News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation has selected Roland Springer to serve as the new area manager for the Snake River Area Office in Boise, Idaho. He replaces Jerry Gregg, who plans to retire at the end of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: A Miami Gardens resident pled guilty to a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: A Certified Public Account (CPA) pled guilty today to using her tax preparation business to facilitate an income tax refund fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Nearly one hundred years ago, on Oct. 4, 1915, a group of Idaho citizens and the U.S. Reclamation Service celebrated the construction of Arrowrock Dam near Boise. At the time, Arrowrock Dam was the tallest dam in the world and generated national interest as an engineering marvel. Numerous design innovations from Arrowrock Dam were later incorporated into Owyhee and Hoover dams.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that private investigator Robert Williamson was sentenced to 78 months in prison on charges related to his role in a pay-for-plea scheme that garnered favorable treatment for defendants charged with OWI and various state crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alex Jariv, 28, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today in federal court to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in illegal schemes to generate and sell fraudulent biodiesel credits, marking the culmination of nearly four years of investigations and prosecutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts Department of Probation officer was charged today with making a false statement to the FBI in connection with a public corruption investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Armstrong County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: In El Paso, two brothers and a sister are in custody based on a federal grand jury indictment alleging a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIAN KOBRYN, 63, of Farmington, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to one day of imprisonment, time already served, and one year of supervised release, for filing false tax returns. KOBRYN also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and more than $425,000 in back taxes, interest, and penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorists.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
Release: How likely is it that the government will shut down?
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Calvin James Monceaux, 38, of Daphne, was sentenced today in federal court. Monceaux pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in May of 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Red Rock/Sloan Field Office is seeking public input regarding proposed developments in Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. The public meeting will be held on October 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Levi Strauss & Co. located at 501 Executive Airport Drive, Henderson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Rex Dale Rains II, 54, of Maryland Heights, Missouri, was sentenced on two counts of Wildlife Trafficking and two counts of False Labelling under the Lacey Act. For each of these misdemeanors...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that nine individuals have been charged by indictment with participating in a drug trafficking ring that obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills by way of fraudulent prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-Bradley William Monical, 45, of The Dalles, Oregon, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Michael McShane to 32 years in prison for committing seven bank robberies in Southern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Idaho, all in 2010. Judge McShane ordered the sentence to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An ongoing federal and state law enforcement investigation into alleged mortgage fraud in Rhode Island has resulted to date in a former mortgage originator pleading guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and an unlicensed real estate appraiser being charged with allegedly stealing the identity of other appraisers when performing and submitting real estate appraisals to banks as documentation for mortgage loan applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Case is One of Many Prosecuted by United States Attorney Steve Wigginton’s Anti- Armed Robbery (Hobbs Act) Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today that, as part of more than $44 million in grant funding to combat human trafficking, the Justice Department awarded $1.5 million to the Eastern District of Louisiana to support law enforcement efforts and victim services for the next three years.
