News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Buford investment advisor Blake Bancroft Richards has been sentenced for stealing over $3.2 million from his clients. The defendant used client funds to make personal loan payments, take personal trips, and pay other personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: A North Miami check casher was convicted by a federal jury for cashing over $11 million in fraudulent tax refund checks obtained from the filing of stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of 19 people are charged in a six-count indictment, some of whom are alleged members of the Texas “Mexikan" Mafia (TMM) and charged with conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influence Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal grand jury returned a 32-count indictment, unsealed today, charging six company officials of Explo Systems Inc. of defrauding the federal government and committing federal offenses relating to a munitions demilitarization contract with the U.S. Army.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration’s continued commitment to the President’s Climate Action Plan, the Energy Department today announced $29 million in funding under the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) program for projects awarded to teams at Sandia National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On Aug. 30, 2016, Robert Ellsworth Brooks, Jr., age 70, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to five years’ probation and a $5,000 fine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Brooks pled guilty under the Stolen Valor Act to purchasing medals without proper authorization. Brooks was also ordered to forfeit the unauthorized medals and pay a $25 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Ohio EPA and The National Park Service will host a public open house on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, to discuss the results of an environmental assessment regarding the Canal Diversion Dam in the Cuyahoga River, just north of the Station Road bridge trailhead at towpath mile marker 17 in Brecksville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Casey Gibson, 23, of Jerome pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Gibson waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty to an information filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that Edrey Santo Rojas (31, Cape Coral) pleaded guilty to access device (credit card) fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. Santo Rojas faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison for the credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: The former Opa Locka Assistant Public Works Director pled guilty yesterday afternoon to accepting bribes in furtherance of an illegal municipal corruption scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that Physicians Group Services, P.A., doing business as Coastal Spine and Pain (“Coastal"), has agreed to pay $7.4 million to the government to resolve allegations that Coastal violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary drug screening procedures.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Defrauded Victim of Divorce Proceeds Including Granite Bay House.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Louisiana resident, Philip Frazier, donated a fossil bowfin, Cyclurus gurleyi, to Fossil Butte National Monument during the National Park Service's 100th Anniversary celebration. Two years ago, Philip found a covered fish identified as Mioplosus labracoides in a private fossil quarry northwest of Kemmerer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced that yesterday a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted a Pike County woman charging her with drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted the head of a Homewood telemarketing company of pocketing illegal kickbacks in exchange for referring patients to home health care agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Jose Luis Ponce-Pagan, 36, of Puerto Rico, to 126 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release for conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez ordered Ponce-Pagan to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 300 hours of community service.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park will celebrate its new relationship with the Sekigahara Battlefields of Japan on Monday, September 5, with special, free "Samurai Warriors & Civil War Soldiers" programs throughout the day. Gettysburg National Military Park Rangers and staff from the Sekigahara Battlefields...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Several visitor facilities will be closing early to accommodate the work.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Justin Jeffrey Amato, 33, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of violating supervised release, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and four years of additional supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
