News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced the sentencing of a Lynchburg woman on a variety of fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant found guilty of stealing Social Security benefits totaling over $76,000.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held a field hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Kenai to examine the challenges and impacts of federal regulations and wildfire management on outdoor recreation, hunting and fishing opportunities, and tourism on public lands on the Kenai ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Cape Lookout National Seashore is a Diamond in the Rough among the 411 national park units. This year, the National Seashore observes its 50th Anniversary as part of the national park system, which came to fruition on March 10, 1966, the day President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the 56-mile long natural...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Yazzie-Tso, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Santa Fe, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An inmate of SCI Somerset, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court on a charge of making threats against the President, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on proposed supplementary rules for Guffey Gorge. An increasing number of visitors are drawn to Guffey Gorge because of the scenic canyon carved out by Fourmile Creek and its unique, water-based recreation opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release and ordered to pay $249,664.80 in restitution on her conviction of issuing forged checks, theft of government money and access device fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
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: NEWARK, N.J. - Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Sabrina G. Comizzoli of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey was one 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ronald Mason, age 47, has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud scheme that involved the theft of more than $625,000 from five New Hampshire residents, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Travis Felty, Shanna Castillo Admit to Federal Charges Related To the Manufacturing of Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, JOSEPH HAL KINLAW, JR., 63, of Bald Head Island, North Carolina, pled guilty to Bank Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Superintendent F. Gus Sanchez reminds those planning to visit Chamizal National Memorial in the coming months of our summer alcohol ban. The ban is in effect from June 1 -August 31 of each year, traditionally our hottest months in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, for visitor safety and to promote family-oriented...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Wilson Garcia, 33, of Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking heroin and fentanyl. Garcia admitted to the court that on multiple occasions he sold heroin and fentanyl in Rhode Island while on bail and awaiting trial in Massachusetts for allegedly...
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: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Lasater (619) 546-7462 or Benjamin Katz (619) 546-9604.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: On Wednesday, June 8, 2016-World Oceans Day -at 11 am, the public is invited to a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of a new Ocean Exploration Center at the Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center. A collaboration between the National Park Service and NOAA's Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones national...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dorian Maurice Griffin, age 20, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to aggravated identity theft. Four co-defendants have previously pleaded guilty to the scheme, in which the defendants deposited counterfeit checks drawn on the accounts of identity theft victims into bank accounts opened by the defendants in the name of shell companies. The defendants then withdrew the funds before the fraud could be detected.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - The former Winnebago County Purchasing Director pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to two counts of theft from a program receiving federal funds. SALLY A. CLAASSEN, 57, of Roscoe, Ill., was an employee of Winnebago County from March 3, 1997, until she resigned on Sept. 11, 2015. Claassen’s job title prior to her resignation was Purchasing Director.
