News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Senior Immigration Services Officer with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been found guilty of accepting bribes in a long-running immigration fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stacy Ann Froelich, P.E., is the Bureau of Reclamation's Engineer of the Year for 2016. Froelich, a civil engineer, is being recognized for her contribution toward overseeing and supporting several rural water contracts including tribal construction and operation and maintenance contracts with the Oglala, Rosebud and Lower Brule Sioux Tribes, plus construction of the non-tribal rural water system, West River/Lyman-Jones.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Four men pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: The Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold an oversight hearing next week on major federal building construction projects of the General Services Administration (GSA), the agency’s authorities to carry out real estate transactions, and how to ensure taxpayer dollars are protected.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who distributed heroin resulting in an overdose was sentenced Feb. 25, 2016, to more than 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Robert Steven Jones, 28, of Anna, Ohio, with charges related to child pornography and coercion and enticement of a minor in an indictment returned yesterday in Dayton.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to newly-released emails showing Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s top aides warned internally about problems with Flint’s drinking water as early as October 2014, but he and his administration allowed the city to continue using the Flint River for a full year...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced David Ryan Alberts (43, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the victims of his offense. Alberts pleaded guilty in September 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The last of 15 defendants charged and convicted in a methamphetamine and cocaine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, and elsewhere, has been sentenced to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 25, 2016, Rocky Thomas Mayfield, 31, from Goodyear, AZ., was found guilty following a three-day trial for Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine; two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine; and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 25, 2016, Scott L. Fowler, 38, of Mt. Vernon, was sentenced on heroin and firearm offenses, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 2406, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE Act), with a bipartisan vote of 242-161.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of February 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Glendale residents have been found guilty of laundering millions of dollars illegally generated by a health care fraud scheme that billed Medicare for equipment and tests that were not medically necessary and sometimes were never provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. The owner of a Novi, Michigan, restaurant and his wife were indicted on charges of harboring undocumented immigrants forthe purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain and conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Amy Fisher, 36, of Houston, has been convicted of one count of perjury, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of 3D printing. Technological advances in 3D printing have revitalized the manufacturing industry and consumers are already reaping...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW ROSS, 58, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for paying nearly $350,000 in bribes to the former executive director of the West Haven Housing Authority in exchange for government contracts and business.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Two Dallas-Area Doctors and Four Others Charged for Roles in $13.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
