News from March 2015

By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy, the Indian Energy Summer Internship Program is now accepting applications for a 12-week internship at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Interns will get first-hand experience with existing tribal renewable energy projects and exposure to issues concerning tribal renewable energy technology use and application.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Ryan Trythall was sentenced today to twenty-four months in prison for tax evasion, and ordered to pay restitution of $1,006,035, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Barry J. Von Der Embse, 53 of Kalida, Ohio, alleging three separate counts of making false financial statements in an indictment returned in Dayton. Von Der Embse is charged with making three separate false statements to the Union Bank Company of Columbus Grove, Ohio in the form of personal financial statements in 2004, 2006 and 2007 while employed as a commercial loan officer with the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a 26-count indictment was returned against twenty individuals and one corporation, charging approximately $30,052,295 in Medicare fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Springtime at Capitol Reef is a wonderful time to notice changes. Through the weather is turning warm and dry, an occasional snowfall can occur. You'll notice the trees budding, flowers blooming, and critters coming out of hibernation, like our resident marmots, so please yield to wildlife on the roadways.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Arkansas National Parks Share Centennial Plans at Tourism Conference.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: FORT SCOTT, Kan. - Workers welding inside steel tanks were exposed to toxic fumes because their employer lacked an effective program to protect them, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. Niece Products of Kansas received 15 serious safety...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Samuel Loring Morison, age 70, of Crofton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property, specifically, historical records related to his grandfather, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today examined the growth of increasingly sophisticated tax scams that are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars every tax season. This includes a boom in tax criminals operating overseas to take advantage of Americans through a variety of schemes, such as the recent fake phone call scam which has targeted more than 366,000 Americans since 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve and protect, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Birmingham, Ala.; Ft. Worth, Texas; Gary, Ind.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Roxanne Merrell promised $100,000 to send obscene photos of young girl.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that, after a two-day trial, a federal jury found a Guatemalan guilty of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute more than $1.5 million worth of cocaine and $75,000 worth of methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Officer Assigned To Harlem Precinct Committed Armed Robberies While On Duty And In Uniform In Queens, The Bronx, And Manhattan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Matthew Deynes, 33, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) conspiracy, was sentenced to 125 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on tax schemes and scams...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Several individuals have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a scheme to defraud local banks, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC O’NEAL SELDERS, age 43, from Independence, pled guilty today to a federal gun charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 12, 2015, Angela Jones, 51, of Madison, IL, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging that she engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud. At her sentencing Jones will face up to...