News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Collects More Than $15.3 Billion in Civil and Criminal Cases in Fiscal Year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted City of Chicago Alderman WILLIE B. COCHRAN on charges he pocketed money from a charitable fund that was intended to help families and children in his South Side ward.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Larry Jay Horsey, 41, of Chesterfield, pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in an investment fraud scheme that caused a loss of $1.9 million to nine investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to increase releases below Nimbus Dam Dec. 15 at 9 a.m. from 15,000 cubic feet per second to reach 35,000 cfs by 1 p.m. Should inflows continue at current levels or increase, additional releases may be required.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake today announced that a Charleston Grand Jury has returned a two-count indictment charging St. Paul’s Fire District Chief Doc McNeil Matthews, age 47, of Hollywood; Assistant Chief Charles Riddle, age 44, of Goose Creek; and Mary Jo...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Please join Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta for an important general aviation announcement. He will be joined by Simon Caldecott, President and CEO of Piper Aircraft and chairman of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), Brad Mottier, Vice President and General Manager of Business and General Aviation & Integrated Systems for GE Aviation, and Joe Brown, President, Hartzell Propeller.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County man pleaded guilty today for his role in a kickback scheme, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Chadwick Lusk, 35, of Davin, entered his guilty plea to honest services mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio today, a federal grand jury indicted a 20-year-old Guatemalan national for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent last month announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: An additional $8.5 Million Collected in Asset Forfeiture to aid Crime Victims and support Law Enforcement Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Darren Bottinelli, 45, to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Bottinelli was also ordered to pay $3,093,918 in restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Washington D.C. man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with transporting a teenage boy from Maryland to Boston and other states to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jabril Greggs, age 26, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to serve 33 months in prison for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Thi Houng Le a/k/a Kristy Le, age 34, of Pascagoula, and Gregory P. Warren, age 52 of Lafayette, Louisiana, were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola for conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft, mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with a lawsuit against BP, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Colleyville, Texas, businessman, James VanBlaricum, who operated an oil and gas exploration company, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Fort Worth, Texas, on one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
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: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MAURICE SHARPE, 44, of Waterbury, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of health care fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: On December 8, 2016, representatives of the Friends of the Siege and Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, completed the donation of 11 tracts of land totaling over 350 acres to Shiloh National Military Park.
