News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Group staged car crashes to collect over $1.4 million in fraudulent insurance claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that BRANDON RAY PARKER, age 40, of McAlester, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: This holiday weekend Yellowstone National Park rangers ask all park visitors to arrive in the park prepared for a safe, enjoyable and rewarding experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Cullman County man to 45 years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography after two previous child sexual abuse convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Homeland Security Investigations, New Orleans Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: City Lost Over $7 Million in Two Longstanding Schemes in Which Commercial Trash Haulers Paid Bribes to Dump Trash Without Paying Disposal Fees and Employees Stole Salvageable Metals.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: With the 4th of July holiday, warmer and drier temperatures and increased outdoor recreation, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management, our good friend Smokey Bear, and our wildland firefighters would like to remind everyone to be safe and responsible when enjoying public lands. So far this year BLM fire...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A Tennessee man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for traveling to Ohio to sexually exploit a 14-year-old, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a 16-month project for $441,706 to Hitron Technologies, Inc., based in Lexington, Kentucky, to ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 We support the announcement made today by Secretary of Defense Carter regarding the service of transgender individuals in the U.S. armed forces. The U.S. Coast Guard has been involved in the Department of Defense's extensive review of this ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses affected by flooding in West Virginia that USDA has several programs which provide assistance before, during and after disasters. USDA staff in regional, State and county offices are ready to help.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, Virginia, June 30, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced five Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant awards to help provide treatment for the growing opioid epidemic in rural central Appalachia. Vilsack made the announcement as he hosted a town hall in Abingdon to ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of $8.4 million in competitive grants to support the work of partner organizations that provide training, outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged, Tribal and Veteran farmers and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: *******MEDIA ADVISORY******* Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Facebook will hold a Community Policing Town Hall on Facebook Live at Facebook’s Playa Vista Campus, today, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m. ET. The town hall will be moderated by actor Michael B. Jordan, star of Creed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A 12-count indictment was unsealed today charging four current and former Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) Caguas Drug Unit officers with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice arising out of a police operation conducted in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 15, 2015. The indictment alleges that during the police operation, the officers used excessive force against two arrestees and that they unlawfully seized, concealed and destroyed evidence of their misconduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A Louisiana woman was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for conspiring to commit sex trafficking of a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney J. Walter Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey S. Sallet of the FBI’s New Orleans Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A Las Vegas-area dentist was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for tax evasion, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department and the Republic of El Salvador established a formal partnership today to protect workers from discrimination based on citizenship, immigration status and national origin. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A Marietta, Georgia, resident pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia today to one count of theft of public money and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: An Ocala, Florida, cardiologist, Dr. Asad Qamar, and his practice, the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence (ICE), will pay $2 million, plus release any claim to $5.3 million in suspended Medicare funds, to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they improperly billed Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has permanently barred a Broward County man from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
