News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - Fifteen individuals are in custody today charged federally with participating in a methamphetamine distribution and money laundering scheme announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Feb. 24, 2016 BOS 2016-028. Employer name: Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. dba Alpine Lake RV Resort. Inspection site: 78 Heath Road, Corinth, New York. Investigation findings: Employees were exposed to electrical hazards throughout the campground when they were required to work on outdoor electrical...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael VonFricken, age 44, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to obtaining false receipts for orthodontic services and submitting them to his union’s health care plan, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) delivered the keynote address at the annual Bloomberg BNA tax policy event, The Politics of Tax: Making Sense of Uncertainty Tax Outlook 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCIS MANIGAULT, 42, of New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing five armed robberies during one week last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: JOLIET - A multi-jurisdictional law enforcement operation resulted in the arrests on Wednesday of roughly 19 Joliet area gang members on both federal and state charges including narcotics and weapons offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.‐U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Thamud Eldridge, 42, aka Damu, Galen Rose, 42, and Kevin Allen, 35, aka Killer Kev, all of Buffalo, NY were convicted of multiple RICO, drug and gun charges following a seven week jury trial before U.S.District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Michael Williams, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Tomorrow, Feb. 25, 2016, at 12:30 pm, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) will hold a press conference to introduce the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016 (WARN Act) to expand protections for those who put their careers at risk to blow the whistle on financial crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio - The life of a 53-year-old roofer who died after dropping 40 feet to the ground could have been saved if his employer had provided proper fall protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on the decision by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to block the nomination of Mary Wakefield as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the goal of advancing the GOP’s discredited efforts to undermine Planned Parenthood.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation will host the 49th annual Colorado High School Bridge Building Contest at its laboratory in Building 56 at the Denver Federal Center on Saturday, February 27. Students from around Colorado will bring their model bridges to compete for scholarships and other prizes. Reclamation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute 2.8 kilograms of crack-cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today celebrated President Obama’s signature of a major package of new tools to crack down on foreign trade cheats and stand up for American workers and businesses. Wyden, who authored the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, called the bill’s enactment a significant step toward trade done right.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Lebanon Junior High School teacher has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Evert Henry, 41, of Lebanon...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Bipartisan Bill Caps Ambitious Finance Committee Trade Agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging TIMOTHY W. BURKE, also known as “Bill Burke," “William Burke," “Kerry Saunders," “Pat Riley," “Jim Caldwell," “Jim Saunders," “Tom Morrisey,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jason A. Razo, 38, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Norbert E. Vint, Deputy Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Larry Flynn, a/k/a L.W., age 40, of Richland County, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for operation of an illegal gambling business, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1955; tax evasion, a...
