News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with Matthew Barden, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced today that Joseph Farrell, 39, of Jonesboro, the leader of a multistate drug-trafficking organization, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Home Depot of over $45,000.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service (NPS) today opened the application period for new grants to preserve and highlight the sites and stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20th Century. Congress appropriated $8.0 million for this new grant program in FY 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Former Vice President of Wholesale Tool Company Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Role in $9 Million Bank Fraud Scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-071-16, issued at 9:00 a.m. on Aug. 4, which announced export sales of 129,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year was reported in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has closed portions of the Cache Creek Management Area, including Perkins Creek Ridge Trail, for public safety due to the Clayton Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced late yesterday Lowney Yohnagalegi Crow, 33, of Cherokee, N.C. to 87 months in prison on charges of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing this morning of an indictment charging GREVY GERARD PIERRE-LOUIS, a/k/a...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Photographer Danielle Austen of Hillsborough, New Jersey has been an Artist-in-Residence at Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia, and Everglades National Parks. She was also a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. She has received numerous photography awards including the 2015 International Nature-Landscape Photography Award. Her images have also been exhibited at museums and photography shows throughout the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Camden, New Jersey, woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Belleville, Ill. - Illinois contractor Robert Barringer III's long history of putting his workers in danger of debilitating or fatal falls at his company's job sites continues, this time at a residential home under construction in Glen Carbon.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: A new process patented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses vegetable oils to remove metals from liquids, solids and gases.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: “Like the term ‘free speech,’ the term ‘free trade’ doesn’t refer to its cost, it means the freedom TO trade. In America it’s our freedom to buy, sell and compete anywhere in the world with as little government interference as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Efrain Hildalgo, AKA Cheko, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, was sentenced to 330 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: TRINIDAD, Calif - In cooperation with the Humboldt Amateur Radio Club, the Bureau of Land Management Arcata Field Office will celebrate International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend with a free open house at the historic Trinidad Lighthouse on Trinidad Head, Sunday, Aug. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former vice president of an Ontario-based wholesale tool company was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud East West Bank that resulted in more than $9 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: San Diego Businessman Indicted for Multi-Million-Dollar Real Estate Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Chicago woman who previously pled guilty to her role in a scheme to overbill Illinois’ Medicaid program has been sentenced. On Aug. 15, 2016, U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ordered Tina Kimbrough, 44, of Berwyn, Ill., to serve 30 months in federal prison. Kimbrough and Gregory...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A southern California commodities trader pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago today to pocketing a portion of his clients’ money after falsely promising a 200% return on investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 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., was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to file fraudulent federal income tax returns while he was incarcerated and awaiting sentencing on another federal conviction.
