News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Two Defendants, Owners of CCMGRX, LLC, Were Indicted Earlier this Year in This Scheme That Involved Claims for Compounded Pain and Scar Creams.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT TERRY BRUCE, 35, of Overland Park, Kan., formerly of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to three years of probation, the first six months of which BRUCE must spend in home confinement, for defrauding contributors to an organization he established after the December 2012 school shootings in Newtown.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Smith, III, 48, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of mail fraud for a decade-long scheme to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Local 970 of over $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gina Paglianite, age 48, of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment for selling cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican Mafia member who was the primary “shotcaller" of the El Monte Flores street gang, and another man who was a key leader of the gang, have each received 15-year prison terms after pleading guilty to federal racketeering offenses. A third man who was a member of the gang has received a sentence of nearly 11 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced yesterday Dina R. Garfinkel, a.k.a. Dina Drake, Dina Lebovitch, and Ruth Lebovitch, to 41 months in prison on mail fraud charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Garfinkel, 69, of New York City, was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision after she is released from prison and to pay $400,000 as restitution to her victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAMIEN BRYANT, 41, of Ledyard, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack") and cocaine. BRYANT also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release that followed a previous federal conviction by committing the drug offense and associating with convicted felons while on release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Eleven people fraudulently obtained multiple credit cards and quickly maxed out the credit limits, with no intention of ever paying back the balance, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former accountant for an investment advising company pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a fraud scheme in which he stole more than $3.5 million from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the former chief executive of two non-profit health clinics for the poor and homeless to 18 years in prison for funneling millions in federal grant money to private companies he formed to contract with the clinics. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: The Capitol Reef National Park Visitor Center is currently open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm through October 29.Free interpretive programs will include: a geology talk at the visitor center at 10:00 am, Prehistoric Culture talk at the Highway 24 petroglyph panel at 3:00 pm, and occasional campground evening programs at 7:30 pm as staffing allows. Beginning Oct. 30, 2016, visitor center hours will be 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily through the winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke sentenced John Blayne Vangastel, 37, of Klamath Falls, to five years of probation following his guilty plea to one count of using force or threat of force to intimidate and interfere with the housing rights of his neighbors because of their Vietnamese descent.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Utah Senator Says Final Rule “…marks another critical milestone in the implementation of this historic law.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Two Wisconsin Men Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - Valles Caldera National Preserve will initiate prescribed burn projects beginning early next week, dependent upon suitable weather and fuel conditions. The prescribed burn will take place within an approximately 1,200-acre project area in the Banco Bonito district of the preserve...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a field hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. HST at the Hawaii State Capitol located at 415 South Beretania Street, Room 325, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Oct. 14, 2016)-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Eliot L. Engel, and Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to ...
