News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The crisis of opioid abuse and addiction clearly requires our immediate attention.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Reginald Barton, age 30, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to a federal firearm charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - En Pointe Gov. Inc., En Pointe Technologies Inc., En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc., Dominguez East Holdings LLC and Din Global Corp., all of Gardena, California, have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that En Pointe Gov. Inc. was...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after meeting with Administration officials regarding the potential economic impact of the Administration’s proposed section 385 regulations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today expressed disappointment in the results of the bicameral conference meeting on legislation to address the national opioid epidemic. In addition to a lack of funding in the bill, the conference voted down two amendments offered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Grand Jury in Harrisburg has indicted Tomas Gausin-Ceniseros, who is currently confined at the U.S. Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin worth $344 million to develop and implement a new NextGen technology that will improve the efficiency of departures and arrivals, as well as the movement of aircraft on the ground. The new technology will save time for the flying public and lessen the impact on the environment by reducing emissions and noise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDREW CASPERSEN pled guilty to defrauding investors of over $38 million and misappropriating over $8 million from his former employer. CASPERSEN pled guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Omer Gur, 36, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to his leadership of a visa fraud conspiracy involving over 140 foreign workers from Israel.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s designation of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, 10 other North Korean officials, and five North Korean entities responsible for serious human rights abuses...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the sentencing of a Winchester man convicted of Theft of Interstate Shipments. Douglas Castle, 37, was sentenced to one year and a day of incarceration by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The University of Alabama, which claims the largest fraternity and sorority community in the nation with regard to overall fraternity and sorority membership, today announced the adoption of an action plan to enhance the University’s ability to prevent and respond to racial discrimination...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Anthony Klein a/k/a Tony Klein, age 35, of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance following a 3-day federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. The jury returned the verdict on July 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Shaquana Quenella Brookins (31, Jacksonville) with two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; one count of conspiracy to distribute “crack" cocaine; on count of maintaining ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Ways and Means Announces Markup of Bipartisan Proposals to Hold the IRS Accountable, Provide Relief to Rural Hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Herbert Franklin Green, a 47-year old lawyer from Washington, DC, pled guilty today before the Honorable Juan R. Sanchez to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Co-defendant Marc Hubbard, 49 years old from Cornelius, NC, pled guilty last Thursday. The defendants pled guilty to perpetrating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: FBI Launches Anti-Public Corruption Campaign in Southern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Kimberly Michelle Bishop, the former director of Macon County’s Board of Elections was sentenced late yesterday to six months in prison for embezzling public funds, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Bishop, 44, of Franklin, N.C., was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release, the first six months of which to be served under home detention, and to pay $68,705.26 as restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have sequenced the frosty pod rot fungus genome. That advance could speed the development of cacao tree varieties that better withstand this costly blight.
