News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: In Waco, a jury returned guilty verdicts against 55-year-old DTS Medical Supply Company owner Daniel Thomason Smith and 45-year-old DTS office manager Kathleen Marina Kelly-Tuorila in connection with an estimated $3.5 million Health Care Fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A disbarred New York attorney was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for his involvement in a ticket resale fraud scheme and a real estate investment fraud conspiracy that bilked multiple victims out of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Conspiracy Operated Out of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs Areas of DFW Metroplex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tressie Montene Duffy, 46, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to twelve months and one day in prison for unlawful distribution of narcotic painkillers, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that HARVEY LEE STONE, age 52, of Ferris, Texas, was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Ferdinand Javier Ruiz, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by information with attempted possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; and attempted possession with intent to distribute...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nomination of Andrew Mayock to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed drug rule for Medicare Part B...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that that a federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted Jamel Rosa, age 27, a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary Schuylkill (“USP Schuylkill"), in Minersville with resisting and assaulting corrections officers during an incident on July 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Scott Driscoll Bailey was sentenced for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. The defendant admitted he planned to use prescription muscle relaxers as part of a sexual encounter he sought to have with a young girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Kenneth Dykes, 50, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of three counts of bank robbery and for violating the terms of supervised release for a 2006 bank robbery conviction, was sentenced to 175 months in prison by U.S. District Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KATE LOHAN, age 33, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for committing assault while aboard an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bufred Denetclaw, 53, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sheep Springs, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 100 months in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. Denetclaw will be on supervised release for three years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the leader of one of Birmingham’s largest cocaine- and heroin-trafficking rings to nearly 23 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot, and Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KATE LOHAN, age 33, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for committing assault while aboard an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Davis took more than $140,000 in payments for no-show job.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Baden, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and tax fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Western WY -Teton Interagency fire managers announce that the fire danger rating is High for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, and Teton Interagency Dispatch Area. The potential for fire activity has increased due to drying vegetation combined with higher temperatures, low humidity, and brisk afternoon winds.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Mr. McGurk, I’d like to thank you for again appearing before the committee. You have always been a direct witness, and we thank you for that. I think after most of your testifying, whether classified or in public, most people leave far more informed than they do with most witnesses. Hopefully you’ll live up to that today.
