News from December 2015
By DOT News Wire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: FMCSA Launches Online Unified Registration System that Strengthens Safety and Improves Efficiency. On Dec. 12, 2015, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched a new, simplified online registration process that truck and bus companies, freight forwarders, brokers, intermodal equipment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Illinois Woman Convicted for Kidnapping and Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the inclusion in the 2016 omnibus appropriations measure of $750 million to address the root causes of child migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for three hours, a federal jury of four men and eight women found two Pittsburgh-area men guilty of five counts of drug and firearms related offenses, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Michael Hudson, 53, of Cincinnati, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false federal income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) relative to a scheme to defraud Frisch’s Restaurants, Inc. (“Frisch’s") by embezzling funds in excess of his authorized pay and compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Richard Schultz, 34, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by information with possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, on or about July 2, 2015, Schultz possessed laptop computers, an Iphone, and a computer hard drive which contained more than 600 images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Greg Ramsey, age 54, of Baltimore, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, use of a fire to commit a federal felony, malicious destruction of property by fire, attempted witness tampering, and related gun charges. Ramsey and his niece, Tyesha Towanda Roberts, age 37, also of Baltimore, are charged with attempting to obstruct a federal investigation. The indictment was returned late on Dec. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant David Scott was caught with a weapon in a vehicle during a routine traffic stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Russell Gordon, 32, of Ansonia, Connecticut, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, often referred to as crack cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Gordon also was ordered to forfeit $10,706.50. He pleaded guilty to the charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: DNR NEWS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO - Thirty-two hospitals located throughout 15 states have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $28 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for minimally-invasive kyphoplasty procedures, the Justice Department announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Doors open at 7 a.m. with the auction beginning at 8 a.m.The BLM Wyoming State...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: In one Case, Registered Sex Offender ‘Tweeted’ Images of Child Rape.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the filing of a complaint in U.S. District Court in Madison, charging Andrew Pullum, 31, Verona, Wis., with stealing $3,950 in U.S. currency, which was the property of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: DNA and Other Evidence Linked Defendant to Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Russell Gordon, 32, of Ansonia, Connecticut, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, often referred ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: National Park Service road crews have finished repairing West Side Road and opened it in time for an anticipated surge in visitation to Death Valley National Park over the holidays.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that TED HAKEY, JR., 48, of Meriden, has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with intentionally damaging religious property, the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Senate passed major provisions of the bipartisan Preventing and Reducing Improper Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures (PRIME) Act (S. 861) to improve program integrity within Medicare and Medicaid. The PRIME Act, which has 17 bipartisan cosponsors, was introduced by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Leon F. Tejada, 50, of Providence, operator of El Centro Multiservicios, LLC, a tax preparation service in Providence, pleaded guilty today to federal tax fraud and wire fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation.
