News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Business owners, hiring managers, employment specialists, labor experts, and others to share resources and benefits of including ex-offenders in workforce development strategies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood; Plea Agreement Requires Prison Sentence within Range of 15 to 20 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Boston, MA - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications with it 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. On April 30, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the DEA invites the public to bring their potentially dangerous, unwanted medicines to one of the hundreds of collection sites all over New England.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Boston, MA - During the last and 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day the New England Field Division over the course of four hours collected 67,107 pounds of expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs at 596 collection sites throughout New England. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man who allegedly posted online advertisements in which he fraudulently offered authentic commercial driver’s licenses without the testing and identification requirements will appear in federal court today, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Syteria Hephzibah (62, Jacksonville) guilty of making a false statement on a passport application. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 15, 2016. Hephzibah was indicted on Feb. 18, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia -The Independence National Historical Park announced the appointment of Gina Gilliam as the new Public Affairs Officer. Gilliam will oversee the Park's media relations, partnership, special events and communications activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Wallace A. Lewis, Sr., 26, of Youngstown, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Hector Rueben Padin-Rivera, 39, was indicted yesterday for escaping from the Syracuse Pavilion Residential Re-entry Center on April 4, 2016, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Harvest is one of several factors that potentially affect wolf viewing opportunities in Denali and Yellowstone National Parks. Visitors to national parks were half as likely to see wolves in their natural habitat when wolf hunting was permitted just outside Denali National Park’s boundaries during a period from 1997- 2013. Other important factors linked to wolf viewing rates include, the proximity of wolf dens to the Park Road and the regional wolf population.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine various options on how to address mental health issues in the American health care system...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Indictment Alleges He Was Previously Deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Valencia doctor pleaded guilty today to federal charges for submitting more than $2.4 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 16 of their Democratic colleagues introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, legislation to classify “conversion therapy" ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JEFFERY HOWARD, age 35, of Nicholson, Mississippi, pled guilty today to use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1958(a).
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today had the following question-and-answer session with Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the full Committee hearing on opportunities and challenges in Asia...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Darryl Wesley Clements, age 50, of Detroit, Michigan, and Rodney Patrick Dunn, age 40, of Elkridge, Maryland, with conspiring to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud, arising from a scheme to defraud lenders from February to August 2011 in order to obtain financing for a movie.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALEX OBDULIO CRUZ-MATUTE, age 45, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA ¿ As the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration prepares for its annual National Safety Stand Down To Prevent Falls in Construction from May 2-6, agency officials in Philadelphia have only to look east to Cinnaminson, New Jersey, to find a serious reminder of why the event is so important ¿ and necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO ― A disbarred Illinois lawyer has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that bilked lenders and vulnerable homeowners out of more than $725,000.
