News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that GREGORY DUSTIN GOULDMAN was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Meir Daller, M.D. has agreed to pay $3.81 million to the government to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by causing claims to be submitted to federal health care programs for laboratory tests that were not medically necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Jason M. Smith, 36, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: (Calumet, MI) Are you looking for something to do on Saturday? Come to the Calumet Visitor Center for the newly launched youth Story Hour. Join park rangers, volunteers, and community members as they read aloud children’s stories from 1:00-2:00pm. Adults can explore the exhibits throughout the building...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing today to examine the failures and consequences of the 2010 health care law and to discuss patient-centered solutions toward better, more affordable health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that ROBERT BOONE, 43, of Leland, North Carolina, was sentenced in federal court to 360 months imprisonment after having previously been convicted of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that John Timothy Cannon, a/k/a “Mr. JT.," age 63, of Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, was convicted Monday by a federal jury in Columbia, of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that GREGORY DUSTIN GOULDMAN was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY G. SCIARRA, 53, of Wethersfield, formerly of Marlborough, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of wire fraud stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded individuals and couples of more than $874,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Kristopher Gale Hanks, 40, of Ashburn, Va., was sentenced by United States Senior District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to three years’ probation. Hanks had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver misbranded drugs into interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Danville, VIRGINIA - A Martinsville man, who produced images and videos of himself raping a four-year-old girl, was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Danville, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of using stolen identities to applying for car loans, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Three Franklin County, Missouri, residents have been sentenced for their participation in a conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud in the Eastern District of Missouri.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) defended the importance of Medicaid today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Strengthening Medicaid and Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable":
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. McGahn: We are writing to request information about disturbing reports we have received that officials from the Trump Transition Team threatened to remove Inspectors General after the inauguration. We would like to know who originally ordered and approved this action, as well as who carried...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Pain management physician Dr. Robert Windsor has agreed to the entry of a $20 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by billing federal health care programs for surgical monitoring services that he did not perform and for medically unnecessary...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting to consider the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The remarks came in response to the committee's Democrats boycotting the business meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 31, 2017, Tommy Allen, a.k.a. Bert, 30, of Kingsport, Tenn., formerly of Forrest City, Ark., was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine. Upon his release from prison, he will be on supervised release for five years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today kicked-off its first hearing of the 115th Congress examining the electricity sector’s efforts to respond to cybersecurity threats.
