News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 37-year-old Mexican national who resided in Chicago at the time of his arrest was sentenced on Tuesday to serve four years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities in Chicago have charged the alleged owner of today’s most-visited illegal file-sharing website with criminal copyright infringement and have seized domain names associated with the website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of Southwestern Energy Co. has been ordered to prison following her conviction of embezzlement, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kendra Walker, 28, pleaded guilty to embezzling $452,025.56.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special, 90-minute caravan tour on Sunday, July 31 at 1 pm at Chickamauga Battlefield. This program is being conducted in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of General George Thomas' birth and will caravan to the sites of General Thomas' headquarters on the battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S Attorney Patrick Miles announced that Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, a resident of Kentucky, and formerly of Wyoming and Lansing, Michigan, pled guilty in United States District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and health care fraud. The conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 9 indictments charging 10 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve management and wildlife staff have decided to postpone tomorrow’s scheduled reopening of trails in the Savage River area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Nishikawa Rubber Co. Ltd. (Nishikawa) has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $130 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of and rig the bids for automotive body sealing products installed in cars sold to U.S. consumers, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Sales of Acclarent, Inc., a medical device company, were convicted by a federal jury in connection with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Charges Also Unsealed Against Former Head of Foreign Exchange Cash-Trading Desk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The former leader of notorious street gang FAM Mob has been sentenced to federal prison for violating the RICO Act. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he took part in an armed robbery at a Stillwell bank before leading police on a high speed chase with a child in his car, Acting U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he took part in an armed robbery at a Stillwell bank before leading police on a high speed chase with a child in his car, Acting U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. B Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), formerly headquartered in Columbia, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to transferring nearly $1.4 million to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Ronald E. Wheaton, 35, of LaPorte, Indiana was sentenced before Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S Attorney Patrick Miles announced that Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, a resident of Kentucky, and formerly of Wyoming and Lansing, Michigan, pled guilty in United States District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and health care fraud. The conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
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By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: MOAB, Utah- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Canyon Country District today released a proposed plan designed to guide mineral development in and around Moab, Utah while also protecting important cultural and recreational sites. The Moab Master Leasing Plan and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments/...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Monsuru Giwa, 24, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of assaulting a federal officer, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - John Kent Davis, 66, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today for interstate communication of a threat of bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
