News from April 2016
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) yesterday urged the State Department’s Assistant Secretary Anne Patterson to help put a stop to the Palestinian Authority’s perverse program - funded in part through foreign assistance - that pays stipends to Palestinians convicted of murder or terrorism against Israeli citizens. Watch video of the Chairman’s questioning HERE.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has played an integral role in development, testing and recent approval of a new alternative, environmentally-friendly, bio-based jet fuel, bringing the total number of these approved products for use in air travel to five.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Charlene Leak, 46, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with conspiracy and bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that in 2009, Leak worked as a check runner in a $1.2 million check fraud conspiracy run by Phillip...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Timothy P. Gallagher, 46, of Jay, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to federal program fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Hector Miguel Diaz-Osuna, age 35, originally from Sinaloa, Mexico, entered a guilty plea today, before U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, for the death of a correctional officer during a 2012 prison riot at the Adams County Correctional Center in Adams County, Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that Boston Medical Center (BMC) and two of its physician practice organizations have agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that BMC improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Closes Investigation After Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Takes Significant Steps to Reform its Use of Solitary Confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, man today admitted using online messaging applications to solicit nude photos from minors and transmit a lewd photo to a girl, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment against an inmate serving a sentence at the State Correctional Institution, Smithfield, Huntingdon County, PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Chinese National Arrested for Illegally Attempting to Export High-Grade Carbon Fiber to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Godfred Obeng, age 38, of Glen Allen, Virginia today to three years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to commit bank fraud, using an unauthorized access device and aggravated identity theft. Judge Hazel also ordered Obeng to pay restitution of $338,548.45.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston heroin dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Joshua Walls, 22, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced BALAL THEO CHOUDHARY, a/k/a Paco Choudhary 28, of Lumberton, North Carolina, to 140 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging EBONY SHANTE YARBROUGH, 27, for filing fraudulent income tax returns for friends and family and stealing the identities of minors to obtain tax refunds.[1] YARBROUGH is charged with nine counts of making false, fictitious...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Complaint Seeks Forfeiture of Funds in At Least 20 Accounts Worldwide Stolen from American Company Through International Business E-Mail Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider multiple pieces of legislation, including the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Reauthorization Act. The following actions were taken by the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Denise Renee Nelson-Marchetti, 46, of Lander, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on April 12, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Nelson-Marchetti was arrested in Lander, Wyoming. She received two years of probation and was ordered to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Wayne Scott Harrington, age 67, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to an Information filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, charging him with money laundering, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - An Ohio man who unlawfully possessed a firearm at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been sentenced to federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Julius Ripley, 60, of Richmond, pleaded guilty yesterday for his in role the robberies of a Sprint Wireless store located in Colonial Heights and the robbery of a Verizon Wireless store located in Mechanicsville. Ripley was also ordered to pay $49,002 in restitution to the victims of the offense.
