News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: $20,000 Reward Offered in Hipster Bandit Bank Robbery Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Culver City, California, man was arrested yesterday on federal charges of economic espionage and violations of the Arms Export Control Act for his attempts to sell sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: FBI Little Rock Releases Statement Regarding Violence Against Law Enforcement in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - A Fort Wainwright Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to receive bribes and defraud the United States in connection with a scheme to steal fuel at a forward operating base (FOB) in Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Olympic National Park visitors are reminded to stay at least 50 yards away from mountain goats and other park wildlife at all times.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the State Department’s announcement that the U.S. has expelled two Russian officials following an attack on an American diplomat in Moscow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Derek Leon Mantilla, 21, an 18th Street Gang member formerly of Fairfax, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Mantilla was also sentenced to 20 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 35,000 metric tons of soybean oil for delivery to China during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Kevin R. Foster, 40, of Montclair, N.J. with wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two former executives of Louis Berger International (LBI), a New Jersey-based construction management company, have been sentenced in connection with a long-running bribery scheme to secure government construction management contracts by bribing officials in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to a civil complaint the United States filed in 2014, a Chicago-based tax return preparer prepared returns that falsely claimed that recipients of discrimination awards related to a class-action lawsuit could claim large deductions on their federal tax returns and that falsely...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned a five-count indictment on May 19, 2016 charging a man and woman from Gary, Indiana with stealing over $3 million in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Oxnard-based tax return preparer was convicted yesterday afternoon of conspiracy to file false tax refund claims and for having signed tax returns claiming more than $53 million in fraudulent tax refunds. Before the IRS was able to identify and stop the scheme, it had already paid out more than $23 million of refunds to the defendant and his co-conspirators.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Antietam National Battlefield announces that as of Oct. 1, 2016, the following acreages will be available for use by a Cooperator.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Forty-one individuals linked to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) responsible for smuggling hundreds of individuals through South and Central America into the United States were arrested by foreign partners last week in two separate multinational operations under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ongoing efforts in the region as part of Operation Citadel.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce that the next Evening at the Cape Lookout Lighthouse programs will take place on Thursday, July 21, Friday, July 22, and Saturday, July 23. Bring your own flashlight and experience the island and the lighthouse as the keepers...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the California State Lands Commission today released a Final Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) on the Mendota Pool Bypass and Reach 2B Channel Improvements Project. Located in Madera and Fresno counties and a key component...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: The Hōlua backcountry area of Haleakalā National Park will close from the evening of Thursday, July 14th through late afternoon on July 15th so park biologists can control non-native Argentine ants.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today sent a letter to House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) urging them to reject an effort by Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) to remove language in the pending Interior Department appropriations...
