News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Seymour Ellis, 43, most recently of Queens, N.Y., who was convicted after plea of Assault of a Federal Officer, was sentenced to imprisonment of 68 months by United States District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - A 16-month joint investigation has resulted in a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday afternoon charging 19 gang members and associates with conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and heroin, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: An Indictment1 was unsealed today charging George Barnard, 45, of Newtown Square, with 24 counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and three counts of filing a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 102 Months in Prison for Attempting to Travel to Syria to Join ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Denali National and Preserve staff will begin implementing a “soft opening" plan on Monday, July 18 in the Savage River area of the park.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Wellfleet, MA-Musicians from the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia will perform a concert at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham at 7 PM on Thursday, July 28. The concert is one of Cape Cod National Seashore's hallmark Centennial events this summer, featuring the introduction of a commissioned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL SIWEK, 56, of North Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for receiving approximately $1.5 million in bribes while serving as the executive director of the West Haven Housing Authority, and for failing to pay taxes on the illegal income.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Marcus Howard Householder, 32, of Reed, Kentucky, has been charged in United States District Court in Benton with robbing the Grand Rivers Community Bank in Shawneetown, Illinois, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. A Federal Grand Jury returned an indictment earlier this week charging Householder with committing the June 14th robbery during which $6,349 was taken.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Adam Bordeaux, age 32, of Rosebud, South Dakota, was found guilty of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender and Simple Assault following a two-day jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on July 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SRC CONSTRUCTION, INC., of Meriden, waived its right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two individuals have been convicted for their role in a $2 million romance scam conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kunle Mutiu Amoo, 48, and Lanre Sunday Adeoba, 61, both Nigerian citizens who resided outside the Houston area, each pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Hamilton, Ohio, man was sentenced today to life in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis of the Central District of Illinois and Special Agent in Charge Sean Cox of the FBI’s Springfield, Illinois, Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL SIWEK, 56, of North Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for receiving approximately $1.5 million in bribes while serving as the executive director of the West Haven Housing Authority, and for failing to pay taxes on the illegal income.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte has convicted the leader and co-conspirator of a health care fraud scheme that fraudulently billed Medicaid for more than $10 million in false claims, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Cynthia Teresa...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: FBI Offering $5,000 Reward for Information to Locate Suspect in Soldier’s Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte has convicted the leader and co-conspirator of a health care fraud scheme that fraudulently billed Medicaid for more than $10 million in false claims, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Cynthia Teresa...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: AVENTURA, Fla. - A federal workplace safety inspection of the Macy's department store in Aventura by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found employees at risk due to repeated and serious violations related to blocked exits, improper housekeeping and electric shock hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Timothy Edwards, 36, of New Memphis, Illinois, pled guilty on Monday, July 11, 2016, to a three-count Second Superseding Indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Distribute, and Possess with Intent to Distribute, Cocaine and Marihuana, Making a False Statement to a Federal Law Enforcement Officer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Constructora Santiago II, Corp., Centro Cardiovascular and Hospital Del Maestro have agreed to pay $132,000, collectively, to the United States to resolve allegations that each falsely certified to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC") that it was a small business entity in order to pay reduced nuclear material handling fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: EL PASO - A Barrio (BA) gang member pleaded guilty today for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy, Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) El Paso Field Division; Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Richard L. Durbin Jr. of the Western District of Texas; and Special Agent in Charge Douglas Lindquist of the FBI's El Paso, Texas, Office announced today.
