News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Curtis Lynn DeYoung, age 60, of Draper, Utah, who acted as president and Chief Executive Officer of American Pensions Services (APS), with obstruction of justice, false declaration before a court of the United States, and making a false statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after a circuit court struck down the FCC’s municipal broadband order.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Contact: Aly Baltrus. Springdale, UT- A major rock fall has closed the Zion- Mount Carmel Highway, State Route 9, in Zion National Park. Effective immediately, the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, between Canyon Junction and the East Entrance is closed. A significant rock fall occurred on the switchback near...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Raymond P. Baker, 37, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in December 2015 of participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew yesterday sentenced Merlando Corlis (48, Tampa) to three years of probation for unlawful discharge of a pollutant. The Court also ordered him to pay a fine of $25,000 and to make a community service payment of $25,000 to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: CEO’s company, DCM Erectors, also found guilty of fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nannette Brown, 47, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering, was sentenced to two years probation and a $500.00 fine by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after a circuit court struck down the FCC’s municipal broadband order.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Edward Werner, 51, of Middleburgh, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve one hundred and twenty-one (121) months in federal prison in connection with his conviction for receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today entered into an agreement with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD) to resolve a compliance review of its School Resource Officer (SRO) program. The agreement was reached in order for RCSD to promptly enact changes to ensure full compliance with federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination against students based on race, color, national origin and disability.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger yesterday announced the sentencing of LOUIS LEE FRASIER BANKS, 26, a leader of a known Minneapolis gang, the Taliban/Young N’ Thuggin (YNT) gang. On March 4, 2015, BANKS was charged in a seven-defendant indictment with conspiracy to distribute cocaine base (crack)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ronald Alan Cook, a 45-year-old resident of Manchester, has been sentenced to 71 months in prison for robbing the Bank of New Hampshire at 705 Hooksett Road in Manchester on Nov. 10, 2015, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Grabbed Victims' Purses, Injuring One of Them.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced ANTHONY TYRONE MOODY, 45, of Seaboard, North Carolina, to 84 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. MOODY previously pled guilty to this charge on Aug. 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: A former general manager at an orphanage in Malawi was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Richard L. Durbin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Hartz Mountain Industries Inc. (Hartz) to resolve the department’s investigation into whether the company discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizen job seekers, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Hartz is a real estate development and management company based in Secaucus, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Company Pleads Guilty to Fixing Price of Auto Parts for Second Time Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a criminal fine of at least $55.48 million for its role in a conspiracy to allocate markets, fix prices and rig bids for shock absorbers installed in automobiles sold to U.S. consumers, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: More Than 1,500 Victims Defrauded Out of $9 Million The Department of Justice announced that an Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, for his role as the owner and operator of a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The former chief executive at Bennett Environmental Inc., a Canada-based company that treats and disposes of contaminated soil, was sentenced today to serve 63 months in prison in connection with the payment of kickbacks to obtain subcontracts at a New Jersey Superfund site overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Justice announced today.
