News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Harpers Ferry, WV - Celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Saturday, August 20th from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Bring a blanket, a picnic and lounge in the shade on the Shenandoah River shoreline for a day of music and memories. Activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that REHER MORRIS, age 28, of Houma, was indicted today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A University of Kansas graduate student was indicted Wednesday on charges of making false claims on an application for a visa that he had served as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Lindsay was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment yesterday after being convicted of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, attempted witness tampering, and obstruction of justice announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Two investment advisors are charged with conspiring to commit securities fraud in connection with a multi-million dollar scheme to sell unit investment trusts.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Indian Health Service (IHS) and to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting additional information on recent findings of grossly inadequate quality of care and services provided at IHS health facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Three area people, including an inmate at the Jennings Correctional Facility, were indicted on multiple fraud counts involving a conspiracy to commit various fraudulent schemes, including check-kiting, which they term as “piggybacking." Check-kiting occurs when an individual takes advantage...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Solvay Specialty Polymers USA LLC
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: The Investigative Services Branch (ISB) was recently presented with the Humane Law Enforcement Award, which recognizes authorities across the nation that take an exemplary stand against animal cruelty. ISB, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the US Attorney's Office were selected for their leadership in combating illegal wildlife taking throughout a three-year investigation that exposed an illegal hunting outfitter ring operating within Noatak National Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Today, federal, state and local authorities arrested seven individuals in the El Paso area based on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges. An eighth defendant was arrested back in June 2016. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, and Socorro Police Chief Carlos Maldonado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Erica Lee Buffolino, age 25, of Hagerstown, Maryland late on Aug. 2, 2016, to 71 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres, 34, from Beckemeyer, Illinois, was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2016, in the U.S. District Court to 45 years in prison for Production of Child Pornography, Distribution of Child Pornography and Receipt of Child Pornography, United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce announced today. Vasquez Torres was also ordered to pay a $300 special assessment. When he is released from prison he will be on federal supervised release for an additional 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Former Cleveland Browns star Reggie Rucker was sentenced to nearly two years in prison today for stealing more than $110,000 in charitable donations to anti-violence groups he led and using the money to pay his gambling debts and personal expenses, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: In December 2015, President Barack Obama proclaimed January 2016 as “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month," and called to rededicate ourselves to assisting victims of human trafficking and to combating it in all its forms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Arrested for Attempting to Support ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Virginia, was arrested today on charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Young is employed by the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) as a law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Today, the President made grants of commutation of sentences to the following 214 individuals: · Timothy Adams – Hartsville, SC Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine base (crack); Middle District of North Carolina Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Aug. 2, 1995) Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates released the following statement following President Obama’s commutation of 214 sentences today: "Today's historic announcement is yet another step in the administration's efforts to restore proportionality to unnecessarily long drug sentences. In just the first ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: A Guilford County, North Carolina, resident pleaded guilty today to four counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle ...
