News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Matt Etre and Salem Police Department Chief Paul Donovan today announced that Hansel German, 25, of Boston, Massachusetts, and Andy Pena, 21 of Jamaica Plain...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The CEO of Preferred Merchants LLC, a financial services company based in Napa, California, pleaded guilty yesterday to engaging in an elaborate obstruction of justice scheme to conceal millions of dollars-which were subject to a freeze order and seizure warrant-from the government using a series of offshore accounts, domestic and foreign nominee accounts, a shell company and related bank and brokerage accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Willie Brothers Jr., and Raheem Ridley, both of Wilmington, were indicted on March 11, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute over 100 grams of heroin. Brothers faces a maximum sentence of 40 years...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 260,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Taiwan during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that the following individuals were indicted on charges stemming from a drug conspiracy. All defendants are charged with Drug Conspiracy; and various defendants are charged with related crimes, including, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation continues contract negotiations with the El Dorado Irrigation District on contract terms and conditions for a long-term Warren
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to four years of probation, which includes eight months of community confinement, on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two residents of Kenner, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before Federal District Court Judge Lance M. Africk of the Eastern District of Louisiana for crimes related to the operation of their check cashing business, VJ Discount Inc., announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite for Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Former Judge Sentenced to 10 Years for Accepting Bribe During His Arkansas Court of Appeals Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the sentencing of a former Bloomington Parks Department office manager for her role in an elaborate fraud and embezzlement scheme. Judith A. Seigle, 52, Gosport, Indiana, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison by U. S. District Judge William T. Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Following a three-day trial before United States District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra, a jury convicted a Lauderhill resident for his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme which occurred in Palm Beach and Broward Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against two Soldotna men, charging them with trafficking in synthetic cannabinoids, informally known as “spice." The two men are also charged with firearms offenses, in connection with Spice trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: During the first annual Love Your Lake Community Cleanup on Saturday March 18, 71 volunteers and 29 employees removed 1,860 pounds of trash from Lake Powell's shoreline. The largest item was a mattress removed from Lone Rock Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Amber Blane Redick, 32, of Riverton, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 22, 2016, for distribution of 50 grams or less of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting. Redick was arrested in Fremont County, Wyoming. She received 24 months imprisonment...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council Oil and Gas sub-group encourages the public to submit comments regarding federal oil and gas leasing and a potential master leasing plan in western La Plata and eastern Montezuma counties by Friday, Apr. 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G.F. Peterman, III, today announced the sentencing on March 24, 2016 of two individuals in an insurance fraud scheme. The sentences were handed by Senior District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in federal court in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Division (“IRS-CI"), announced today that NISAR SAHI was sentenced today by United States District Judge Denise L. Cote to 37 months in prison for stealing government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The mastermind of a salvage yard scandal that defrauded a metal company of more than $750,000 has been sentenced. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, RICHARD M. ARNOLD SR. (a/k/a/ "Rick Arnold"), 62; RICHARD M. ARNOLD II, (a/k/a/ "Ricky Arnold"), 29; ROBERT W. ARNOLD, 26; and ROBYN R. ARNOLD, 57, all of El Reno, Oklahoma, were sentenced for conspiracy and wire fraud, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney...
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (NY-16), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a senior member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today released the following statement reacting to the indictment of a group of Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyberattack on a Westchester dam...
