News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Latino Conservation Week at Biscayne National Park will be held July 16 - July 24, 2016. It features free canoe tours, talks, activities and classes at the park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vidal Sandoval, 46, of Cimarron, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a superseding indictment charging him with drug trafficking and theft of government property charges. Sandoval was a Deputy of the Colfax County Sheriff’s Department at the time he committed the crimes. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Springfield, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for his role in a scheme that used bogus records and unqualified home health aides to defraud Medicare out of $7 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A man who owned a tax preparation business located in Dallas, Texas, Kevin Troy Jernigan, appeared in federal court Tuesday and pleaded guilty to one count of aiding or assisting in the preparation or presentation of a false or fraudulent individual income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested a Sureños gang member and an associate charged in connection with methamphetamine trafficking in El Paso announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., 34th Judicial District Attorney Jaime Esparza, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, and El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Defendant illegally obtained over 180 prescription pills from Chapmanville Pharmacy, including oxycodone, Xanax, and morphine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chinese national who admitted to participating in a years-long conspiracy that involved Chinese military officers hacking into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors in order to steal military technical data was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited a Queensbury manufacturer for exposing employees to uncorrected explosion hazards, as well as recurring fire and fall hazards.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed legislation prohibiting the Obama administration from purchasing heavy water from Iran. In April, the administration agreed to pay $8.6 million for 32 metric tons of heavy water. Passing today’s legislation, No 2H2O from Iran Act (H.R. 5119), will ensure U.S. taxpayers aren’t subsidizing Iran’s production of this sensitive material.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Ian Ranberg, 50, of Souderton, PA, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography. On Aug. 21, 2013, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed search warrants on Ranberg’s email account and at his home in Souderton, PA and...
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined the Korean Church Coalition’s annual rally for North Korean freedom. Today’s rally comes just a week after the State Department released, “Report on Serious Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea," which was mandated by Chairman Royce’s North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016. Key excerpts from Chairman Royce’s remarks are below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Preston Alexander McWaters, 25 of Athens, Georgia, pled guilty today before United States District Judge James I. Cohn, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to four counts of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce to injure another person, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gaurav Mehta, age 36, and Isha Mehta, also known as Isha Kamboj, also known as Isha Johnson, age 33, citizens of India, were each sentenced today to 3 years of probation and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, following jury convictions for marriage fraud and immigration fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with possessing several assault-style weapons and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: A Logan man was charged in federal court with stealing more than $308,000 from investors through a fraudulent horseracing venture and using the money to buy expensive clothes, vehicles and pay for gambling expenses, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted John Kays, age 42, of Bel Air, Maryland, and Matthew Barrow, age 42, of Toledo, Ohio, on conspiracy and bribery charges related to contracting at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chinese national who admitted to participating in a years-long conspiracy that involved Chinese military officers hacking into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors in order to steal military technical data was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Springfield, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for his role in a scheme that used bogus records and unqualified home health aides to defraud Medicare out of $7 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Mr. Chairman, we were scheduled to mark up five bills today covering a range of subject matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has been sentenced to federal prison for distributing multiple images and videos of child pornography. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
