News from June 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Catch Two-Time Armed Bank Robbery Suspect.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Consumers can now buy double chocolate chip brownie, chocolate chip cookie and lemon poppy seed muffin mixes made from a rice flour blend developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists that reduces oil absorption during cooking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Ran Pain Management Practice in Southeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Murray Huberfeld, Founder of Manhattan-based Hedge Fund, Also Charged For Paying Off Seabrook to Invest in the Fund.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Eduardo Galan, 65, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering, was sentenced to three years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay $1,100,000 in restitution to the victims of the fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A senior sales executive at a seafood processing company in Gloucester was indicted yesterday on federal tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Seven north Texas residents remain in federal custody following their arrests last week on federal charges outlined in a just-unsealed indictment that alleges various offenses related to their roles in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two men were sentenced today for federal drug crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Wilbur Arnold, Jr., 50, of White Sulphur Springs, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine. In a separate prosecution, Michael Shepard, 23, of Beckley, was sentenced to ten months in federal prison for distribution of heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor who admitted taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates was sentenced today to 37 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Khalid Fahide Carter, age 22, of Harrisburg was arrested yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Capital City Safe Streets Task Force and the Harrisburg Bureau of Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Eduardo Galan, 65, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering, was sentenced to three years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay $1,100,000 in restitution to the victims of the fraud.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following opening statement at an executive session to consider two Social Security and Medicare Trustees nominations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that NORMAN SEABROOK and MURRAY HUBERFELD were arrested this morning and charged...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Matthew P. Charo, age 34, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was indicted today and accused of distributing heroin to a woman who died from taking it.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON: Play ball! Educators have a new resource to help teach young and old alike about segregation and baseball history. The National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) has published A Field of Dreams: The Jackie Robinson Ballpark lesson plan about the historic ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida, where Jackie Robinson "broke the color barrier" in baseball during Spring Training in 1946.

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Rules Committee announcing the Republican majority will abandon open rules and restrict the content of amendments to Appropriations bills.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area (ONA) is pleased to announce its 2016 Artist-in-Residence program. The program offers professional visual artists, performing artists, and writers the opportunity to pursue their artistic disciplines, inspired by the majesty of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and its surrounding natural area. The application period for this program runs until July 31, 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Matthew P. Charo, age 34, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was indicted today and accused of distributing heroin to a woman who died from taking it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Kenneth Kezeor pleaded guilty yesterday to intentionally damaging a protected computer, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. In pleaded guilty, Kezeor acknowledged attacking a corporate computer application of his former employer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this Member Day hearing on legislation to improve and sustain the Medicare Program. I welcome this opportunity to learn more about the ideas that our colleagues will discuss today.