News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department announced the launch of “Combating Religious Discrimination Today," a new interagency community engagement initiative designed to promote religious tolerance, challenge religious discrimination and enhance enforcement of religion-based hate crimes. The Justice Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL GOTTA, 58, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of knowingly and willfully distributing an explosive material to an individual who was under 21 years of age.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its cost estimate of H.R. 4441, the “Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 2016" (AIRR Act). It determined that the Republican plan to privatize the United States air traffic control (ATC) system would increase the deficit by nearly $20 billion over ten years.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, accepted an award from the National Council of La Raza for her work on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the new law to fix No Child Left Behind. Senator...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released the following statements after Congress unanimously approved The Edward “Ted" Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015, bipartisan legislation that would help presidential candidates navigate the transition process and manage a smooth transition into the executive office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the government has formally settled a lawsuit brought by a whistle-blower alleging that one of the nation’s largest radiation oncology providers, 21st Century Oncology, has agreed to settle allegations that they performed and billed for procedures...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The former officer manager of a Louisville, Kentucky, company was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court, by District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to 18 months in prison, without the opportunity of parole, for embezzling $800,000 announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Thirty-nine defendants have pleaded guilty. NEWARK, N.J. - A family doctor practicing in Bergen County, New Jersey, was charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A North Carolina man pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke to federal drug conspiracy charges, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence tax preparer pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with filing false tax returns with the IRS resulting in over $220,000 in fraudulent refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Dewayne Gray, 31, aka Whip, and Erika Gray, 34, aka Tek, both of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to RICO conspiracy. In addition, Erika Gray pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Inhofe Raises Concerns Over Meiburg Nomination as Deputy Administrator at EPA
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that the owners and developers of 71 multifamily housing complexes in four states with more than 2,500 ground-floor units have agreed to pay $350,000 to settle claims that they violated the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act by...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Eric Hudson, 21, Keith Larke, 36, Warren Smith, 51, Anwar Hameen, 33, all of Philadelphia, PA, and Fred Rush, 34, of Lansdale, PA, were charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a bank fraud scheme in which they attempted to deposit more than $1 million worth of bogus checks, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendants are charged with conspiracy, bank fraud, and numerous counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Former Chief Executive Officers for Plain Green, the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s internet lending business, were both sentenced today to several years in prison by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls. Neal Paul Rosette, 54, of Box Elder, who served as the lending corporation’s CEO...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned Chief Tom Tidwell of the U.S. Forest Service (Service) on the priorities in the agency’s $4.9 billion FY 2017 budget request. At Tuesday’s hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Murkowski emphasized that the Service continues ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: www.justice.gov/usao/msn. OXFORD, Miss. Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, together with Andy Castro, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal enforcement program in the Southeast, announces: William Michael Manclark...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ imprisonment on his convictions of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Culloden man who assisted his parents in selling heroin from their home in 2014 and 2015 was sentenced today to five years of probation, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Shawn Paul Cremeans, 24, previously pleaded guilty in December 2015 to aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2016
News Release: YAKIMA, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation’s March 2016 Total Water Supply Available forecast for the Yakima Basin indicates that there will be a full water supply for both senior and junior water rights this coming irrigation season.
