News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Q. Givhan, 34, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was charged by grand jury indictment, unsealed late yesterday, with multiple counts of sex trafficking and interstate transportation for prostitution, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: On May 20, 2016, Scott E. Smith, a thirty-one year old St. Louis, MO, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Smith is scheduled for...
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a bipartisan draft of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016, legislation to address the needs of America’s harbors, locks, dams, flood protection, and other water resources infrastructure and help strengthen the Nation’s economic competitiveness.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is excited to announce a polka dance led by the River Boys Polka Band during Homestead Days on Saturday, June 18, 2016 from 4-6 p.m. The dance will take place at the Education Center near the stage. On Sunday, June 19, 2016 they will perform from 4-5 p.m.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding more than $4 million in grants to 23 organizations to support rural economic development projects. Secretary Vilsack also announced that USDA is seeking applications for the next...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A suspended physician pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of health care fraud. CHARLES S. DEHANN, 61, of Belvidere, Ill., pleaded guilty before Judge Frederick J. Kapala to two counts of health care fraud in a scheme to defraud Medicare that included overbilling and billing Medicare for treatment of patients that were already deceased.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: SHOSHONE, ID - A broken cable has rendered BLM’s historic swinging Sheep Bridge unsafe for both foot and livestock traffic. The bridge hangs 30 feet above the Big Wood River and connects Timmerman and Bennett Hills with the Wood River Valley at the confluence of Rock Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 36-year-old woman from Lubbock, Texas, Paula McNeal, who pleaded guilty in January 2016 to one count of health care fraud, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $104,088 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced today to 72 months’ imprisonment after being convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Teenager After Threatening to Beat Her.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE CARABASE, 41, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax evasion.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 23.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrested Made in Connection with a Robbery in Plantation, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kwame Davis, 42, of Pawtucket, a former manager of a storage facility business located in Pawtucket, was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and heroin from his office at the storage facility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Lyneth Nyabiosi, age 50, to 48 months in prison, and her husband, Willie Evans III, a/k/a “James Davies" and “James Davis," age 54, both of Bear, Delaware, to 41 months in prison, both followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SIDNEY PATTERSON, a/k/a “Duda Man" age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act “RICO," as well as drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy and murder charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Following a three day trial in United States District Court in Jackson, a jury found Lindsey Johnson, age 28, of Jackson, guilty of armed carjacking, felon in possession of a firearm, and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Lorenzo Snow, 43, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A suspended physician pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of health care fraud. CHARLES S. DEHANN, 61, of Belvidere, Ill., pleaded guilty before Judge Frederick J. Kapala to two counts of health care fraud in a scheme to defraud Medicare that included overbilling and billing Medicare for treatment of patients that were already deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: But Opioid Addiction a Growing Problem Regionally and Nationally.
