News from July 2016
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Dr. Isaac Kojo Anakwah Thompson, M.D. 57, of Delray Beach, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William J. Zloch to 46 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release, after having previously pled guilty to health care fraud. Dr. Thompson was further ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,114,332.33.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today “the FBI’s New Orleans Division, the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling. The Justice Department will collect...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa will hold a media availability opportunity this Friday to discuss the sentencing of the former superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Christopher Michael Salisbury, age 38, of Long Beach, California, formerly of Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old woman admitted she aided her sister in kidnapping two children from their Corpus Christi home, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Georgia Gregg pleaded guilty today, while her sister - Jada Gregg-Warren, 32 - and her sister’s boyfriend - Ivan Francisco Alvarez-Benavente, 26, pleaded guilty June 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for possessing images of child sexual abuse on his computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Tucson Field Office is seeking public input as it plans to address safety hazards created by an ailing cottonwood tree located in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is extending the comment period for the Environmental Assessment for the Management and Removal of Feral Animals in the Upper Elevations of Nu'u, Maui. The public will have until close of business on July 29, 2016 to comment on the document.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREW HUTCHINSON, age, 25, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children. Specifically, HUTCHINSON pleaded guilty to receiving and attempting to receive sexually explicit images of children.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Reps. Bill Shuster (R-PA.) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chairman and ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Gregory Lee Butler, Jr., a/k/a Greg Baly, age 22, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the federal indictment charging him with obstruction of firefighters during a civil disorder, in connection with a fire at CVS during the civil disturbance in Baltimore on April 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Audi N. Sumilat, a resident of El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a scheme to illegally buy numerous guns and then smuggle them out of the country for the benefit of members of the protective security detail of the President and the Vice President of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Saul Hicks Williams, 35, of Inwood, West Virginia with failure to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After an 18-month-long investigation, the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee and the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold hearings this week on the Obama Administration’s unlawful funding of the cost sharing reduction (CSR) program, which was established under the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Kenneth Wallace, age 44, of Hayneville, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve 5 ½ years in prison for possession with intent to distribute Methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell handed down the sentence in Macon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Chairman Jason Chaffetz called an emergency hearing for this Thursday less than 48 hours after FBI Director James Comey recommended against any prosecution of Hillary Clinton relating to her use of private email...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: A Toledo, Ohio, grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Yahya Farooq Mohammad today, charging him with soliciting the murder of a federal judge, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade for the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WAYLON GIVENS, age 42, of Amite, was sentenced today after having pled guilty to illegal possession of a machine gun and making a false statement the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Draft Environmental Assessment on the issuance of Special Event Permits (SEP) to evaluate opportunities for an
