News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Tourism to Sagamore Hill creates $2.4 Million in economic benefits following a three-year rehabilitation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a legislative hearing examining two energy bills to improve our nuclear power landscape. Nuclear energy generates 20 percent of our electricity and produces zero greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The final of four individuals that participated in a scheme to file false claims for federal tax refunds for tax years 2008 through 2011 was sentenced today to two years in prison. Ninety-three false federal income tax returns were filed by the defendants as part of a scheme, which claimed approximately $335,297 in fraudulent refunds and which caused a loss to the United States government of $184,464.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: On April 27, 2016, a Miami jury found a Kissimmee, Florida resident guilty of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Employer Summit Wraps Up National Reentry Week Events in North Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man who was previously incarcerated for robbing a Citizens Bank in Philadelphia and a Cape Bank in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 71 months in prison for robbing the same two banks after his release in April 2015; he was sentenced to an additional 24 months - to be served consecutively - for violation of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that Barbara Jean Kelsey of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to a total of 78 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and substantive money laundering crimes. Kelsey pled no contest to the charges on Nov. 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and U.S. Senator Cory A. Booker will deliver remarks this afternoon at the third graduation hosted by the “ReNew" court, a partnership among the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Public Defender’s Office, and the U.S. Probation Office designed to help ex-offenders recently released from federal custody successfully reintegrate into society.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, 30 Senate Democrats and 13 House Democrats wrote to Secretary of Education Dr. John King urging him to create strong protections and a streamlined path to debt relief for student loan borrowers in the Department’s forthcoming “borrower defense" rule. The Senate and House letters...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Administration’s first report required by the Customs law on the foreign exchange policies of major trading partners...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Russell Hermann, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations, New York Field Office (“FDA-OCI"), announced that ROBIN DELEONROSA, a/k/a “Magic," a/k/a “Robin...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL J. VATTER pled guilty today to wire fraud in connection with state pension benefits before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel in White Plains federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Wayne Shelby Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, a former Fox News commentator who has falsely claimed he spent 27 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), pleaded guilty today to major fraud against the government, wire fraud, and a firearms offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that a criminal complaint was filed against Nicholas Baez, a/k/a “Cali", 22, of Hammond, Indiana for causing the death of another through the use of a firearm in connection with a narcotics conspiracy.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Service’s release of final menu labeling guidance included in the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement lauding plans by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to propose a rule on Monday to bring fair chance policies to federal hiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 15-count indictment charging MARC ALEXANDER, 35, of Stratford and Oxford, RACHAEL ALEXANDER, also known as Rachael Vierling, 38, of Stratford and Oxford, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - Ten individuals have been indicted on federal drug charges for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of highly pure methamphetamine. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and 32 Republican committee Members sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding a new agency rule that will affect how health care plans are designed and sold on the Obamacare exchange.
