News from December 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: San Francisco Man Arrested for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN COLL, a former New York City Correction Officer, was convicted of causing the death of Ronald Spear, a pre-trial detainee at Rikers Island. COLL, then a correction officer on Rikers Island, had...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An East Boston woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining over $50,000 in Social Security benefits.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN COLL, a former New York City Correction Officer, was convicted of causing the death of Ronald Spear, a pre-trial detainee at Rikers Island. COLL, then a correction officer on Rikers Island, had...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - ThunderCat Technology, LLC, located in Reston, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle civil False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Act, and Procurement Integrity Act claims relating to bid rigging and kickback schemes in connection with six government procurements.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and Tuzigoot National Monuments will be closed on December 25th, 2016. The sites will reopen the following day. Regular operational hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at all three locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACY NICHELSON, age 43, a resident of Metairie, was sentenced today for defrauding a local business.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond C. Hopson, Lindsay R. Carrier, Jr., and Stephanie A. Costanzo, a Niagara Falls Police Officer, who has since resigned, were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. announced today that the Middle District of Alabama collected $2,639,626.76 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $2,317,486.29 was collected in criminal actions and $322,140.47 was collected in civil actions.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Karl Christian Loibenbock, a/k/a “Karl Christian Loibenboeck," a/k/a “Christian Bock," of Windhoek, Namibia, was charged today by Indictment[1] with one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Employer name: U.S. Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Daniel Acosta-Domiguez, a.k.a. “Daniel Acosta," a.k.a. “Jonathan Amador-Alvarez," 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment1 with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 18, 2016, Jorge-Jimenez, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about May 21, 2013.

By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the Syrian opposition’s evacuation of Aleppo...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Epps, 48, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of wire fraud, mail fraud, arson, possession of Molotov Cocktails, maintaining a premises for drug trafficking, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 60 years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: FBI Cincinnati Presents Director’s Community Leadership Award to Steven Tinapple.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Victim's Debit Cards Soon After Burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Expedited for prosecution by the ATF, Venegas had only been out of jail 47 days prior to chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Michael Mathison, 26, of Selma, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Brandon Horine's first day at work removing shingles from a residential roof in Nampa was also his last. Without required fall protection equipment in place, the 42-year-old worker fell to the ground on Sept. 12, 2016 - suffering severe brain trauma that ended his life several days later.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and Tuzigoot National Monuments will be closed on December 25th, 2016. The sites will reopen the following day. Regular operational hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at all three locations.