News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with robbing three financial institutions: the East Cambridge Saving Bank and Naveo Credit Union in Cambridge and Rockland Trust in Allston.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Francisco Martínez-Mercado was sentenced to 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to deprive a person of civil rights, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Defendant was found guilty to the charge on Feb. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANISHA GALLIN, age 27, of Riverdale, Georgia, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Gregory Forest, 55, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 188 months in prison and three years of supervised release for charges stemming from a bank robbery at First Bank, located at 300 River Park Drive, East St. Louis...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Grand Prairie, Texas, man who unlawfully sold firearms on the Internet, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 63 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Robert A. Scappa, D.O. has agreed to pay $250,000 to the government to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by causing claims to be submitted to federal health care programs for laboratory tests that were not medically necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Overland Park, Kan., accountant was sentenced in federal court today for an embezzlement scheme in which he stole more than $4 million from his firm’s clients and purchased dozens of luxury vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: The leader of a multi-state conspiracy that distributed heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine while he was an inmate inside an Ohio prison was sentenced to more than six years in prison, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Grand Prairie, Texas, man who unlawfully sold firearms on the Internet, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 63 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: This year’s awards include $3.9 million for 17 new grants to 12 states and one federally recognized tribe. The remaining funds will support seven continuing state projects and one continuing tribal project. Visit our website for highlights of this year’s new state and tribal projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAMELA MALLORY, 43, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $840,000 from her employer, 360 Federal Credit Union.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 381,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Marlon A. Straw, 45, of Hyde Park, Mass., a Jamaican national, was sentenced on Tuesday to 46 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegal re-entry into the United States, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Slavic Khudoy, 37, of Loomis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 10 months in prison for a fraudulent tax refund scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an employee of the Luzerne County Correctional Facility has been charged in a Criminal Information with violations of federal law.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Annual reports analyzing the wind energy industry released today by the Energy Department show continued rapid growth in wind power installations in 2015, demonstrating market resilience and underscoring the vitality of the U.S. wind energy market on a global scale. Wind power provides clean energy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard A. Zucker, announced today the indictment and arrest of Steven Bernhard, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Modernizing Social Security’s Information Technology Infrastructure" on Thursday, July 14, at 10:00 AM in room B-318 of the Rayburn House...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Due to extreme conditions, all fires at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area are prohibited effective Aug. 19, 2016 until further notice. No open flames are permitted. This includes, but is not limited to; all fires in NPS provided fire rings and boxes, charcoal fires, tiki torches, incense burners, candles, and propane campfires. Exceptions include self-contained propane or gas stoves or lanterns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Davis, a/k/a Holiday, a/k/a Hollywood, 34, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 210 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
