News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury brought additional criminal charges yesterday against a thoroughbred horse trainer already under indictment for wire fraud and criminal conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: John Milton Nagel, 47, was sentenced by United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after having previously pled guilty to three counts of mailing threatening communications from a foreign country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 877.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jenaro Moctezuma-Galicia, age 30, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo in Wilkes-Barre to the charge of illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY- Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, the home of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, Long Island, will present special programs and activities throughout the summer to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial in 2016. Programs will include live music, arts and crafts, history and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JORGE MALDONADO-RIOS, age 29, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to illegal reentry of a removed alien and conspiracy to transfer identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former and current Assistant United States Attorneys Wilson Leung, Stephen J. Meyer, Andrew M. Scoble, Benjamin P. Tolkoff, Acadia Leigh Senese, along with Kevin Costello, Maureen French, Ponly J. Tu, Daniel Charlier-Smith and Maryam Beros of the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Thomas S. Duszkiewicz and Joel L. Violanti, who are handling the case, stated that between 2009 and Jan. 23, 2012, Finch and Hayward were members of the LRGP gang which operates primarily in the area of Lombard, Rother, Gibson and Playter Streets in the City of Buffalo. It is alleged to be an organization engaged in violent criminal activity, including the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine and the use of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mark T. D’Alessandro, Executive Assistant United States Attorney and Kimberly R. Robinson, Special Assistant United States Attorney, both employees of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, were two of 160 recipients recognized by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 32nd annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla: Everglades National Park invites the public to enjoy a photography exhibit by members of the South Florida National Parks Camera Club at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Gallery during the whole month of June. An Artist's Reception is being held on Sunday, June 5 from 2:00-4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri announced that former Independence, Missouri, Police Officer Timothy Runnels was sentenced to 4 years in prison for violating the constitutional rights of a minor who was in his custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark on Nov. 15, 2015, in North Minneapolis, Minnesota, found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal civil rights charges against Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Officers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Native American Enterprises LLC (NAE), of Wichita, Kansas; its vice president and part-owner, William N. McGreevy; and its production manager, Robert C. Conner, to stop the distribution of adulterated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: 66 Dogs Rescued Six New Jersey residents were among nine individuals charged today in four states for their alleged roles in an interstate dog-fighting network spanning from New Mexico to New Jersey, announced Assistant Attorney General John Cruden for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman for the District of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with Napa County, California, to ensure compliance with provisions of the Voting Rights Act that require the county to provide bilingual election materials and information in Spanish to voters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Defendants Used Money to Finance a Lavish Lifestyle Florence Bikundi, 53, and her husband, Michael D. Bikundi Sr. 63, of Mitchellville, Maryland, and the owners of Global Healthcare Inc., a home care agency, were sentenced today to prison terms for health care fraud, money laundering, and other charges stemming from a scheme in which they and others defrauded the District of Columbia Medicaid program of over $80 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: A federal jury convicted eight defendants today of multiple charges related to a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, after a 16-week trial.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that four Cabinet secretaries will participate in the 2016 SelectUSA Investment Summit, June 20-21, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. In addition to Secretary Pritzker, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of Agriculture ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced the award of $36 million in Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program grants today to help an estimated 17,000 veterans successfully transition to sustainable housing and good civilian jobs. The grants will fund a variety of services to assist homeless veterans in their return to the labor force including occupational, classroom and on-the-job training, as well as job search and placement assistance.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. – A Louisiana subcontractor was paying laborer’s wages to Karl Fusilier, a plumber working on the $8 million, federally funded Choctaw Lodge project in Baton Rouge. While the law requires his employer to pay him and co-workers as plumbers for skilled plumbing work, U.S. Department of Labor investigators say the subcontractor misclassified the three as “laborers,” cheating them of nearly $11 per hour.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited a Steuben County rail manufacturing and repair service facility for 17 serious violations, including exposing employees to unsafe levels of known cancer-causing chemicals such as cadmium , lead , nickel and silica.
