News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a jury in Anchorage found Arnold Wesley Flowers, II, and his wife, Miranda May Flowers, guilty of 12 counts of wire fraud as part of their scheme to defraud State Farm Insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Chrisman, an Ohio bookbinder, has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from his Atlanta business partner in a bookbinding project. The defendant sent false invoices claiming that he completed more than 70 sets of replica Gutenberg Bibles, but he failed to complete all but a handful of sets and instead pocketed the victim’s money to pay for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nitro woman was sentenced today to eight months for failing to report to serve her prison sentence, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kelli Engler, also known as Kelli Reed and Kelli Reed-Engler, 39, previously pleaded guilty to the federal crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GRAEGG L. HOLMES, age 43, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to committing wire fraud related to the 2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine collected $3,730,685.68 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $1,082,526.09 was collected in criminal actions and $2,648,159.59 was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management High Desert District plans to burn slash piles in the Lousy George Juniper project located 10 miles to the south of the Currant Creek Ranch, and approximately.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Three Delray Beach tax return preparers pled guilty to unlawfully enriching themselves by submitting false federal income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on behalf of their clients.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C., Dec. 14, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Housing Service Administrator Tony Hernandez today visited North Carolina to tour a USDA-funded rental complex and highlight two decades of USDA investments and partnerships to build and renovate affordable rural rental housing for families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: In Austin today, Brian David Haney, 37-year-old partial owner of Vidor Pharmacy, pleaded guilty to federal bribery and tax charges in connection with a health care fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Doud & Associates Inc., operating in Santa Maria, Calif., posted a $75,000 surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Kalamazoo, Michigan, Man Convicted of Sex Trafficking and Interstate Transportation for Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: FBI Warns of Phone Scam That Uses Threats, Spoofed FBI Phone Numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: A Warren man was indicted on child pornography charges, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., physician was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Mackenzy Scott, 20, of Providence, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for sex trafficking two young teenagers, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for New England; Warwick Police Chief Colonel Stephen M. McCartney; and Seekonk, Mass., Police Chief Craig A. Mace.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Dec. 13, 2016, Eric Nathan Hans, age 46, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 292 months in prison for Production of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Hans also will be required to serve a ten-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was tackled by a security guard while making his escape was sentenced in federal court today for armed bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Phoenix District Office is seeking public input on recreational target shooting management alternatives for the Sonoran Desert National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and David E. Beach, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service New York Field Office...
