News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: A Miami resident pled guilty to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Stefon Janey, a/k/a “Stef," and “Stef Luva," age 23, of Marlow Heights, Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiring to participate in the activities of the Simple City Criminal Organization (SCCO), a racketeering enterprise engaged in fraud and related activity in connection with access devices, wire fraud, bank fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Basilio Amaury Bron, Jr. (35, Fort Myers) to seven years and three months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the handgun and ammunition that had been used in the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: A place to highlight the absurd, the inefficient, and waste in the federal government.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: On Monday, May 2, 2016 you are invited to join the Natural Resources staff to take a walk on Virginius Island to learn how to identify and record invasive plant species using your smartphone.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the recently scheduled markup of bills to curb identity theft and tax refund fraud and bolster other taxpayer protections...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Euris Daniel Paulino Guerrero, 24, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to two counts of distribution of the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl and one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -Bon Secours Health System, Inc., located in Marriottsville, Maryland, and one of its surgical oncologists, Dr. Eugene Y. Chang, M.D., of Suffolk, have agreed to pay $400,000 to settle civil fraud allegations that while at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth, Dr. Chang billed Medicare and other federal healthcare payors for non-covered breast examinations and ultrasounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: A resident of Highlands County, Florida was sentenced to 30 years in prison, by United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, for distributing, receiving, and possessing images that depicted the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee Markup of seven bills, which included his Securing Access to Networks in Disasters (SANDy) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four restaurant owner/managers in the State College area were sentenced on April 15, 2016 by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann in Williamsport in a case involving conspiracy to transport, harbor and conceal illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Leaders from Muslim and other communities invited United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz to lead a civil rights dialogue Friday evening at a mosque in Wayland. Community members and local, state and federal government officials gathered to address discrimination and affirm the Justice Department’s commitment to protecting civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant lied about his identity to border officers in Massena.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Senators to Sec. Kerry: U.S. Law Prohibits Sending U.S. Funds to U.N. Climate Convention
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), is scheduled to mark up the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016 and several additional measures at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Humberto Ceballos-Rangel (Ceballos), 38, of Tuxpan, Jalisco, Mexico, was sentenced today to three years in prison in connection with his involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation found by law enforcement last summer in the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: IONU Security, Inc. (“IONU") a Defense contractor based in Longmont, Colorado will pay $450,000 under a civil settlement with the United States Department of Justice, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. this afternoon. The settlement resolves allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government in violation of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, as well as certain other claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Robert Orth, 30, of South Ryegate, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal charges of possessing with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of his heroin trafficking, and possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. The Court imposed a term of ten years’ imprisonment.
