News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Dr. Enyibuaku Rita Uzoaga, 43, has been ordered to serve 42 months and pay restitution to Medicare and Medicaid as a result of her six convictions of health care fraud and one count of conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in Houston returned guilty verdicts Nov. 3, 2015, against Uzoaga following four hours of deliberation and a six-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly attempted to use her credentials to bring nearly 70 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International (LAX) on Friday has been charged with a federal narcotics trafficking offense.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, today led a bipartisan letter co-signed by U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) - members of the Senate Agriculture Committee - calling on the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Early today a federal grand jury returned an indictment against two Soldotna men, charging them with trafficking in synthetic cannabinoids, informally known as “spice." The two men are also charged with firearms offenses, in connection with Spice trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: David and Kathryn McPeters convicted of conspiring to defraud Social Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: In El Paso today, 27-year-old Ignacio Gallegos was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Branchburg, New Jersey, man appeared in federal court today to face charges for his alleged role in a conspiracy to produce sexually explicit images of children through a website he operated from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Boston - Twenty seven individuals, many of whom are affiliated with the Lenox Street Cardinals, and other street gangs operating in the Lenox Street Housing Development area of Boston’s South End, have been charged with federal and state drug and firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of the Interior today launched the next step in the comprehensive review of the federal coal program to identify and evaluate potential reforms to ensure the program is properly structured to provide a fair return to taxpayers and reflect its impacts on the environment, while continuing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Denis Nikolla pleaded guilty to two counts of Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy, one count of threatening physical violence in furtherance of an extortion plan, and one count of brandishing a firearm. The proceeding took place before United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) held a panel discussion Wednesday entitled, “Conversation on Child Cures." The discussion, headlined by Roger Daltrey of The Who and co-founder of Teen Cancer America, featured patients and advocates.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - In an attempt to spur action to begin meaningfully addressing the nationwide problem of abandoned hardrock mines, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and five Democrats on the Committee sent a letter this morning to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) to request a hearing on two bills that would allow these abandoned mines to be tackled head-on.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) held a panel discussion Wednesday entitled, “Conversation on Child Cures." The discussion, headlined by Roger Daltrey of The Who and co-founder of Teen Cancer America, featured patients and advocates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G.F. Peterman, III, today announced the sentencing on March 24, 2016 of two individuals in an insurance fraud scheme. The sentences were handed by Senior District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in federal court in Albany, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced new appointments or reappointments of members to Colorado’s citizen-based Front Range Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Dear Chairman Burns: As you know, nuclear power serves as our nation’s largest source of reliable, carbon-free energy and plays an important role in our efforts to address climate change. However, as the United States’ commercial nuclear reactor fleet ages and has begun to shutter in recent years, we...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, today announced a hearing on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development programs before the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy. Roberts serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Ernst serves as Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy and will chair the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Phillip Sean Anthony, 32, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 84 months (seven years) in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to his victims. The sentencing follows Anthony’s guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Former Tate County, Mississippi, Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced for Unlawful Tasing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Federal indictments were unsealed yesterday revealing that 24 Savannah residents have been charged with federal firearms and drug-trafficking offenses. The federal indictments are the result of joint federal and state efforts to reduce violent crime and gang activities in the Savannah...
