News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - The United States District Court of South Carolina awarded a $9,283,123.00 default judgment against Lacy School of Cosmetology and Earnest “Jay" Lacy, for presenting false claims to the U.S. Department of Education for federal student loans and grants, the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina William Nettles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man has been indicted for allegedly using the stolen identities of personal acquaintances, car dealers and over 145 Memphis Neurology patients to defraud various financial institutions of more than $1.6 million. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Matthew S. Liebheit, 40, Moro, IL, was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in federal prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release on two counts of Theft, Embezzlement, or Misapplication by a Bank Officer or Employee and one count False Bank Entries. Liebheit was also ordered to pay $140,862 in restitution and a $300 Special Assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Ibrahin Suarez-Venerao, 29, and San Juanita Avalos, 32, both of Corpus Christi, have each been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for credit card fraud and identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Both pleaded guilty to the charges June 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WORCESTER, Mass. - A Berlin man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, money laundering and tax evasion. Eric W. Sliwa,age 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 78 months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release. On October 7, 2015, Sliwa pleaded guilty to a 34-count indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY. WHAT: Representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Sacramento State will join over 400 'youth influencers' for the fourth annual Youth Summit - Lead the Way Outdoors. WHEN: Fri., Feb. 19, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Sacramento State, University Union, Serna Plaza...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Delaware's Congressional Delegation of U.S. Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congressman John Carney (all D-Del.) highlighted the beginning of the application period for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Preparedness Grants program. Applicants must submit their...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), requesting information on the agency’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has sentenced in federal court to 18 months of incarceration; three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $204,252.16 in restitution on his conviction of fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Berlin man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, money laundering and tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2017 HHS Budget." The president submitted his fiscal year...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with a growing threat of cybersecurity breaches, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its ability to protect sensitive information. The committee is “examining the adequacy of FDA’s procedures to protect the trade secrets and confidential commercial information of regulated entities in the food industry."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), requesting information on the agency’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: THE HAGUE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Executive Associate Director Peter T. Edge and Europol Director Rob Wainwright signed an agreement formalizing HSI’s membership in Europol’s Focal Point (FP) Sustrans, which targets organized crime networks involved in money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Using special appropriations from Congress, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska is scheduled to clean up more than 40 percent of those wells identified in BLM's 2013 Legacy Well Strategic Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), a 22.1-million acre roadless area located 200 miles...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was sentenced to prison for her participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving at least 790 stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Adam Chartier, 29 years old, of Puerto Rico, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Feb. 11, 2016 in Puerto Rico on federal charges that he used a telephone, or other instrument of interstate commerce...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE for the 21st Century: Science, Environment, and National Security Missions."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2017 HHS Budget." The president submitted his fiscal year...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached settlements with 51 hospitals in 15 states for more than $23 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements. Saint Vincent Healthcare in Billings is one...
