News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Irwin Charles Ager (84, Lake Mary) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Ager has agreed to pay more than $10.3 million in restitution to his victims. His sentencing hearing has been set for Feb. 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Scheme was based in Johnson City, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Culpeper County, Virginia, alleging that the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied a sewage permit application to the Islamic Center of Culpeper (ICC), effectively preventing the ICC from building a small mosque on land that it had purchased in the county. The land is located in a zoning district where religious land use is permitted by right.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in conspiracies to pass fraudulent prescriptions and to steal thousands of oxycodone pills in a series of pharmacy robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Richard Michael Colbert, 55, of Pensacola Beach, pled guilty last week to 13 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and/or mail fraud affecting a financial institution, one count of false statement to a federally insured financial institution, nine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: USC Graduate Student Charged with Computer Intrusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Richard Michael Colbert, 55, of Pensacola Beach, pled guilty last week to 13 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and/or mail fraud affecting a financial institution, one count of false statement to a federally insured financial institution, nine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Dec. 12, 2016, Billy Evans, 26, pled guilty to an indictment charging him with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm. Both Evans and the victim were inmates at the Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been charged with the federal offenses of First Degree Murder, Second Degree Murder, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to a Child, and Child Abuse by a Superseding Indictment filed Oct. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - An inmate at United States Penitentiary at Lee County, Virginia, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to illegally possessing a prohibited object, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: William Dixon Admits to Embezzling Over $4,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Bulgarian man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh in connection with a sophisticated malware package known as GozNym, designed to steal banking credentials and other confidential personal information from infected computers, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that NAAMAN JOE MCCOY, age 27, of Pocasset, Oklahoma, pled guilty to THEFT IN INDIAN COUNTRY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 661 and 1152, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
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By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2016
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to reports that an increasing number of Republicans are beginning to support a bipartisan congressional review of Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Early this morning, the Senate passed H.R. 4680, the “National Park Service Centennial Act" (Chairman Rob Bishop, R-UT), legislation to equip the National Park Service (NPS) with tools to better manage and promote our national parks. The bipartisan bill passed the House earlier this week. House Committee on Natural Chairman Rob Bishop issued the following statement.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, today welcomed Senate passage of his legislation calling for a top-to-bottom evaluation of U.S. drug policy in the Americas. Representative...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Early this morning, the Senate passed S. 612 (Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX), the “" (WIIN), by a vote of 78-21. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after the Senate passed H. Con. Res. 40, co-authored by Royce, seeking the reunification of Korean American families separated during the Korean War...
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding final passage of the Department of State Authorities Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (S.1635)...
