News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) has long been a popular destination for its natural resources, rich cultural history and daytime recreational activities. It also offers visitors an extraordinary opportunity once the sun has set. Located far from sources of urban light pollution...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging Mohammed Jabbateh, 49, a citizen of Liberia residing in East Lansdowne, PA, with immigration fraud and perjury, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Staton, Homeland Security Investigations. Jabbateh, a/k/a “Jungle Jabbah," is charged with two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Utah Senator Says, “Make no mistake, this bill is about protecting jobs and consumer interests across the country.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Former Health Care Clinic Consultant and Biller Sentenced to 135 Months in Miami for Role in $63 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Leawood, Kansas, business owner was convicted today of tax fraud following a month-long jury trial, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Barry R. Grissom of the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - With the annual tax filing deadline approaching, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner noted that his office had taken a number of criminal enforcement actions in recent months in tax evasion cases in the Eastern District of California. The U.S. Attorney’s Office works with the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation and other law enforcement partners to enforce federal tax laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Leonard C. Boyle announced a statewide initiative targeting narcotics dealers who distribute heroin, fentanyl or opioids that cause death or serious injury to users.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and 15 additional members of Congress introduced the American Manufacturing Competitiveness...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARCELINO OLAVE-GRANJA, age 46, a citizen of Colombia, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Billed For Anesthesia Services Administered By Dental Assistants.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say regarding the Government Accountability Office’s sixth annual report detailing unnecessary duplication in the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Dover, Mass. insurance broker was arrested today in connection with filing fraudulent personal tax returns.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “America’s Insatiable Demand for Drugs." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On April 12, 2016, Alfred Latrell Jackson, 25, and Curtis Lee Kemp, 49, both of Iowa City, Iowa, were found guilty following a four day jury trial for their involvement in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Camillus Resident Was Five Months Pregnant.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Former Augusta State Medical Prison correctional officers John Williams, Antonio Binns and Justin Washington were charged in the Southern District of Georgia with a civil rights violation for their alleged role in the beating of an inmate, known as C.V., on Feb. 13, 2014. Binns and Washington were also charged with one count of obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Demetres Ish, 23, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ish was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Oct. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Linda Davis Griffin, 48, of Warwick, owner of Vision Adventures, LLC, a Providence based property ownership and management company, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to one count of alteration of bankruptcy records, admitting to the court that she falsified bank documents in order to conceal the conversion of bankruptcy estate funds to her own use.
