News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that TODD BEILBY, 55, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Garland, Texas, man, Brian Dwayne Glass, 35, was sentenced this afternoon by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 84 months in federal prison, following his guilty pleas in February 2016 to six counts of bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement on yesterday’s not-guilty verdicts in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after receiving a letter from the FBI explaining that it would review new emails related to its investigation of Secretary Clinton...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A federal jury has found a cardiologist from Ashland, Ky., guilty of charges that he fraudulently billed Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers for invasive heart procedures that were medically unnecessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging John R. Biggerstaff (39, Jacksonville) with using a facility of interstate commerce to promote, manage, establish, and carry on a prostitution business. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Faliero, 53, of Franklinville, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. In addition, the defendant was sentenced to 15 months in prison (to be served concurrently to the 12 month sentence on the gun charge), for violation of
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kyle Kuroski, 24, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Franklyn Morillo, 41, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and cocaine. Morillo appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter his guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Life Sentence Follows Guilty Verdict After Federal Murder Trial.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to conduct a prescribed burn as early as Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, in the northern portion of the Senator Wash Area. The start date and time for the burning operation depends on weather and may be delayed until appropriate conditions occur.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Investigation into the Death of Mikhail Lesin Has Closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Samantha Renehan, 29, of Lebanon, New Hampshire and Jamie Smith, 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possession of materials to manufacture methamphetamine and conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: St. Augustine FL- Throughout the month of November, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument will be offering programs to commemorate Native American Heritage Month.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) today sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) requesting a subcommittee hearing to evaluate the current state of the video marketplace in light of the proposed $85 billion sale of Time Warner to AT&T.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that the U.S. Department of Education (“the Department") has agreed to follow her recommendation and recognize its existing authority under a provision...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Detroit-Area Home Health Care Agency Owner Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Wendy Askins, 55, of Red Boiling Springs, former Executive Director for the Upper Cumberland Development District (UCDD), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger to 18 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for misusing the organization’s funds, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Trauger also ordered Askins to pay $233,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging John R. Biggerstaff (39, Jacksonville) with using a facility of interstate commerce to promote, manage, establish, and carry on a prostitution business. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: OCT 28 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Todd Beilby, 55, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
