News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Shenandoah resident connected to a large-scale heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County during 2012 through September 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury today returned verdicts of guilty against Brian Hartline, 51, of Collegeville, PA, and Barry Bekkedam, 48, of Hobe Sound, FL, in a fraud conspiracy involving NOVA Bank. Hartline had served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the bank and Bekkedam had served as Board...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in Hartford today found DOMINIQUE MACK, also known as “Lil Sweets," 26, of Hartford, guilty of conspiring to commit witness tampering by murdering one individual and planning to murder a second individual. The trial before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea began on April 11.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: King Salmon, Alaska- A new National Park Service report shows that 106 visitors to Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve in 2015 spent $99,000 in communities near the park. That spending had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $139,042.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced two Orlando men for carjacking and using a firearm while committing that offense. Gregory McDonald (18) was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and Dante Askins (18) was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Both men pleaded guilty in February 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to implement the Merit-Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS) - a system for Medicare physician payments that replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: As parks across the country celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service, many ask, “How will national parks stay relevant in their next 100 years?" Five park units in southern Arizona - Tumacá;cori National Monument, and the Juan Chiricahua de Bautista National Historic Trail - will engage young people to help answer that question.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Irvine man was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally flying a twin-engine Falcon 10 turbojet airplane with passengers onboard without having a valid pilot’s license.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Bering Straits Technical Services LLC (BSTS) and its parent company, Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC), have paid the Southern District of Texas $2 million in damages to resolve numerous alleged violations of the False Claims Act, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The settlement was finalized April 26, 2016, without an admission of liability.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Government Reform: Ending Duplication and Holding Washington Accountable." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - During the last and 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day the New England Division over the course of four hours collected 67,107 pounds of expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs at 596 collection sites throughout New England. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, today announced the arrest of Kelvin Hendrix, 47, a Sergeant with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office for mail fraud. Federal agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Hendrix, a 25-year...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that James Winbrone, 32, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 21 years in prison and six years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute heroin and distributing cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine. He was convicted on Sept. 30, 2015, following a two-day bench trial.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 393,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 350,000 metric ton for delivery during the 2015/2016 marketing year and 43,000 metric tons for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Shane M. Mauger, 41, of Columbus, has agreed to plead guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to deprive persons of civil rights and federal program theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS - Leon Seminole, 58, of Lame Deer, was convicted of assault and strangulation for punching and attempting to strangle a female victim. Seminole was convicted yesterday by a Billings jury following a two-day trial. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that James Winbrone, 32, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 21 years in prison and six years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute heroin and distributing cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine. He was convicted on Sept. 30, 2015, following a two-day bench trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROBERT DURST, age 73, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal Grand Jury in Scranton has indicted Michael Miller and Janis Tolan with conspiracy to make a false statement in connection with the purchase of a firearm at a gun show in December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a resolution to ensure access to bus stops in the City of Waterloo during winter conditions under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA").
