News from March 2013
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Four co-defendants also admit to their roles in a scheme to bilk BrickStreet Insurance out of millions of dollars.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the Postal Service will accelerate the consolidation of 53 mail processing facilities...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park road crews will begin their annual spring plowing of the Teton Park Road from Taggart Lake parking area to Signal Mountain Lodge on Monday, April 1, 2013. As plowing operations get underway, recreation on this winter trail will cease for the season. Visitors may continue to use other winter trails, or areas adjacent to the Teton Park Road, for skate-skiing, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing until conditions are no longer favorable.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Members of CDC Investments Scam Receive Prison Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Moises Tronilo, 27, of Providence, was ordered detained today on federal heroin trafficking and firearm charges, announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Eugenio A. Marquez, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Boston Field Office. Tronilo was arrested on Tuesday by ATF agents following an undercover investigation into Tronilo’s alleged drug trafficking activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: The LIRR Disability Fraud Scheme. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RICHARD EHRLINGER a former Long Island Railroad conductor, pled guilty today to charges related to the allegedly massive fraud scheme in which Long Island Rail Road...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Timothy Scott Murphy, 24, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Floyd A. Evans, 37, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Forsyth County, N.C., and Sheriff William T. Schatzman of Forsyth County to resolve allegations that they violated the employment rights of North Carolina Army National Guard soldier Michael Russell under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park hosts "Arrange for Change" Traveling Exhibit.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners are providing guidance to growers in Montana and the Dakotas on how they can use some tried-and-true agricultural practices to reduce their climate change footprint.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Honeywell Resins and Chemicals LLC has agreed to pay a $3 million civil penalty for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its Hopewell, Va., plant, and improve the facility’s air pollution control equipment and processes, the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) today highlighted a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed late yesterday charges a former employee of the United States Postal Service (“USPS") with embezzling approximately $10,365.57 from the Brooklyn Park Post Office. The indictment, which was filed on March 12, 2013, charges Kathleen M. Warner, age 52, of Otsego, with one count of misappropriation of postal funds. The indictment was unsealed following Warner’s initial appearance in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Earlier today, FBI agents arrested Gershon Barkany based on a criminal complaint alleging that the Far Rockaway man defrauded investors by promising to use their money in “risk-free" deals to purchase, and then immediately re-sell at a profit, large real estate properties located in New York City and New Jersey. In fact, the complaint alleges that no such deals existed and the defendant defrauded victims of over $50 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Obtained 20 Fraudulent Loans by Forging Signatures of Bank Officials and Concealed the Loans by Manipulating Bank Records.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse, First Degree Burglary, Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Late yesterday afternoon, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict against Keith Michael Courtney, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., on wire fraud charges after a three day trial, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. and Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno, of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced today that a federal jury in Buffalo has convicted the Tonawanda Coke Corporation of 11 counts of violating the Clean Air Act and three counts of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
