News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging William A. Dennis (55, Spring Hill) and Thomas Herris Sigler, III (45, Land O’ Lakes) with conspiracy to interfere with an interracial couple’s enjoyment of their constitutionally protected housing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a Federal Grand Jury has returned a 46-count superseding indictment against six individuals charging approximately $13,655,094 in Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 53-year-old Sulphur Springs, Texas man has been found guilty of child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that James G. Wheeler (age 30) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Pamela Pepper to 228 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in the Nov. 18, 2014 attempted armed robbery of Bouchards in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The attempted armed robbery was committed by two masked men, both of whom were armed with handguns.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing policy considerations regarding per capita Medicaid caps...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Girl in the District and in Maryland.
By State Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: A medical device saleswoman was convicted yesterday on charges of conspiring to transport stolen medical devices in interstate commerce, money laundering and other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jerry Rolon-Alvarez, 37, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining federal mental health parity laws and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Pled Guilty to Shooting Victim During Late Morning Argument.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Thursday, September 8, 2016, Scott Raymond Beard, 46, a former Deschutes County Sheriff Captain and resident of Deschutes County, Oregon, was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane for stealing over $200,000 in public funds he was entrusted to manage. At least sixty-three times over a two-year period, Beard falsified records to steal money designated for use in combating drug crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining federal mental health parity laws and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Michael Bailey, 61, of Sacramento, to 12 years and seven months in prison for receipt of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: G.F. Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced Richard Bynes, III, age 30, of Newton, Georgia was sentenced to 180 months (15 years) by the Honorable Leslie Abrams, United States District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia after his guilty plea for Discharging a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Mr. Bynes was sentenced as a career offender based on his two prior bank robbery convictions in 2005.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Eastern National, in partnership with Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, invites the public to join AuthorDavid A. Powellat the Eastern National Bookstore to sign his final title to the Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, Chickamauga Campaign--Barren Victory from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, September 16 -17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Sarah J. Greene, 38, and Michael C. Mullen, 35, both of Wellsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, methamphetamine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on September 7, a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted Matthew S. Norris, age 34, a Hanover, PA businessman on bank fraud and money laundering charges.
