News from August 2016
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Aug. 16, 2016 BOS-2016-131. Employer name: Oprandy's Fire & Safety Equipment Inc. 49 Brookline Ave. Middletown, New York. The company sells installs and services fire extinguishers and suppression equipment. Inspection site: 49 Brookline Ave., Middletown, New York. What prompted OSHA's inspection: ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management invites public comments until Sept. 14, 2016, on the scope of the analysis and issues to consider for the proposed Pilot Goldstrike Inc. Bull Valley Exploration Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: The City of Cleveland and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio are seeking qualified applicants to serve on the Cleveland Community Police Commission (CPC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: AUG 16 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Steven A. Petrillo, 46, of Salem, New Hampshire, was sentenced to two years of probation after a jury found him guilty of making a material false statement to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -New River Gorge National River is hosting a special living history program,"On the Trail to Peace",at Sandstone Visitor Center on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Local living history educators Ronald, Gwendolyn, and Roslyn McAllister will join Dianne Anestis and Doug...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a New Effington, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking in Involuntary Servitude or Forced Labor was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Monday, after a six-day trial, a federal jury found Andre Antonio Walters, 36, of Long Beach, guilty of four counts of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor is launching a new pilot process in its Western region. The "Expedited Case Processing Pilot" allows a complainant covered by certain statutes to ask the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to cease its investigation and issue findings for the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges to consider.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Casaus, who was Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A gruesome employee injury led federal workplace safety inspectors to discover the nation's largest meat and poultry processor endangered workers by exposing them to amputation hazards, high levels of carbon dioxide and peracetic acid without providing personal protective equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man employed as a regional manager for a contractor involved with construction projects at Picatinny Arsenal (PICA) and at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst (Ft. Dix) admitted today his role in a fraud scheme that caused losses of $1.4 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: A Lakewood man was sentenced to a year in custody and ordered to pay nearly $1.8 million restitution and fines for taking improper write-offs and not reporting taxable income, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Guilty plea marks the first case in Central Kentucky in which multiple defendants have been convicted of distributing opiates that caused an overdose death.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 is National Park Service Founders Day and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service! Superintendent David Hallac invites the public to experience their national park sites on the Outer Banks; Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Fidel Naranjo, 27, of Santa Fe, N.M., and Kendra Brophy, 29, of San Pedro, N.M., were sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for convictions arising out of the Dec. 2, 2015 robbery of a bank in Espanola, N.M. Naranjo was sentenced to a 40-month term of incarceration followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 26, 2016, a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Carrie F. Aker and Mario M. Valentine, a Shenandoah, Pennsylvania couple, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud using counterfeit credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Richard W. Mar, 64, of Monterey, California, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine was sentenced to 10 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. Mar was also prohibited by Judge Siragusa from being a member of or associating with the Hell’s Angels for four years after his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announced that Victor Butler, age 59, of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced on Aug. 16, 2016, in Columbus, Georgia, by the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Judge, to serve a total of 204 months (17 years) imprisonment, without parole, for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Hannah Carroll, Rose M. Mulholland, Kim Mulholland, Caroline Sherlock, Catherine Carroll, Anthony Carroll, Johnny M. Sherlock, Mary Rita Sherlock, Jimmy Gorman, Leslie Gorman, Leslie Ann Sherlock, Jimmy J. Carroll...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The first three of six men convicted for their varying roles in an international sex trafficking of minors conspiracy have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
