News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Co-Conspirators Called Individual Victims, Impersonating IRS Employees, to Convince Innocent Taxpayers That They Owed Taxes.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on the administration’s fiscal year 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 46 count superseding indictment charging 16 officers and members of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC) in a major racketeering operation that involved high ranking officials including the national president, regional and chapter presidents. Ten of the defendants are from Western New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members examined various issues related to the FCC’s policy decisions and the process by which it reaches them, including FCC process reform, the FCC’s actions regarding set top boxes, and Commissioner Wheeler’s proposal to impose new privacy rules on Internet service providers (ISPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two heroin dealers appeared today in federal court on drug charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gavin Edwards, 32, of South Charleston, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for distribution of heroin. Edwards was also sentenced today to a year in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Charles B. Harris, age 48, of Ninety-Six, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Anderson, for conspiracy to defraud the United States. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Harris to 20 months imprisonment and ordered him to pay over $45,000 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a stunning reversal during today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Tom Wheeler admitted that he wants the FCC to have the ability to regulate broadband rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: A Virginia man was charged in federal court with enticement of a minor and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Coastal International Security, Inc., based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, agreed to pay a total of $1.65 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations that the company defrauded the State Department during performance of a security contract and later concealed the fraud from contracting officials, and civil allegations that the company improperly obtained and used competitors’ pricing information to underbid competitors on government task orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On March 18, 2016, Lori Kristine Bentler, 44, of Salem, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 30 months in federal prison for defrauding the M.H.I. Credit Union in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Bentler was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following her prison term, pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and pay $249,250.51 in restitution.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: On Tuesday, March 22 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Strengthening Education Research and Privacy Protections to Better Serve Students." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Turkish National Arrested for Conspiring to Evade U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, Money Laundering and Bank Fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: HAVANA, March 21, 2016 - As part of President Obama's historic trip to Cuba to further normalization of relations, advance commercial and people-to-people ties, and express our support for human rights for all Cubans, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced several measures that will foster ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached a historic settlement agreement today with Barrios Street Realty Inc., a company based in Lockport, Louisiana. The agreement resolves claims that the company and its agent, Jorge Arturo Guerrero Rodriguez, discriminated against U.S. workers by preferring to hire foreign workers under the H-2B visa program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: A civil complaint was filed today in the U.S. District Court for Kansas against Native American Enterprises LLC, of Wichita, Kansas; its Vice President and part-owner, William N. McGreevy and is production manager, Robert C. Conner, to stop the distribution of adulterated food, the Department of Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today revealed new data from its innovative Smart on Crime Initiative that show charging decisions by federal prosecutors in fiscal year 2015 resulted in prosecutors' focusing on more serious drug cases and fewer indictments carrying a mandatory minimum. Meanwhile, prosecutions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Decision Follows TRO Halting Anticompetitive Sale to Owner of L.A. Times Today, the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California approved Digital First Media as the purchaser of Freedom Communications Inc., publisher of the Register in Orange County and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside County, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: A Florida audiologist was sentenced to 94 months in prison today for her role in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: A Charlotte, North Carolina, area resident was sentenced to 41 months in prison today for his involvement in a fraudulent tax return scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Charges Unsealed against Three Defendants Who Allegedly Engaged in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Transactions on Behalf of the Government of Iran and Iranian Entities as Part of a Scheme to Evade U.S. Sanctions An indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of New York against Reza Zarrab, ...
