News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the planned departure of U.S. Attorney John Walsh of the District of Colorado, effective Aug. 10, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: We have reopened Precipice, Valley Cove, and Jordan Cliffs areas to public entry as of today. The NPS closed these areas on March 17 to protect the peregrine falcons from inadvertent disturbance or harassment during the nesting period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Late yesterday, a New York surgeon who practiced at hospitals in Brooklyn and Long Island was convicted for submitting millions of dollars in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare after a three-week jury trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a public meeting to discuss reducing wildfire risks in the Gilmore Trail area and to listen to the public's concerns on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at Steese Volunteer Fire Department Station 62, 585 Steele Creek Road, Fairbanks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charging by criminal complaint of Jazmin Challana Barron (33, Lehigh Acres) with making false statements during the purchase of a firearm and making false statements in records kept by a Federal Firearms Licensee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Two Ohio Men Charged with Hate Crime for Beating African-American Man.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Bruce Sillitoe arrived in Craig this week to begin his new position as the field manager for the Little Snake Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, at the Parkway Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Jefferson County Schools’ human resources director and former Hueytown Middle School principal now faces federal charges of enticing a minor and receiving and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven D. Anderson and Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The United States Government has sued a Lexington man, and the Lexington-based medical device company he owns, for violations of the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits people from submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment to the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Couple admits to withdrawing approximately $124,000 in structured cash transactions following the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Cecil Dante Buckner (36) and Jarmen Lindell Sharp (34), both of Orlando, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, and two substantive counts of interference with interstate commerce by robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in Central Islip, New York, Gregory Sclafani, an automobile transportation broker, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release based on his March 31, 2016, guilty plea to mail fraud. The defendant was also ordered to pay his victims restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force identified the defendant accessing child pornography online. A forensic examination of that computer recovered sexually explicit photographs of prepubescent girls. Choi is an English teacher with the Holley Central School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charging by criminal complaint of Jazmin Challana Barron (33, Lehigh Acres) with making false statements during the purchase of a firearm and making false statements in records kept by a Federal Firearms Licensee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The majority owner of New England Compounding Center (NECC) and her husband pleaded guilty today in connection with illegally withdrawing cash following the fungal meningitis outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Ynessa Brown and Thelonius Robertson, both of Gibsonton, to 61 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. At sentencing, Robertson and Brown were ordered to make restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Kevin John Weinreis, 50, of Tensed, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to false statement in a passport application, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Weinreis was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on Feb. 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Martin Ray Lewis, 49, of Anchorage, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 96 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, followed by five years of supervised...
