News from November 2016
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Patients can’t wait. That’s the message from over 200 of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations. A letter spearheaded by the National Health Council is urging bipartisan Congressional leaders, as well as The White House, to move forward and pass the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: NOV 17 - NEW HAVEN, Conn - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ramon Gomez, also known as “B.I.," 40, of Uncasville, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to sex trafficking of a minor and heroin distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Leonel Gomez-Hernandez, a/k/a Fernando Hernandez, 26, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Nov. 17, 2016, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Gomez-Hernandez was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Patients can’t wait. That’s the message from over 200 of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations. A letter spearheaded by the National Health Council is urging bipartisan Congressional leaders, as well as The White House, to move forward and pass the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Deborah Pierce, St. Louis, Missouri, was indicted today for embezzling more than $380,000 from a joint educational venture between her employer, Webster University, and a Chinese government cultural agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: In two related cases, seven residents of Miami-Dade County pled guilty to conspiracy charges arising from their involvement in a complex mortgage fraud scheme involving two condominium conversion projects in central Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: To spur significant innovation and growth in advanced manufacturing, as well as save over $100 billion annually, U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet needs for measurement science and “proof-of-concept" demonstrations of emerging technologies. This is the overall conclusion reached by economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: JPMorgan’s Investment Bank in Hong Kong Agrees to Pay $72 Million Penalty for Corrupt Hiring Scheme in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev.-A man was convicted on Wednesday for threatening to take the life of the President of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jerry Fruit, age 36, and Tykei Garner, age 33, both of New York City, were indicted on Nov. 16, 2016, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and over 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. B Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Grant Harris, age 36, of Carbon County, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that former Mississippi correctional officer Deonte Pate, 23, pleaded guilty today to helping conceal the beating of an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Ruben Dario Pena-Ortiz, 43, a/k/a “Willie Diaz Rosa," a/k/a “Lorenzo Echavaria," of Allentown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about June 1, 2016, Pena-Ortiz, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about August 8, 2004 and Nov. 19, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Julio De La Cruz, 53, of Anchorage was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 10 months in federal prison for his part in a scheme to defraud the State of Alaska Medicaid Program out of approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for using a telephone to make a threat to damage and destroy a building by means of an explosive.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ronald Mason, 47, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison for mail fraud offenses that involved the theft of more than $650,000, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. Mason previously pleaded guilty on June 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - JPMorgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited (JPMorgan APAC), a Hong-Kong based subsidiary of multinational bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), agreed to pay a $72 million penalty for its role in a scheme to corruptly gain advantages in winning banking deals by awarding prestigious jobs to relatives and friends of Chinese government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David Harper, age 50 of Henderson, Nevada, was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison followed by five (5) years of supervised release on one count of Knowingly Crossing State Lines...
