News published on Federal Newswire in June 2016

News from June 2016


Dog Dies on Joshua Tree National Park Hiking Trail

News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA - A pet dog died on the Lost Palms Oasis trail on Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, when two male park visitors from Long Beach, Calif., took the animal with them on a seven-mile desert hike. Pets are not permitted on trails in Joshua Tree National Park.


Former Landover Company Employee Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Fraudulently Obtaining Business Expenses

News Release: Caused His Employer to Believe Demand for its Services Was Growing Exponentially; Employer Stopped Pursuing New Contracts, Sought Larger Lines of Credit and Hired New Employees.


News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Akeem Harris, age 26, of Newark, Delaware pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering before U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in connection with the theft of more than $450,000. Harris is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 13, 2016.


Nevada Man Pleads Guilty To $5 Million Investment Fraud Scheme

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada man today admitted defrauding investors out of more than $5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Additional Charges, Additional Defendants In Case Of Robbers Who Disguised Themselves As Police

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment was unsealed today in a case involving a violent robbery conspiracy that included armed robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, and drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Special Agent-in-Charge Sam Rabadi with the Bureau of Alcohol...


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada man today admitted defrauding investors out of more than $5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


More than $11 million in grants will improve fishing opportunities, observations, resiliency and sustainability

News Release: Today, NOAA is recommending more than $11 million in funding for 50 projects across the nation.


Citizen of Guatemala Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Illegally Returning to U.S., Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Guatemala has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of illegal re-entry after deportation and failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Donald J. Shappy, Jr., age 57, of Keeseville, NY, and Jonathon P. Shappy, age 27, of Schuyler Falls, NY, were arraigned today on an indictment alleging that Donald Shappy made false statements during the purchase of a firearm, and that Jonathon Shappy aided and abetted the statements.


Commodity Pool Operator Arrested And Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With $23 Million Commodities Fraud

News Release: Haena Park Charged with Defrauding More than 20 Individual Investors.


Newark Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and Money Laundering

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Akeem Harris, age 26, of Newark, Delaware pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering before U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in connection with the theft of more than $450,000. Harris is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 13, 2016.


NOAA issues proposed rules designating Atlantic sturgeon critical habitat

News Release: NOAA Fisheries today announced two proposed rules to designate critical habitat for five distinct population segments of federally listed Atlantic sturgeon.


News Release: BILLINGS - Olaf James Haugen, 29, of Lame Deer was sentenced today to 210 months in prison and 10 years’ supervised release for rape. Federal District Court Judge Susan P. Watters issued the sentence.


Two Former Deutsche Bank Employees Indicted on Fraud Charges in Connection with Long-Running Manipulation of LIBOR

News Release: Two former Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank) traders-the bank’s supervisor of the Pool Trading Desk in New York and a derivatives trader in London-were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the U.S. Dollar (USD) London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate to which trillions of dollars in interest rate contracts were tied.


Central City Woman Charged with Financial Abuse of Her Elderly Grandfather

News Release: Jessica Lynn Roloson, 40, from Central City, Iowa, has been charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.­ The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed earlier this week in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.


Owner And Chief Financial Officer Of Healthcare Company Sentenced To Prison For Their Roles In Fraud Scheme

News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - BARBARA A. SADLER, age 63, of Zachary, Louisiana, and SEDRIC C. BLAKES, age 42, of Zachary, Louisiana, have been sentenced to federal prison arising out of their convictions in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud the Louisiana Medicaid program through Extraordinary Care Network, Inc. (“Extraordinary"), an attendant care services company that SADLER and BLAKES owned and operated.


News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today in federal court in Scranton by United States District Judge James M. Munley, to serve 41 months in prison on the charge of failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements.


News Release: Northside daycare employee produced child pornography victimizing a four year old.


News Release: FORT WAYNE -United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Fort Wayne returned a 12-count indictment against Carlos Sanchez, 30, and Matthew Warner, 21, both of Fort Wayne, Indiana.


Project Safe Childhood Salem Man Sentenced For Child Pornography Possession

News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Matthew Castricone, 27, of Salem, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison by the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.