News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Two men from Moore County, Texas have pleaded guilty to federal offenses stemming from their respective roles in trafficking major quantities of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Employer name: MillerCoors Fort Worth brewery
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that an investigation into a recent drug overdose death of a man in Monroe and a non-fatal overdose...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Steven Villareal (30, Jacksonville) to five years and three months in federal prison for the arson of BLC Automotive on Blanding Boulevard. He was also ordered to pay BLC Automotive restitution in the amount of $30,000. Villareal pleaded guilty on Feb. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of a Criminal Information yesterday charging Lori Regel-Childs with misappropriation of funds from the U.S. Post Office in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on reproductive and maternal health needs of women refugees at a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) event on Capitol Hill marking World Refugee Day...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today offered an amendment to the FY2017 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to prevent potential terrorists from purchasing firearms, in the first House votes on gun policy since the tragic Orlando attack that killed 49 individuals.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Renewing Communities and Providing Opportunities Through Innovative Solutions to Poverty." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 TEL AVIV, Israel— Today, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas concluded a three-day trip to Israel, where he delivered remarks at the 6th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference and met with Israeli counterparts to discuss a range of homeland security-related issues, including cybersecurity, law enforcement cooperation, and counterterrorism cooperation.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 22, 2016 - Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have published a new study that demonstrates that agricultural conservation practices in the upper Mississippi River watershed can reduce nitrogen inputs to area streams and rivers by as much as 34 percent.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Underscores Need for Congress to Take Action on Fire Budget Fix VALLEJO, Calif., June 22, 2016 - The U.S. Forest Service today announced that it has identified an additional 26 million trees dead in California since October 2015. These trees are located in six counties across 760,000 acres in the southern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Most Defendants Charged and Largest Alleged Loss Amount in Strike Force History Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Macy’s over allegations that the large national retailer violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens at its Glendale, California, location.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Thomas Harper, a former officer and owner of MCC Construction Company (MCC), pleaded guilty today to conspiring to obstruct justice before the Small Business Administration (SBA). Harper also agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $165,711, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: A federal court in Tampa, Florida, has permanently barred a Bradenton, Florida, man from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: A former Credit Suisse AG banker, who has been a fugitive since 2011, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia to charges related to aiding and assisting U.S. taxpayers in evading their income taxes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Joseph Chait, 38, of Beverly Hills, California, the senior auction administrator of I.M. Chait Gallery, located in Beverly Hills, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: A Forest City, Iowa, businessman pleaded guilty today in federal court to failing to pay employment taxes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: UBS AG has complied with an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) summons for bank records held in its Singapore office, the Justice Department announced today. Because UBS has now produced all Singapore-based records responsive to the request and the IRS determined that UBS complied with the summons, the Justice Department has voluntarily dismissed its summons enforcement action against the bank.
