News from April 2016
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: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Bonita Kitson, 44, of Boscawen, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to Social Security Fraud, Making False Statements, and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that 11 individuals were charged in two complaints with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and crack cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and an $8,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EZOLA ISAAC, age 70, of Ball, Louisiana, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Statement by the United States Attorney’s Office Following the Sentencing of Former U.S. Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a felony Criminal Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Scranton on April 26, 2016, charging federal prison inmate Davon Perry, age 36.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that late Tuesday morning, a federal jury in East St. Louis found Joseph E. Suggs, 41, of Belleville, Illinois, guilty of two counts of production of child pornography and one count of attempted production of child pornography.
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Gary Thornhill was charged with wire fraud and mail fraud in connection with an alleged attempt to steal more than a million dollars from a client’s trust account, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Bertram Fairries.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held an oversight hearing to examine the limited growth of hydropower and barriers to expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, a federal Grand Jury has indicted five individuals including 50-year-old former El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) Associate Superintendent Damon Murphy, in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) by artificially inflating state and federal student accountability...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto announced today that Jose Jorge Abbud Gordinho, M.D., of Beckley, was sentenced to eight years in prison, a $15,000 fine, and ordered to pay over $48,000 in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid for a federal drug crime and health care fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), requesting an update on efforts to complete and issue revisions to Circular A-130, which establishes OMB’s official policy and guidance on information technology management and cybersecurity for federal agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that yesterday in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced DENNIS TAYLOR, 55, of Wilson to 154 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Collections Preservation Center in Townsend, Tennessee, on Friday, May 6, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The ceremony will be followed by a public open house of the new facility from 10:30 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: New Haven - As part of an ongoing effort to make our criminal justice system fairer, more efficient and more effective at reducing recidivism and helping formerly incarcerated individuals contribute to their communities, the Department of Justice has designated the week of April 24-30, 2016, as National Reentry Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Kim Wheeler, 46, of Allenstown, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to two counts of Social Security Fraud and two counts of Theft of Public Money, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
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 14 Central Pennsylvania men charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine. Thirteen of the 14 defendants were taken into custody today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The magazine’s May 2016 issue, YELLOWSTONE: America’s Wild Idea, takes an in-depth look at the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem which encompasses Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, national forests, wildlife refuges, and private lands, which total over 22.6 million acres, the largest collection of contiguous wild lands in the lower 48 states.
