News from June 2016
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: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national was charged in federal court today after law enforcement officers seized his suitcase containing more than 15 kilograms of cocaine from a Greyhound bus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Last night the downtown Cedar Rapids Main Library hosted a follow-on Town Hall to discuss treatment options available to tackle the opioid and heroin epidemic facing the greater Cedar Rapids community.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Tom Wheeler regarding the FCC’s April 1, 2016, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to prison today for attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and for attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jeffrey Pare, 29, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to trafficking Oxycodone. Pare pleaded guilty as charged in a federal indictment returned on Aug. 19, 2015, to three counts of distribution of Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - South Carolina businessmen Vladimir Handl and Michael Rose each were sentenced to more than three years in prison for their respective roles in a racketeering, money-laundering, and drug trafficking scheme, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alan Dasher, Erika Antonio, Patrick H. Hearn, Mary M. Englehart, Lashanda Freeman, Cynthia L. Allard, Marc B. Imes and Richard Hartline were recognized for “Superior Performance by a Litigation Team" 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: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - An accounting clerk in the Food and Nutrition Services Division of the Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) has admitted to stealing cash proceeds from concessions sales at four schools for nearly six years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leticia Arreola, 38, of Los Fresnos, entered a guilty plea this morning a one-count criminal information to theft concerning programs receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Prescribed opiate pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Tom Wheeler regarding the FCC’s April 1, 2016, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Prescribed opiate pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Sherrod Ogletree, 20, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and production of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Wilson Garcia admits to drug trafficking in R.I. while awaiting trial in Mass. for allegedly selling heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael C. Hanlon and William D. Moomau, and Law Enforcement Coordinator Steven J. Hess of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland, were three 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: BOSTON - A Greenwich, Conn. man was indicted today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection embezzling $54 million from the private equity firm for which he worked.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate potential violations of federal law by StemExpress and a number of abortion clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tiffany Renee Taylor, 26, of Clarksburg, pled guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
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.
