News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Atlanta Police Sergeant Charged with Using Excessive Force.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Rep. Sander Levin’s (D-MI) decision not to seek re-election as Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee in the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Michael Younge pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in an illegal scheme to purchase firearms. Younge pleaded guilty to one count of the federal crime of Aiding and Abetting the Making of a False Statement in Connection with the Attempted Acquisition of a Firearm. Younge, 26 years old, lived in Framingham and Boston, Massachusetts, prior to his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: FBI New York Hosts Italian Carabinieri in Formal Ceremony to Return Roman Statue Stolen 33 Years Ago.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Rangers and staff at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be presenting short films from a number of National Park Service (NPS) sites on December 10 and December 17. This two-day film festival over a couple of consecutive Saturdays will be the final NPS event of the Centennial celebration for 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - Wildlife need winter habitat to survive eastern Idaho’s harsh winter climate. To support wildlife survival rates, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Upper Snake Field Office closed the Stinking Springs area near the popular South Fork of the Snake River to all motorized vehicles and human entry beginning Dec. 1, 2016. The closure remains in effect through sunrise May 1, 2017, depending on weather conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: South Miami Hospital, a not-for-profit regional hospital located in South Miami, Florida has agreed to pay the United States approximately $12 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary electrophysiology studies and other procedures allegedly performed by John R. Dylewski, M.D., at South Miami Hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that, DUSTIN KYLE HARVEY, age 27, of Grant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: TULE SPRINGS ADVISORY COUNCIL TO HOLD MEETING DEC 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a James King, age 48, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo in Wilkes-Barre.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Eloff Jr., 41, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law, was sentenced to three months in prison and one year supervised release to include three months home detention by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Joseph Downing Barnes Jr., 26, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for distribution of child pornography, as well as 25 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JEFFREY WILSON, age 31, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two counts of distributing cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base or "crack.".
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, as amended, H.R. 5790, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2016 (404-0). The bill clarifies Congress’s intent to protect FBI whistleblowers who make disclosures to managers and supervisors in their chain of command, bringing the agency in line with most others in the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced to 24 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving the trafficking in, use, and possession of unauthorized debit card account numbers.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced the release of the 2016 version of the Ways and Means Green Book, which is officially titled “Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means." This document,...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to illegally obtain and distribute oxycodone in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The world’s largest dietary supplement retailer, GNC Holdings Inc. (GNC), has entered into a wide-ranging agreement with the Department of Justice to reform its practices related to potentially unlawful dietary ingredients and dietary supplements, and has further promised to embark on a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Eight individuals arrested on Nov. 26, 2016, for their part in a robbery at Plaza Frontenac were indicted today for interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that yesterday, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Jason J. Parmeley, 42, formally of O’Fallon, MO, pled guilty to numerous federal crimes arising from his leadership of a large stolen property ring that operated in the Metro East and other locations.
