News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A grand jury Wednesday returned a new indictment against Topeka developer Kent Douglas Lindemuth charging him with lying under oath in an effort to hide assets in a bankruptcy, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James Moody today sentenced Stacy Darnell Mitchell (48, Tampa) to nine years and one month in federal prison for theft of stolen government property and mail theft. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $2,085,649.50 and ordered him to pay restitution to the Social Security Administration in the amount of $720,881.60. A federal jury found Mitchell guilty on Jan. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Two Toledo-area men were sentenced to prison for stealing more than $1.1 million from hundreds of people through a fraudulent loan-modification scheme, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and founding co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, today joined with Reps. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Bradley S. Schneider (D-IL), and Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) to introduce the bipartisan Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2017 (H.R. 1911 ).
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: The House today passed the Self-Insurance Protection Act (H.R. 1304), legislation that would protect access to affordable health care options for workers and families. Introduced by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), the legislation would reaffirm long-standing policies to ensure workers can continue to receive flexible, affordable health care coverage through self-insured plans. The bill passed by a bipartisan vote of 400 to 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: APR 05 - BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. - On April 5, 2017, Dr. Peter Katz, a licensed physician practicing in Boynton Beach, Florida, was arrested at his residence in Boynton Beach, on state charges of willingly and unlawfully writing a prescription for hydrocodone/acetaminophen, a Schedule II controlled substance for which there is no medical necessity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 48 months imprisonment, followed by five years supervised release, on a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of Children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: On March 31st, 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Saint Louis as part of a national listening tour of law enforcement concerns and issues.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is recruiting one Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) to spend the summer in the park learning about the resource and developing education programs. The application deadline is May 1, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: National Park Service. Homestead National Monument of America. 8523 W. State Hwy 4. Beatrice, NE 68310. 402-223-3514 phone. 402-228-4231 fax. www.nps.gov/home. National Park Service News Release. -April 5, 2017. Susan Cook 402-223-3514. Alison Grand, Grand Communications (for Ready Jet Go!/ Wind Dancer Films)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dehaven Pollard, age 36, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for robbing a local restaurant and using a firearm in furtherance of robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury indicted a San Antonio man for allegedly attempting to evade paying approximately $900,000 in taxes announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called for a reinstatement of IRS budget funds to help crack down on tax cheats and better protect taxpayer information. In two letters to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Wyden recognized growing cyber threats to taxpayer information,...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester nurse was sentenced today in connection with stealing painkillers from the nursing home where she worked, and then attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Inland Empire man was named today in a federal grand jury indictment that charges him with a series of child exploitation crimes for allegedly coercing six boys around the nation to send him sexually explicit videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Clearwater woman was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison on a drug trafficking charge, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHANNON CHRISTOPHER CEASAR, M.D., age 44, a physician and former co-owner and operator of Gulf South Physician’s Group in Metairie, pled guilty today to Counts 1, 2 and 3 of a Superseding Bill of Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TAKIEM EWING, a/k/a “Mulla," pled guilty to firearms offenses in connection with the fatal carjackings of two livery cab drivers: Maodo Kane, who was killed in the Bronx on August 5, 2014, and Aboubacar...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Bergen County, New Jersey man today admitted purchasing more than three kilograms of heroin from a source in Bronx, New York, and re-selling it to drug dealers in Paterson, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JUAN SALAMANCA-CHAVEZ, age 32, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
