News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Adan Sanchez, 45, of Rosenberg, Texas, and Omar Sanchez-Vasquez, 49, of Guy, Texas, were sentenced today on...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Roosevelt Fox, aka Unc, 54, of Newport News, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is offering an energy track at the National Reservation Economic Summit (RES) March 22-23, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The track will feature breakout sessions designed to assist tribal energy leaders and professionals in developing strategic energy solutions and making informed decisions about energy projects.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Employer: Wardman Hotel LLC, doing business as Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Jury Finds Air Force Veteran Guilty in First Conviction After Trial in the United States for Attempting to Travel Overseas to Join ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Ricardo Alberto Chaires, 34, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The Laredo resident pleaded guilty Nov. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of United Transport Tankcontainers Inc. (UTT) has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marcella Jones aka Marcella Jones-Hatch, 45, of Houston, pleaded guilty Oct.6, 2015, admitting she caused a loss of nearly $1.8 million to her former employer.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after Peru’s Electoral Court excluded leading presidential candidate Julio Guzman from taking part in April’s presidential election...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Odessa, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to receive child pornography over the Internet. Anthony O. Terry, 37, of Odessa, was sentenced...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to move forward with Dr. John King’s nomination to the position of U.S. Secretary of Education by a vote of 16 to 6. In prepared remarks submitted for the record, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking member of the committee made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that PETER HOFFMAN and SUSAN HOFFMAN were sentenced today for their roles in a scheme to defraud the State of Louisiana out of film infrastructure tax credits.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after Iran’s launch of two more ballistic missiles today...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) proposed changes to the Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Clorenzo Griffin, 38, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for planning and participating in the robbery of marijuana from drug dealers in Yuba City, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Roosevelt Fox, aka Unc, 54, of Newport News, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 7, 2016, Arturo Reyes Trujillo, 43, of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake. Trujillo was elected municipal president (mayor) in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico in 2012. He was arrested on Sept. 6, 2012, and previously pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SHEENA DUME, 23, formerly of Greenwich, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Santiago Martinez, 39, of Weslaco, has been ordered to prison for 10 years following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Martinez pleaded guilty April 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted the director of nursing assistants at Passages Hospice for participating in a scheme to bill Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary hospice services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2016
News Release: Submitted Fake Documents and False Information to Obtain Car Loans, Defrauding Lenders; Also Agreed to Sell Vehicles to Other Individuals, Took Their Money, But Did Not Provide the Cars.
