News from July 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Fresh off the heels of their Wednesday briefing on Capitol Hill, the folks behind Hope for Gabe kicked off Ride4Gabe 2016 today in Maine. As 11-year-old Duchenne patient and all-star rare disease advocate Gabe Griffin said this week, “We must pass #CuresNow!" Learn more about Gabe’s story here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Three men responsible for stealing eight rifles from a West Tennessee pawn shop have been collectively sentenced to 180 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Charles Butler, 33, and Robert Paschalis, 25, both of Toledo, were charged with a federal hate crime today for beating an African-American stranger they saw on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Bonita Kitson, 45, of Boscawen, New Hampshire, who pleaded guilty to one count of Social Security Fraud, two counts of Making False Statements, and one count of Wire Fraud on April 21, 2016, was sentenced today to two years of probation, including four months of home confinement, and was ordered to pay $28,788 in restitution, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler M. Purvis-Mitchell, 22, of Albany, New York, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Charles Butler, 33, and Robert Paschalis, 25, both of Toledo, were charged with a federal hate crime today for beating an African-American stranger they saw on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment Thursday against Jose Soto, 35, of Lamont, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Soto was arrested today at his home on those charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Used False Identity and Obtained U.S. Passport in Order to Avoid Child Support Obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Dale Sims, Jr., 34, of Gerrardstown, West Virginia, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal grand jury sitting in Portland, Oregon returned a 39-count indictment against Julie Ann Demille, 58, of Clackamas, Oregon, a nurse practitioner licensed in Oregon, Osasuyi Kenneth Idumwonyi, 55, of Spring, Texas, her office manager, and a total of 17 other co-conspirator defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Indiana Gospel Singer Found Guilty of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DERRICK GILLIAM, 29, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiring to commit seven armed robberies in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: A former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer was sentenced to 52 months in prison late yesterday for depriving an arrestee, identified in court documents as M.W., of his civil rights by assaulting him and forcing a gun into his mouth while the victim was handcuffed, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: A jury has convicted a Muncie, Indiana, man of 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of distribution of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis of the Central District of Illinois. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Lexington County Health Services District Inc. d/b/a Lexington Medical Center located in West Columbia, South Carolina, has agreed to pay $17 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law) and the False Claims Act by maintaining improper financial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement today with YMCA of the Triangle in Raleigh, North Carolina, to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying a child the opportunity to participate in an after-school program because of his Type 1 diabetes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: A former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer was sentenced to 52 months in prison late yesterday for depriving an arrestee, identified in court documents as M.W., of his civil rights by assaulting him and forcing a gun into his mouth while the victim was handcuffed, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the government has filed suit under the False Claims Act against Derish M. Wolff and Salvatore J. Pepe, respectively the former CEO and CFO of Louis Berger Group Inc. (LBG), for conspiring to overbill the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and ...
By Fed Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: CCF Holding Company, Jonesboro, Georgia Written Agreement dated Oct. 19, 2010 Terminated July 22, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday permanently barred Thomas H. Huston and T. Mark Huston, former officers of Columbus Junction State Bank, Columbus Junction, Iowa, from the banking industry for engaging in improper financial activity and concealing or attempting to conceal that activity from state and federal bank examiners.
