News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The National Sales Director for New England Compounding Center (NECC), a compounding pharmacy located in Framingham, Mass., pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with conspiring to defraud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey branch of the international street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha," or “MS-13," was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in the brutal murder of an associate of MS-13 in May 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland woman was sentenced to six months incarceration for fraudulently receiving more than $35,000 in Social Security benefits, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant submitted false data and information instead of building and testing experimental components.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant and Six Co-Defendants Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Obama banned offshore acreage in the Arctic and the Atlantic using section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Robbery of Bank of the West Branch in Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Los Angeles - A former Malibu businessman has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell unregistered securities which generated $1,663,190 in illegal profits and a related tax fraud charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Members of the bipartisan encryption working group - established in March 2016 by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) - today released a year-end report laying out key observations and next steps.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former supervisor at Amtrak in Essex County, New Jersey, today admitted soliciting and accepting more than $7,000 worth of items for his personal use from a vendor as a reward for spending more than $185,000 with the vendor in his capacity as an Amtrak Building and Bridges Supervisor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Adam Longoria (30, Wimauma) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Longoria pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2016. As part of his plea, he agreed to forfeit any rights to the following items: a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: FBI Warns of Dramatic Increase in Business E-Mail Compromise Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that former Gonzales District Fire Chief KRISTOPHER JOHNSON, age 36, of Gonzales, Louisiana, has been convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography. Earlier today, JOHNSON plead guilty before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to four counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He will be sentenced at a later date to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CARLOS OZZ FRITINGER, 24, of Cushing, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Robin Cauthron to serve 135 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography that he acquired from minors on Facebook, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced today that the District of Colorado collected $50,860.097.41 for U.S. taxpayers. The office made these collections state-wide, both in cases it handled exclusively as well as while working with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Stole Identities of Nursing Home Patients and Others.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND - S. Darin Kinion, Ph.D., was sentenced today to 18 months’ imprisonment for submitting false data and reports to defraud the United States in connection with a quantum computing research program announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, U.S. Department of Energy Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Adam Longoria (30, Wimauma) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Longoria pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2016. As part of his plea, he agreed to forfeit any rights to the following items: a ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: For the months of January and February, Cape Cod National Seashore will exhibit photographs from artist Mark Preu as part of its Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art series. Mark’s collection of images is drawn from his work from three stays in the dune shacks and other day trips...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey branch of the international street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha," or “MS-13," was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in the brutal murder of an associate of MS-13 in May 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
