News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a 25-count indictment charging Robert Wilkins, 25, and Christian M. Domenech, 23, of West Warwick, with trafficking heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, and with bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division; and Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JULIO RAYMUNDO-SANTOS, age 41, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment that charged him with illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOL Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, Ill. - For the second time in two years, federal safety inspectors found workers risking amputations and other serious injuries as they fed parts by hand into an unguarded mechanical press brake at an Illinois trailer manufacturing plant. They also found the company failed to protect welders and other employees from harmful ray emissions during welding operations.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management announced the release of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse Range-wide Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a 90-day public comment period, which will start on Friday Aug. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 35-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) member Jerry Idrogo (aka “Spooks") pleaded guilty to a federal charge claiming responsibility for two murders including the murder of Balcones Heights Police Officer Julian Pesina in May 2014 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Another Camden man was sentenced this week to over 12 years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed hundreds of grams of cocaine base, cocaine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Richard Gross, Winfield, MO, was sentenced today to 150 months in prison on multiple counts involving the trafficking of synthetic drugs. Additionally, as part of these convictions, the defendants have agreed to the forfeiture of assets and property totaling in excess of $6.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Michelle Lynn Chambers, 35, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on August 8, 2016, for failure to disclose income. Chambers, as a representative payee for a Supplemental Security Income Benefits recipient, knowingly concealed and failed to disclose her...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an order late yesterday significantly expanding the opportunities for eligible Texas voters without specific forms of photo identification to cast valid ballots in upcoming elections. According to the order, eligible voters who face a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Mexico State University and its Board of Regents (NMSU) discriminated against a female former assistant track coach on the basis of sex by paying her less than similarly-situated men in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: 22 Defendants Charged in Ongoing Investigation Two Georgia real estate investors pleaded guilty today for their roles in bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies committed at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Georgia, the Department of Justice announced. Ellis Galyon and Christopher Anderson each ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a complaint against the state of Mississippi, alleging that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) by failing to provide adults with mental illness with necessary integrated, community-based mental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, of Starkville, Mississippi, was sentenced today to serve 144 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment on July 28, which was unsealed today, charging two Florida income tax return preparers with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and nine counts each of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: A Delaware man was indicted today on charges related to his plan to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex and additional charges related to the production and distribution of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Emanuel L. Lutchman, 26, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The owner of a New Orleans company that defrauded Medicare of more than $3.3 million was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for directing the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: A Texas man was charged with fraud and obstruction of justice in an indictment unsealed today involving two investment companies that allegedly defrauded investors resulting in losses of approximately $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Second Defendant to Plead Guilty in Ongoing Investigation An e-commerce retailer pleaded guilty today for conspiring to fix the prices of posters sold online, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement actions listed below: First Bankshares, Inc., Barboursville, West Virginia Written Agreement dated August 8, 2016 Liberty Bank, South San Francisco, California Written Agreement dated August 5, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
