News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Christopher Pappano, age 55, of Milton, Vermont, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on drug and weapons charges by U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford in U.S. District Court in Rutland on June 8, 2016. Judge Crawford also ordered Pappano to serve a five-year term of supervised release after completing his 10-year jail term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man pleaded guilty today to carjacking and a drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. David Allen Young, 24, entered his guilty plea to two counts of carjacking and one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - DEA agents arrested three Arizona residents and seized a total of nine pounds of methamphetamine and 1.73 pounds of heroin during interdiction investigations at the Greyhound Bus Station in Albuquerque, N.M., on June 17, 2016. The three arrestees made their initial appearances in federal court this morning on separate criminal complaints. They remain in custody pending preliminary hearings and detention hearings, which are scheduled for tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: A tax service business owner was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of MUHAMMED FATTY, 41, to multiple charges related to tax refund fraud and fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship. On June 15, 2016, FATTY pleaded guilty before Judge Donovan W. Frank to one count of unlawful procurement of naturalization and one count of making false claims in relation to tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: There will be a press conference today at 12:00 p.m. to announce charges against several New York City Police Department officers and others for public corruption offenses. Relevant charging documents are attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Ship Discharged Oily Waste on Voyage from China to Seattle; False Log Books given to Coast Guard Inspectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Operation Homeless. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Atlanta, Ga., man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a bank fraud conspiracy that used homeless men to cash counterfeit payroll checks at banks in the Kansas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Stephen T. Callis, 47, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for enticement of a minor, and sex trafficking of children. Callis was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced several bipartisan bills that will help strengthen higher education for students and taxpayers. The legislative proposals will help simplify and improve the student financial aid process, as well as enhance existing support and accountability for institutions serving minority students.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers has developed an Environmental Assessment for the Remediation of Selected Contaminated Mine Drainage Sites in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in McCreary County, Kentucky. The proposed reclamation sites are...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nicholas County woman who issued herself prescriptions without authorization from a doctor pleaded guilty today, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Cary Lynn Eades, 47, of Mount Nebo, entered her guilty plea to obtaining the prescription opioid pain medication tramadol by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Robert C. Hutchinson, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, announce that Timoteo Reyes-Perez, 35, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: On June 15, 2016, Nicholas C.J. Draege, 25, of DuQuoin, was sentenced for a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Nursing facilities and other institutions do not always provide the care and dignity that elderly residents deserve, and millions of elderly Americans suffer each year from other forms of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. Facility and institutional failures to provide the care the government...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Throughout this week, the Obama Administration will be highlighting America’s capacity for creativity and invention and how our innovative progress over the last seven and a half years has helped continue to make our economy the strongest and most durable in the world. As part of this effort, today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tavon Slowe, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from two murder for hire contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Suffolk University employee pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with fraudulently obtaining over $40,000 in federal student loan funds by falsifying her own records to make it appear that she was a Suffolk University graduate student when in fact she was not.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Pharmaceuticals included drugs for cancer treatment.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing on Thursday, June 23 to examine U.S. efforts to counter radical Islamists online, and stop terrorists’ use of the Internet and social media to recruit and radicalize fighters. The hearing, entitled “Countering the Virtual Caliphate, " will begin at 10 a.m.
