Month: October 2013

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel on the Bipartisan Framework to Replace Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate Formula

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2013.  Today, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, issued the following reaction to the release of the bipartisan Senate-House framework for replacing Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR, mechanism: The bipartisan framework introduced today to replace the flawed and costly Medicare[Read More…]

Champaign County Man Sentenced on Theft Conviction

Springfield—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced a Champaign man was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty late yesterday to stealing assets reserved for his disabled mother’s care. Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd sentenced Daryl E. Wrona, 47, of Urbana, to the Illinois Department of Corrections[Read More…]

Army Releases September 2013 Suicide Information

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2013.  The Army released suicide data today for the month of September 2013. During September, among active-duty soldiers, there were nine potential suicides: One has been confirmed as a suicide and eight remain under investigation. For August 2013, the Army reported 12 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers:[Read More…]

California Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS and Aggravated Identity Theft

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California announced that Noemi Rubio Baez, of Salinas, Calif., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file false claims for tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and[Read More…]

Former U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier Sentenced to Prison for Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 111 months in prison and three years supervised release, along with an order to pay $82,791 restitution, for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme , announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice[Read More…]

Co-founder of Liberty Reserve Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in Manhattan Federal Court

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Vladimir Kats, 41, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.  The charges stem from his role in running Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the[Read More…]

Owner of Texas-based Ambulance Service Convicted of Health Care Fraud

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. A federal jury in Houston has convicted Gwendolyn Climmons-Johnson, 53, of multiple counts of health care fraud for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance services. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of[Read More…]

Remarks by President Obama at SelectUSA Investment Summit

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2013 – 1:40 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you very much.  Please have a seat. To my great friend, Penny Pritzker, thank you for the kind words, but more importantly, thank you for your outstanding leadership, for bringing us all together today, and being[Read More…]

Former Cook County Forest Preserve District Engineer Charged With Accepting $10,000 in Kickbacks From Two District Contracts

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2013.  Two facilities of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, which were spruced up in 2011, became part of an FBI sting investigation that resulted in federal charges against a former assistant engineer for allegedly taking $10,000 in kickbacks from two contracts he steered to a contractor[Read More…]

Notorious Koch Brothers Win 2013 Rubber Dodo Award

TUCSON, Ariz.–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2013.  The Koch Brothers, an ultra-secret and super-rich duo that shamelessly funnels money to the climate-denier movement and campaigns to ram through the Keystone XL pipeline, are the lucky recipients of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2013 Rubber Dodo Award, given annually to those who have done[Read More…]

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