News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Historically, water quality monitoring programs have relied on traditional techniques, such as culturing microorganisms (e.g., E. coli, enterococci) in the laboratory, to evaluate if beaches are safe for swimming, surfing, and other water-exposure recreational activities. However, the significant time-lapse...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -Florence Bikundi and her husband, Michael D. Bikundi, Sr., 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: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Ericka Simmons, 28, of Hammond, Indiana was sentenced before Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, for conspiracy to distribute Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Approximately 66 Dogs Rescued. NEWARK, N.J. - 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, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman for the District of New Jersey and Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ten Assistant United States Attorneys from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and three federal agents were among the 160 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Deputy Attorney General 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: 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: Springfield, Ill. - Former Danville, Ill., business owner Joseph Samuel Kozicki has been ordered to serve 15 months in federal prison for defrauding a U.S. Department of Energy grant program. Kozicki, 80, currently resides in California. He waived his personal appearance to appear by video for sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, age 35, of Bogalusa, pled guilty today to three counts of a superseding Bill of Information, in which he was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride, possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base (“crack"), and felon in possession of a firearm.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hicks: We are writing to request information about the decision by Brian D. Newby, the Executive Director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), on Jan. 29, 2016, to amend the federal voter registration form to require proof of citizenship in Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas.
By DOL Newswire | 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Delano Reid, the New York Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - A Virginia man, who conspired with at least one other person to distribute methamphetamine, pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Willie Harper, 47, of Guilford, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of distribution of heroin and one count of distribution of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Dr. Cristina V. Beato, Executive Director for Health Policy and International Medicine, UNM Health Sciences Center, will participate in the June 2, 2016 meeting of the Silver Barelas Downtown Neighborhood Association as part of the prevention and education...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Topeka real estate developer Kent E. Lindemuth was indicted Wednesday on federal bankruptcy fraud charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant U.S. Attorney Byron Chatfield of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Oregon 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: Kenyetta Wilbourn Snapp, 41, a former Educational Achievement Authority (“EAA") principal of Denby High School and later of Mumford High School, was sentenced today to twelve months in prison as a result of her pleading guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Please join Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) for a special presentation ofStory-Songs of Historyby author, singer-songwriter and New Jersey resident Gordon Thomas Ward. This delightful performance of stirring tales, told through song and spoken word captures both attention and imagination. Haunting...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) sent a letter to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) as part of the Subcommittee’s ongoing oversight of ethical lapses and violations of federal law at DOI, and the pattern of evasion from the Department’s senior leadership and DOI’s OIG.
