News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: UPDATE & CHANGE TO CLOSURE. Local National Monuments Closed Due to Tropical Storm. St. Augustine, FL - Due to the changing predictions, storm speed, and direction of Tropical Depression 9, Castillo de San Marcos & Fort Matanzas National Monuments WILL BE OPEN on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. Both parks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Dallas Man Remains in Federal Custody on Related Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking and Racketeering Charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the European Commission’s ruling in the state aid case involving Apple...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRADER YELVERTON, age 24, of Thibodaux, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with unauthorized access of a protected computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette woman was sentenced Monday to 120 months in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Robert A. Gist, who defrauded investors by lying about their investments, has pleaded guilty to a charge of mail fraud. The defendant used investors’ money to pay his personal expenses and to fund operations of a company in which he had a personal interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Joseph Chavez, 40, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to eight months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: The owner and manager of three now-defunct Miami-area home health agencies was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for his role in a $57 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox, sentenced LEANDER DEWEY JONES, 65, of Raleigh, to 360 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Tyrone Anwan Broadnax, 35, a multi-convicted felon who has sold drugs and perpetrated violence in Savannah for many years, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 168 months in prison for trafficking cocaine, crack cocaine, and ethylone, a Schedule I psychedelic controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - As part of an ongoing investigation into the criminal activities of leaders, members, and associates of the criminal organization “La Mara Salvatrucha," or “MS-13," a federal grand jury has handed down a fourth superseding indictment adding allegations that six members of MS-13 murdered a 16-year-old in July 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a former administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration for engaging in a sex act with, and other activities related to a Social Security beneficiary, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, SSA-Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Margaret Jackson and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: William Joseph Boyle, 53, of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to five counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, and one count of investment adviser fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted John Vercusky, age 38, a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary Schuylkill (“USP Schuylkill"), Minersville, Pennsylvania, charging him with possession of a prohibited object. Specifically, marijuana, at the facility on Oct. 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Received Over $16 Million from USDA for Food Stamps Allegedly Traded for Cash; 26 Search Warrants Executed; 46 Bank Accounts Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Timothy P. Gallagher, 47, of Jay, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to a year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for federal program fraud. He was also ordered to pay $79,639 in restitution. He pled guilty on April 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing methamphetamine and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: A Mexican man who had previously been deported five times was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned nine separate indictments charging a total of 14 retail store operators for committing food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with schemes to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. The indictments allege the retailers...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument for Labor Day Weekend.
