News published on Federal Newswire in March 2016

News from March 2016


News Release: Used Investor Money for Credit Card Bills, Jewelry, and Home Improvements.


Medical Device Company Employee Charged With Accepting $75,000 Bribe For Securing Contract With His Company

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monroe, New York, man, was charged today with accepting a $75,000 bribe for his assistance in securing a contract between a metallurgical technology company and his employer, a medical device company in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


News Release: Terrorized 20 young girls by extorting sexually explicit photos.


News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Federal agents executed a search warrant and two arrest warrants in Mission yesterday in an alien smuggling investigation, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A resident of Montrose was indicted today in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and sex trafficking of a minor, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker announced today.


Superseding Indictment Charges Owner Of Trucking Business With Fraud

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment was filed today charging Volodymyr Kurylo, a/k/a “Volodya" a/k/a “Vova," 35, of Richboro, PA, and Vitalii Vitiuk, 28, of Philadelphia, PA, with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of conspiracy to produce an identification document without lawful authority, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.


Barren County, Kentucky, Man Guilty Of Defrauding Supplemental Security Administration

News Release: Defendant misrepresented his mental condition to qualify for benefits.


News Release: Renee D. Strauss, 42, of Marion, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to a four-count information charging her with two counts of making false statements to a special agent of the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, one count of providing...


News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Commerce (114th Congress) . Participant List: Roger Daltrey. Rock legend from The Who, and co-founder of Teen Cancer America. Sarah Kennedy. Mother of Brooke and Brielle Kennedy, sisters battling Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) in Mattawan, Michigan, and the inspiration behind...


Former Corporate General Counsel Admits Conspiring To Obstruct Justice In Federal Criminal Trial

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former general counsel of VO Financial Corp. today admitted conspiring to obstruct justice in a federal criminal case tried in 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Conversation On Child Cures

News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Commerce (114th Congress) . Participant List: Roger Daltrey. Rock legend from The Who, and co-founder of Teen Cancer America. Sarah Kennedy. Mother of Brooke and Brielle Kennedy, sisters battling Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) in Mattawan, Michigan, and the inspiration behind...


News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Steven R. Trent, 46, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for using a minor female under the age of 2 years to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.


News Release: Falsified taxpayer education expenses resulting in education credits on prepared tax returns.


News Release: In El Paso today, a federal jury convicted Elizabeth “Betty" Garcia de Nieto of Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, of her role in an income tax return scheme that resulted in more than $2.9 million in fraudulent refunds being issued by the IRS announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.


House and Senate Committee Leaders Seek Answers from Administration on 316 Security Breaches on HealthCare.gov

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republican committee leaders in the House and Senate today asked the administration for information about the 316 security breaches on HealthCare.gov catalogued in a new report released today by the nonpartisan government watchdog, the Government Accountability Office (GAO).


Inhofe Warns EPA to Conduct ‘Neonics’ Risk Assessments with Caution

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Jim Jones, assistant administrator of the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expressing concern with a series of risk assessments being conducted on neonicotinoid insecticides known as “neonics".


Ready to Rock for #CuresNow

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) have the stage set for today’s “Conversation on Child Cures." The all-star lineup of participants is ready to go. Get to know the voices on today’s #Path2Cures...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), and Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) - the top Democrats on committees with jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - today released the following joint statement to highlight the sixth anniversary of the law...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), and Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) - the top Democrats on committees with jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - today released the following joint statement to highlight the sixth anniversary of the law...


News Release: California Man Indicted for Traveling to Thailand and Sexually Abusing Minor Boys.