News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Daniel J. Bakowski, 35, of Springville, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in interstate commerce after a felony conviction, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attacked Ex-Girlfriend, Her New Boyfriend, and Her Grandmother.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were indicted today for their roles in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent education charity.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during House Floor consideration of the Conference Report to Accompany S. 524 - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - The Department of Justice announced on July 7, 2016, that it has reached a settlement with Seattle Cancer Care (SCCA) relating to losses of more than 96,000 pills of oxycodone between 2011 and 2013. SCCA self-reported the diversions after discovering that a nurse employed at the cancer care...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On July 7, 2016, Jeffrey Lewis DeWitt, 28, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud and conversion of mortgaged property, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. DeWitt was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and pay a total of $395,968.20 to eleven of his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Houston men have been handed significant sentences following their convictions related to the armed bank robbery of a Katy area Chase Bank in 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Keith Stephens, 28, Keon Jackson, 28, and Duquam Mathis, 22, all of Houston, pleaded guilty Oct. 19, 2015, to bank robbery and discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) today praised House passage of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to fight the nation’s growing opioid epidemic. The agreement includes a legislative proposal championed by Reps. Barletta and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Brandon Daniel Enright, 29, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over today’s hearing, and ordered Enright also to serve ten years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a former employee in the Hospital Food and Nutrition Services Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with stealing more than $1 million over about six years from a cash room she oversaw, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: On July 6, 2016, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area received a report of two overturned kayakers near the Carr Powerhouse on Whiskeytown Lake. Park rangers and firefighters responded along with the California Highway Patrol helicopter. One of the kayakers was assisted by two other unassociated kayakers...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: PARTICIPANTS. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot - M.D., F.A.C.P., President-elect of the Catholic Medical Association. Prepared remarks . William J. “Bill" Cox - President of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care. Prepared remarks . Cathy DeCarlo - Nurse, New York. Prepared remarks . Richard Doerflinger - Former...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the implications of the Obama administration’s decision to unlawfully fund Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) program. The program was the focus of a joint report issued by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Second Rape Occurred Outside a D.C. Middle School on Thanksgiving 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Derek Leon Mantilla, 21, an 18th Street Gang member formerly of Fairfax, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Mantilla was also sentenced to 20 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Allegedly defrauded elder family and friends before, while and after being imprisoned.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Enclosed below are Ranking Member Diana DeGette's remarks as prepared for delivery at the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled "The ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program: Ramifications of the Administration’s Decision on the Source of Funding for the CSR Program":
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Gregory Sykes-Bey, age 22, of Baltimore, today to 24 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the UDH organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
