News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, United States District Court Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Anthony C. Neal to one year and one day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Neal pleaded guilty in July 2016 to engaging in a seven-year health care fraud scheme and conspiring...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Shuster and LoBiondo Opening Statements. Hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Enabling Innovation in the National Airspace". April 4, 2017. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The United States is the birthplace of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to five years in prison for extortion and conducting an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former resident of Alpine, New Jersey, today admitted defrauding investors out of more than $5 million, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) issued the following joint statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Programs for 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as a Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative; Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative that Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 47-year-old San Antonio businessman Elpidio Gongora (aka “Pete Gongora") was sentenced to four years in federal prison for a scheme to defraud personal injury clients; evading payment of more than $1.6 million in taxes; and, attempting to hide assets valued at $429,000 from...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Munising and Grand Marais, Michigan - The Log Slide Overlook located about seven miles west of Grand Marais in the eastern side of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Peterly Netus, 25, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States through claims, three counts of false claims against the United States, and with aiding and abetting, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Carlton M. Butler, age 36, of Montezuma, Georgia was sentenced to serve 30 years (360 months) in federal prison for distribution of crack cocaine and using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to his drug trafficking crime. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia on March 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Stephen A. Turner, 36, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Turner will also be subject...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony McCutcheon, 51, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal jury yesterday found Biyu Situ, 48, owner of Mayflower and Blue Angel Massage Parlors, guilty of two counts of bribery of a public official. The verdict followed a two and a half day trial. Situ faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 15 years for each count when she is sentenced on July 24, 2017, by Senior District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Ronald McCullough, 45, of Atlanta, GA to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. He also was ordered to make payment of $1,726,400 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Columbia, SC -Zakaryia Abdin, 18, of Ladson, South Carolina, was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury sitting in Columbia, South Carolina. He was arrested by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force on Thursday evening, March 30, 2017. He made his initial appearance in the United States District Court the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today marked Equal Pay Day and reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: “Good morning! And thank you for attending today’s event. I wish I could be there with you in person, but please know I am there with you in spirit. I also want to share some thoughts with you on today’s topic: the representative payee program, which was established in 1939. The last time this program was updated was 13 years ago.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced the Committee will mark up the nomination of Robert Lighthizer to serve as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in an executive session on Thursday, April 6, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Six area home health care workers and patients were charged with making false statements to Medicaid regarding home healthcare services that were neither received nor provided. All of the Indictments involve allegations that the defendants made false statements in Medicaid timesheets...
