of Woodbury, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of mail fraud related to his stealing more than $1.8 million from the estate of an Oxford woman who died in 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: A man who pleaded guilty to trespassing charges will serve three years of probation, pay restitution, and is banned from Grand Canyon National Park. His sentence was handed down in federal district court on October 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced charges against seven individuals involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy reaching from Indianapolis to Lawrenceville, Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two Bakersfield residents were sentenced Tuesday by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in Bakersfield, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Byron Deweldon, 45, of Warwick, has been ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with failing to register as a sex offender, in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
