News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Passaic County, New Jersey, today admitted taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today thoroughly debunking a common Republican talking point on citizen lawsuits and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), prompting Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) to call for an end to misleading GOP rhetoric.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - An inmate at the United States Federal Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia [USP Lee] who previously pled guilty in United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to conspiring with others to bring illegal narcotics into the prison, was sentenced yesterday, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Garret Graves (R-LA) released the following statement on the President’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) executive order...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Stefani Bennett, 45, of Salmon, Idaho, was sentenced today to 15 months imprisonment for embezzlement by a bank employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Bennett to serve five years of supervised release following her prison sentence and to pay restitution of $116,945. She pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Two defendants who pleaded guilty to their roles in a pill mill operation they were involved in during parts of 2013-2014 have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, announced today that Alfredo S. DePina, 27, who was convicted of attempting to reenter the United States after having been deported subsequent to a conviction for an aggravated felony, was sentenced to 16 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. DePina is a citizen of Cape Verde, an archipelago located about 400 miles off the western coast of Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca S. Kanter (619-546-7304).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Tokyo-based Takata Corporation, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive safety-related equipment, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and was sentenced to pay a total of $1 billion in criminal penalties stemming from the company’s conduct in relation to sales of defective airbag inflators.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: MIAMI - As a DOE Fellow, Hansell Gonzalez Raymat works with mentors on research to develop solutions to remediate radioactively contaminated soil and groundwater at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Two indictments[1] were unsealed today charging 24 people in violent drug trafficking groups that had operated out of the Norman Blumberg Apartment Complex, a public housing facility in Philadelphia, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The first indictment (Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Today a federal grand jury sitting in West Palm Beach returned a nine-count Superseding Indictment charging three individuals with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and various substantive bank fraud offenses, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1349 and 1344.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Today’s markup of H.R. 1215, the so-called “Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017," is the twelfth time since 1995 that we have considered legislation intended to deny victims of medical malpractice and defective medical products the ability to be made whole and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former pharmaceutical company employee today admitted accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for filling medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications for herself and her husband, causing losses of $956,885, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - A Winchester man, who routinely traveled to Baltimore and brought back large quantities of heroin to Winchester for distribution, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I strongly support this important resolution of inquiry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - James Kenny Crawley, 60, of Amarillo, Texas, appeared today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces Christopher Belt, age 26, of Columbus, Georgia entered a plea of guilty on Feb. 27, 2017 to bank robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in front of District Court Judge Clay D. Land. Mr. Belt entered the guilty plea after a jury had been selected to hear his case.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - Fairway Group Holdings Corp. and its subsidiaries, operating out of New York, posted $1 million in surety bonds with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Two defendants, who pleaded guilty in November 2016 to their respective roles in cocaine trafficking have been sentenced, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
