News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Carlos Alexander Davila, 23, of Edmond, was charged yesterday with production and possession of child pornography, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: A new grant program created by the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act to address major highway projects and improve the transportation of freight across the country has received over 200 grant applications from state and local governments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Former Miami-Dade Police Department Officer Lazaro Ponce was arrested for his participation in a bribery and kickback scheme, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 666(a)(1)(B), and 666(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Aaron G. Seltzer, age 39, of Trappe, Maryland, today to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud in connection with a scheme in which he converted funds intended for real estate investments to his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Kalamazoo, Michigan, Man Charged with Multiple Counts of Sex Trafficking and Interstate Transportation for Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant faces 15 years in federal prison for child pornography crimes committed in both the Northern and Southern Districts of WV.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sent a letter.pdf) to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske requesting more information about his agency’s efforts to control the smuggling of dangerous synthetic fentanyl, a powerful opioid that has been credited with a sharp rise in overdose deaths. The Senate Finance Committee has jurisdiction over the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 125,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN- U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced that Ronald Mingle, age 73, a physician assistant from Alma, Michigan, was sentenced to pay $62,900 in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid, a $15,000 fine, and to serve six months of home detention for accepting $12,600 in illegal kickbacks...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Eyob Tilahun, 30, of St. Louis, MO, formerly the owner of a local tax return preparation business known as "Tax King," pled guilty to a charge of conspiring to submit false claims to the United States Government.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A grand jury sitting in Houston has returned an 11-count indictment against several individuals to include current or former law enforcement officers, in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced five appointments to the 15-member National Pork Board. All five appointees will each serve 3-year terms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: A felon was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in federal prison for possessing a loaded firearm on the streets of Cedar Rapids last fall.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A grand jury sitting in Houston has returned an 11-count indictment against several individuals, to include current or former law enforcement officers, in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: “Codeshop" Website Sold Troves of Stolen Credit Card Data and Bank Account Logins on the Black Market from 2010 to 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that two more defendants have been convicted in Operation Goldy Locks for their roles in a multi-state heroin ring which involved disguising heroin as oxycodone pills in order to maximize profits. Both defendants remain in custody and are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 1, 2016. A total of eleven (11) defendants were indicted in this matter. Five (5) defendants have been convicted thus far.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Government entered into an out of court settlement agreement with Hospicio La Paz, Inc., in connection with a False Claims Act investigation carried out by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and the...
By Commerce 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: WASHINGTON - An Oregon woman pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims, one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for running a federal income tax refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Eric Donys Simeu, a/k/a Martell Collins, a citizen of Cameroon, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer fraud and access device fraud. Simeu was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on Sept. 23, 2014.
