News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Owner of Detroit Home Health Care Agency Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for His Role in $3.4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Ben Fischer, aged 11, is the Pennsylvania State Geography Bee Champion as of Friday, April 1, 2016. Ben is a volunteer at Gettysburg National Military Park, as are his parents, Lori and Eric Fischer, of Gettysburg.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Two federal agencies today issued a final rule that will revise the listing for green sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act, including reclassifying turtles originating from two breeding populations from endangered to threatened status due to successful conservation efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Thirteen individuals have been charged with federal drug trafficking and firearms charges following an investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives. Three face state first-degree murder charges following a State Police and Barnstable Police investigation led by District Attorney Michael O’Keefe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ricky Lee Richardson Jr., 39, of Stockton, was arrested on Monday, April 4, 2016, charged with sex trafficking of a minor and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an inmate in the Christian County Jail in Ozark, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to file fraudulent federal income tax returns while he was incarcerated and awaiting sentencing on another federal conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Wednesday, April 13, 2016, to examine the following bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Wednesday, April 13, 2016, to examine the following bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two former high-ranking executives of a Boston-based financial services company, which is one of the world’s largest asset managers and custody banks, have been charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients through secret commissions applied to billions of dollars of securities trades.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Malden man pleaded guilty today to a federal heroin crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. James Christian Young, 41, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
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, announced that JOSEPH McANDREW, 74, of Pawcatuck, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud stemming from his misuse of client funds.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, sent a letter to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), pushing back against a rule proposed by the agency that targets Alaska refuges. In the letter, Murkowski casts doubt on the Service’s claims that the proposed rule won’t affect subsistence ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Wednesday, April 13, 2016, to examine the following bills...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, today sent a letter to Arthur A. Elkins, Jr., the inspector general of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Defendant Extradited from Indonesia. WASHINGTON - Lim Yong Nam, aka Steven Lim, 42, a citizen of Singapore, has been extradited from Indonesia to stand trial in the District of Columbia on charges of taking part in a conspiracy that allegedly caused thousands of radio frequency modules to be illegally...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Richard Gross, Winfield, Missouri, pled guilty to multiple counts involving the trafficking of synthetic drugs. He entered his plea before United States District Judge John A. Ross.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a prior sex offender in Springfield, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography. Gary Thomas Sheldon, 52, of Springfield...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Access Fresh LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in connection with his participation in a fraudulent “boiler room" operation that misled investors and caused over $4 million in losses.
