News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for robbing a gas station, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that LUKE AUSTIN HOMER, age 35, of McAlester, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging him with POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 5 GRAMS OR MORE OF METHAMPHETAMINE (Actual), in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Robert Majors, 58, of Spring Hill, Tenn., was sentenced today to 20 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $600,000 from his former employer, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger also ordered Majors to pay $642,500.00 in restitution and to forfeit the proceeds of his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the recent unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup on H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup on H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today passed bipartisan legislation to reform our nation’s mental health system by a vote of 53-0. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, was introduced by Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Patients Died Because No Radiologist Reviewed X-Rays; Defendant Cheated Medicare and Medicaid of More Than $6 Million.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Renewable Fuel Standard - Implementation Issues."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Guy Christopher Mannino, 57, of Fairbanks, was sentenced today in Anchorage to 17 years in federal prison for his convictions for soliciting the murders of a witness and two federal law enforcement agents.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)/Initial Study (IS) for a project to construct new water. conveyance facilities that would allow Porterville Irrigation District (PID) to supply surface water to 2,120 acres that currently...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Tony Ivey, 52, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with threatening to assault or murder a Federal law enforcement officer with the intent to interfere with the officer while performing official duties. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on June 14, 2016, a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Tony Knott, age 32 and Antoine Whitfield, age 26, both federal inmates at the United States Penitentiary Canaan (“USP Canaan"), in Waymart, Pennsylvania, with assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) introduced a bipartisan discussion draft of postal reform legislation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office requesting a review of the Office of Emergency Communications’ (OEC) handling of funds. The OEC, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is tasked with supporting various programs and organizations aimed at improving public safety communications and interoperability.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Yorba Linda chiropractor who solicited more than $2 million from investors in a real estate scam has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U. S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced the owner of Alpha Diagnostics, Rafael Chikvashvili, age 69, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for charges related to a health care fraud and wire fraud conspiracy resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Donnell Calloway, age 30, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to robbery conspiracy, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
