News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted helping funnel $80,000 in campaign contributions from a foreign source to the joint fundraising committee of the President of the United States during the 2012 presidential election, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As plans for July 4th celebrations kick into high gear, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is urging employers in the fireworks and pyrotechnics industry to protect their workers from hazards while manufacturing, storing, transporting, displaying and selling fireworks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach Settlement with BancorpSouth Bank to Resolve Allegations of Mortgage Lending Discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, late yesterday, found William J. O’Brien III, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, guilty of causing a death through the illegal distribution of a controlled substance and a number of other charges related to the operation of a “pill mill," announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the terrorist attack in Istanbul...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against four defendants on all counts as charged in a $6 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Giam Nguyen, D.O., 46, of Houston, Benjamin Martinez, M.D., 35, of Dallas, Donovan Simmons, M.D., 43 of Austin, and Anna Bagoumian, 43 of Glendale, California, were convicted late yesterday following an eight-day trial and approximately 13 hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Six Honduran Police Officers Allegedly Conspired With the Son of the Former President of Honduras to Import Cocaine into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Travis John Jenner (38, Naples) to five years and six months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on January 5, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: After weeks of rising expectations, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) National Historical Park is proud to announce the Western Maryland Railroad Lift Bridge at Williamsport, the only bridge of its kind along 184.5 miles of the C&O Canal, has been raised and secured in position. For the first...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - Superintendent Trish Kicklighter announced today that crews are still out assessing flood impacts to park facilities including campgrounds, parking lots, boat launches, beaches, roads, and trails at New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Chinese National Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Smuggling High Tech U.S. Military Hardware to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NOE JUAREZ, a resident of Houston, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Sarah S. Vance to serve 365 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA JULY 1 -31.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: The collaboration of local, state and federal law enforcement under the Detroit One initiative has led to the indictment and arrests of two members of the 6 Mile Chedda Grove street gang for a shooting that involved children, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a Canyon Ferry Public Meeting on
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raytown, Mo., man who worked or volunteered at two area churches was indicted by a federal grand jury today for embezzling more than $86,000 from those parishes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Current and forecasted weather conditions coupled with extremely dry conditions and heavy loading of vegetation throughout Southeast Utah have created hazardous fire conditions. As a result, as of, July 1, 2016, all State, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and National Park Service lands and all unincorporated private lands in the following lands are under fire restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, late yesterday, found William J. O’Brien III, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, guilty of causing a death through the illegal distribution of a controlled substance and a number of other charges related to the operation of a “pill mill," announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Ales Svak, 43, and a citizen of the Czech Republic, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for transportation, receipt and possession of child pornography he accessed while visiting the United States, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...
