News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted distributing large quantities of heroin and oxycodone in and around downtown Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA-A Forest City, Iowa, businessman pleaded guilty today in federal court to failing to pay employment taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The following statement was issued today by House Democrats on the Zika and Military Construction-VA conference committee, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Rep. José Serrano, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDGARDO TORRES, also known as “Eggy," 37, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Andrew Soverns, 32, was sentenced in federal court for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon imposed a sentence of sixty (60) months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Soverns will serve an additional five years of supervised release. Soverns was further ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution to each of two victims depicted in his collection of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - James T. Hammes, 54, formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 96 months in prison. Hammes pleaded guilty in October 2015 to one count of wire fraud and agreed to pay nearly $7.7 million in restitution, specifically, approximately $6.7 million to G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. and $1 million to Cincinnati Insurance Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Misti Baker, 36, of Brandon, Vermont, was arrested today as part of a national healthcare fraud takedown. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered Baker detained pending a detention hearing on June 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Most Defendants Charged and Largest Alleged Loss Amount in Strike Force History.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Two north suburban doctors have been charged as part of the largest national Medicare fraud takedown in history, federal authorities announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - The owner of Gire Roofing, Inc., and its corporate parent, Grayson Enterprises, Inc., of Champaign, Ill., have been charged on multiple federal immigration violations. Edwin J. Gire made his initial appearance in federal court in Springfield on June 21, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough. A trial date of Aug. 2, 2016, is scheduled for Gire and Grayson Enterprises, doing business as Gire Roofing, Inc., in Springfield.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Employer name: DOLGENCORP LLC, doing business as Dollar General Store #398
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Basile, 65, of Blacksville, West Virginia was sentenced today to twelve months and one day in prison for unlawful possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Jason M. Smith, 35, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statement commending President Obama for signing into law H.R. 2576, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which modernizes the Toxic Substances Control Act. Pallone, who was a lead House...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today issued the following statement on the White House report on.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today provided an update on the progress made by the bipartisan encryption working group...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, all 23 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats issued the following statement in response to a provision in Speaker Paul Ryan’s latest health care proposal that would cap federal Medicaid spending...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Energy & Power Subcommittee Hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, praised the decision Judge Scott Skavdahl of the U.S. District Court of Wyoming to strike down the Bureau of Land Management's final fracking rule from March 2015 to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn returned an indictment charging Yolanda Vitulli, the executive director of a charity that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities, with embezzling approximately $100,000 from the charity for her personal use.
