News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today federal authorities arrested 34 members of a drug trafficking organization which operated in the Santiago Iglesias Public Housing Project, in the municipality of Ponce, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Police of Puerto Rico Ponce Strike Force are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: As set forth in the indictment, between May 2009 and 2013, Pfeiffer and Colton are accused of defrauding among others.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford-based company pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston to willfully violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, resulting in the death of an employee at the company’s facility in South Beloit, Ill.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. - On July 11, 2014, a worker at Lloyd Industries' Montgomeryville plant suffered the amputation of three fingers after a machine without safety guards crushed his hand. The company, a leading manufacturer of fire dampers and HVAC products, fired him immediately after the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant, his Father and his Aunt were Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative for Kidnapping a Woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Transporting Her to Deming, New Mexico, where she was Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: KILN, Miss. - When followed, safety standards save lives and painful injuries. In the construction industry, ignoring them can lead to disaster as it did for 54-year-old Gary Berthelot.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging NATHANIEL SMITH, 29, of Aurora, Colo., with one count of enticement of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- The experience and wisdom of boat captains and scientists combine in free fishing classes taught by Biscayne National Park experts. The three and a half hour classes begin at 6:00 PM on April 6, July 20, October 26 and Dec. 14, 2016. The classes are offered in both English and Spanish at Suniland Park, 8398 SW 128th Street in Pinecrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for his role in a tax fraud conspiracy scheme that fraudulently claimed more than $1.2 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Quinton Darnell McLean, age 21, of Washington, D.C., has been charged by federal criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The criminal complaint was filed on Feb. 29, 2016, and McLean has an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt today at 2:40 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge William Connelly.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Miguel Trujillo, a FIFA match agent and soccer consultant, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his participation in multiple schemes to bribe soccer officials. Trujillo also pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Face at least 20 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Moises Valdez, 41, of Humble, has been charged in a criminal complaint with production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Agents were unable to arrest him today and a warrant remains outstanding for his arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for March 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL MORRISON, also known as “Nazzie," 26, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that CHENG LE was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for attempting to acquire ricin, postal fraud, and identity theft in relation to a terrorism...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Free program offered March 23 at Castle Clinton National Memorial.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell and Secretary Lew...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Tuesday that Reuben Nims, 52, of Little Rock, pled guilty to an Information charging him with conspiring to commit mail fraud. Nims conspired to steal money intended to feed children in low income areas during the school year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals were sentenced today in federal court in Clarksburg for drug trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
