News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Carlos A. Brown, 45, of Suffolk, pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment that now accuses a Laguna Beach man of defrauding victims out of more than $3 million in an investment fraud scam related to green energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARRY FLETCHER was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to 36 months in prison for taking more than $20,000 in bribes in exchange for awarding more than $240,000 in food stamp benefits. FLETCHER, a former...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions begin July 29 for Bureau of Land Management-administered lands in Garfield County.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: BOISE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, at the Boise District Office from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Boise at 3948 S. Development Avenue. A public comment period will be held at 11 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert Blake Jackson, 31, of Pensacola, made an initial appearance today in federal court after being arrested this morning on a charge of making materially false statements in a federal investigation. The criminal complaint was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Richard Sullivan, 24, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Thursday in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, for possessing child pornography. According to United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice, the Court imposed a sentence of 24 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 7 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) applauded the announcement that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has reconsidered two proposals that would have significantly delayed Amtrak train travel throughout Oregon and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - - Michael Smith, 35, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with eight counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: MADISON CO, MS-On Monday, July 25, 2016, at 8:53 a.m., emergency responders were dispatched to a collision involving a motor vehicle and a bicyclist on the Natchez Trace Parkway just north of the Boyd Site (milepost 107). Amy Biernat (44), of Madison, MS, was riding her bicycle north on the Parkway when...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Yvonne E. Borders, 43, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of theft of government funds, was sentence to two years probation by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $18,550 to the New York State Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Stolen Identity Refund Fraud and Bank Fraud Schemes Used the Personal Identifying Information of Individual Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: Tywin Bender instructed other gang members to “Smash him as soon as you all catch him".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that three Cuban nationals, all residing in Florida, pled guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Two other defendants have already pled guilty in the case, which charged six defendants in total.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of Bocomo Bay, a Columbia, Mo., retail business, pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $2 million of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued one of the world's most intricate measurement standards: an exhaustively analyzed antibody protein that the biopharmaceutical industry will use to help ensure the quality of treatments across a widening range of health conditions, including cancers, autoimmune disorders and infectious diseases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Dauphin County man was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 27, 2016, for distribution of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute over 28 grams of cocaine base, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Court Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Stacy Miranda Phillips, 29, of Montague, today to two years in prison and ordered her to pay $2,163 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service for aggravated ID theft related to her participation in a bank fraud and identity theft scheme, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) release of updated revisions to Circular A-130, which establishes OMB’s official policy and guidance on information technology management and cybersecurity for federal agencies.
