News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Transit Safety Management, Inc., a Georgetown, Mass. consulting company, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement in connection with its certification for favored contracting status.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that nine defendants in a far-reaching conspiracy to distribute cocaine were sentenced as of Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2016, by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Judge. These individuals and their respective sentences include.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016 (WARN Act), which would expand protections for those who blow the whistle on financial crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Hearing Overview. The hearing on Puerto Rico today featured a sole witness from the U.S. Treasury Department to present the Obama Administration’s assessment of the U.S. territory’s debt crisis, as well as their recommendation for a comprehensive legislative package to assist the island in avoiding what...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: The research effort offsite link by NOAA, University of California, Davis, and partners showed that during the peak of the Aliso Canyon event, enough methane poured into the air every day to fill a balloon the size of the Rose Bowl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Diaz Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Gabriel Emanuel Foxworth, age 27, of Marion, South Carolina, was sentenced to a total of 156 months imprisonment in federal court in Florence, South Carolina. Foxworth’s term of imprisonment will be followed by an appropriate...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominees for the Hass Avocado Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Richard Lee Anderson (37, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to receiving stolen government property. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Anderson also faces drug and firearms charges in a separate federal case (8:15-CR-473-T-35AEP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cornell Harvey, a/k/a “Little Head," age 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the UDH organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore. Harvey also admitted his participation in a murder.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced that it would extend the comment period on a proposed rule on hunting, trapping, and land access in Alaska’s national wildlife refuges by an additional 30 days. The Service’s announcement comes after the entire Alaska congressional delegation sent a letter to the Service calling on the agency to extend the comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Feb. 24, 2016, a Federal grand jury returned a fourteen count indictment against eight individuals for bribery, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: A former bank president was sentenced today for his role in a bank fraud scheme in which he hid underperforming and at-risk loans from the bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and others, announced Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman, III of the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Dr. Jon M. Erlandson, archaeologist and professor at the University of Oregon, will discuss over 13,000 years of archaeological evidence that provide a glimpse into how humans haveadapted to life on the Channel Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: “H.R. 3624, the so-called “Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act of 2016," is not really about fraud. Rather, this measure is just the latest attempt to tilt the civil justice system in favor of corporate defendants by making it more difficult for plaintiffs to pursue state law claims in state courts.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: As America's National Park System gears up to celebrate its Centennial Anniversary,Crater Lake, Oregon's National Park gem, joined with Wuyishan National Scenic Area (a UNESCO World Heritage Site in China) in a Sister Park Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - Arthur D. Wheeler, 30, of the 600 block of Harberts, South Pekin, Ill., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of impersonating a federal officer. Wheeler entered his plea before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 25, 2016 - Laquanda Boyce,33, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for her role in attempting to bribe the victim of a shooting, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Boyce pleaded guilty on September ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Former President and CEO of Georgia-Based Bank Sentenced to 84 Months in Prison for Role in Bank Fraud Conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Kerry Wood Selected as New Chief of Interpretation, Education and Operations of William Howard Taft NHS.
