News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Spence II was sentenced yesterday to ten years in prison for possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Angelina Kurtz, 20, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery and making a false statement to the FBI, was sentenced to time served, six months of home detention with an ankle bracelet, two years supervised release, and ordered to pay $543.00 to Key Bank in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who came to be in possession of firearms stolen from a local home last summer, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darrell Ray Trammell, 66, of Belen, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Trammell will be on supervised release for three years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Marcos Arana, 44, of Reading, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Feb. 29, 2016, Arana, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about September 5, 2000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Alhassane Ould Mohamed, also known as “Cheibani," a citizen of Mali, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to conspiring to murder a United States diplomat stationed in Niamey, Niger, in December 2000.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded an $8.6 million contract for construction of the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District’s regulating reservoir on behalf of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program. The contract was awarded to Kissner General Contractors, Inc. from Cedaredge, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Marc Roy Ferry, 35, of Downingtown, PA, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering in connection with a telemarketing scheme that bilked tens of thousands of senior citizens out of more than $13 million. U.S. District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. scheduled a sentencing hearing for June 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Last of Five Defendants Pleads Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Medicare Fraud Scheme involving Detroit-Area Home Health Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Penni Enama, age 50, of Lewes, Delaware, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Gregory M. Sleet, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to 24 months in prison, and full restitution. The defendant pleaded guilty to violations of wire fraud and tax evasion, in December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On Thursday, March 24, 2016, Shawki Thomas, 25, pleaded.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jon DiBernardo, 51, of Lewiston, NY, who was convicted of tax evasion, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) today issued the following joint statement in response to the Department of Labor’s final silica rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Lucilious J. Ward, age 65, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 26 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock for failure to account for and pay over the employment taxes withheld from his employees’ paychecks and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Suit Alleges Defendants Defrauded Medicare and TennCare of Over $1 Million While Operating Four Pain Clinics.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Department of Labor’s announcement of a final, updated rule on workers’ exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Dear Dr. Frieden: I write to request information about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ongoing investigation of an outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis in Wisconsin. I understand the CDC is working with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to investigate the source of...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Superintendent David Hallac announced today that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore camping season will be expanded for 2016. All four campgrounds, Oregon Inlet, Cape Point, Frisco, and Ocracoke Campgrounds will be open April 15, 2016 through Nov. 28, 2016.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on World Tuberculosis Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The former legal guardian for his cognitively disabled cousin, pled guilty for stealing more than $570,000 in annuity payments that were intended for the cousin’s care. Michael R. Braun, 67, pled guilty to wire fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown, and admitted committing the theft for approximately 12 years. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 15, 2016.
