News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Two additional stock promoters were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC), issue shares in the companies that they and other conspirators secretly controlled, and sell the shares to the investing public at a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg has indicted Andrew Manganas, and Panthera Painting, Inc., on embezzlement, fraud, false statements, and environmental charges related to a subcontract performed as part of a $42 million rehabilitation project administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDot).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) - the trade association for the firearms industry - have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of firearms from 111 Gun Shop. ATF’s reward of up to $5,000, will be matched by the NSSF for a total reward of up to $10,000.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Washington - Sun Produce Specialties LLC, Phoenix, Ariz., has complied with the terms of a consent decision and order finding that the company violated section 8(b) of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and revoking the company’s PACA license for unlawful employment of Ricardo B. Bombella...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Dr. Todd Braje will discuss recent research into early colonization of the Channel Islands and the Americas during the August From Shore to Sea lecture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A North Hollywood man surrendered to U.S. Marshals this morning after an arrest warrant was issued on federal charges of aiding and abetting the illegal smuggling of protected elephant ivory.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Timothy Vallier, 30, of Plainfield Township, appeared in federal court today on federal criminal charges of possession and attempted production of child pornography. The federal charges follow an investigation led by the Kent County Sheriff’s Department and the Michigan State...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DERRICK GILLIAM, 29, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiring to commit seven armed robberies in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Allegedly Used Sham Trusts in Panama and Liechtenstein to Hide Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Defendants Conspired to Bring Drugs into SW Virginia from China, Florida, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced physician William Crittenden III, age 52, of Kensington, Maryland today to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam, and eight separate counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone. Crittenden was convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 19, 2016, after an 11 day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging KENDALL J. SULLIVAN, 50, of Stamford, with three counts of making threatening communications online.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, former Crystal City Mayor Pro-Tem Rogelio Mata and his brother, former Crystal City Councilman Roel Mata, pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a bribery and kickback scheme involving city contracts announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced the sentencing yesterday of James Smith, a/k/a “Heavy D," to 34 years in prison in connection with the 2011 murder of Danny Ulerio (“Lora") during an attempted drug robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A businessman who defrauded more than 300 investors in a precious metal investment scam was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud and money laundering offenses in a case that caused victims to lose nearly $11 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - Nearly four kilograms of heroin and fentanyl have been seized and 24 people arrested on drug possession and conspiracy charges as a result of an investigation into 10 fatal overdoses in Suffolk and Nassau Counties and nine drug overdoses in which individuals were revived with Narcan, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: More than 14,700 Marijuana Plants Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Michael Johnson, a former resident of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Staci M. Yandle to 360 months in federal prison for one count of conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Jose Castillo (619) 546-6745 and Stephen Wong (619) 546-9464.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy today announced a total of $11 million for 16 projects intended to develop innovative, early-stage solutions in both photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP).
