News from June 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday to examine ISIS ideology and how it relates to the most recent terror attack in Orlando. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Xin Franco Fan, 40, and Rex Xu Yu, 41, two Chinese nationals, were charged via criminal information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services wire fraud for defrauding Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company out of at least $1.5 million, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A Homestead resident was sentenced to three years’ probation for illegally trafficking in marine life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newton, New Jersey, man today admitted that he planned the kidnapping and murder of a woman he met online, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Randall Jennings, 48, Hudson, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned an indictment charging three individuals for their part in a house flipping scheme involving Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on June 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 21, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new program that will help rural residents conserve energy and save money on their utility bills. The new Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP) will make $52 million in loans available to energy providers to help rural families and small businesses reduce their energy use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the closure of its case concerning the provision of language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the state court system following the successful implementation of reforms by the Colorado Judicial Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Today, the Justice Department, prisoner class and city of New Orleans reached a settlement with Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman to resolve the department’s motion for contempt alleging the sheriff’s non-compliance with a consent judgment governing conditions of confinement at the Orleans Parish ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: The national grocery store chain Trader Joe’s Company has agreed to reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases from refrigeration equipment at 453 of its stores under a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve alleged violations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A San Antonio, Texas, artist was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio to 12 months in prison by U.S. Magistrate Judge John W. Primomo, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Philadelphia found Congressman Chaka Fattah Sr., 59, guilty of all charges against him. Fattah and three of his four associates were found guilty of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further their political and financial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A subsidiary of Massachusetts technology company Analogic Corporation entered into a non-prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $3.4 million penalty today to resolve the government’s investigation into improper payments made in Russia and elsewhere in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Scranton, Pennsylvania, returned a superseding indictment today, charging a Forty Fort, Pennsylvania periodontist with one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws and two counts of filing false tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: In a nine-count indictment unsealed today, two Mississippi correctional officers were charged with beating an inmate and a third was charged with helping to cover it up. The indictment charged Lawardrick Marsher, 28, and Robert Sturdivant, 47, officers at Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that two Alabama pharmacists have been sentenced to 12 and 10 months in prison for their roles in the distribution of adulterated drugs, which were compounded at the now-defunct compounding pharmacy Advanced Specialty Pharmacy doing business as Meds IV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: 18 Year Old Attempted to Travel Overseas to Join ISIL A Brownsburg, Indiana, man was arrested today for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The arrest was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler of the Southern District of Indiana and Special Agent in Charge W. Jay Abbott of the FBI’s Indiana Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Nicole and Calvin Eason were sentenced today to each serve 40 years in prison for kidnapping and transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Oakland, California, found a local business owner guilty of three counts of tax evasion after an eight-day trial, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch of the Northern District ...
