News published on Federal Newswire in March 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: HOUSTON - A total of five people from three different states have all been convicted in a $6 million nonexistent commercial accounts receivable scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public nominations for open positions on its Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), which advise the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 45 days, until May 2.The BLM's RACs, composed of...

By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: HAVANA, March 21, 2016 - As part of President Obama's historic trip to Cuba to further normalization of relations, advance commercial and people-to-people ties, and express our support for human rights for all Cubans, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced several measures that will foster...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Second Conviction For Defendant Since 2008.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Larry Carl Homan, 71, of Norfolk, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for production of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced on Friday, March 18, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Boston for robbing multiple banks in 2014.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Employers name: J. Walter Miller Co., 411 East Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: GLIDDEN, Wis. - A Wisconsin wood décor and floral supplier exposed workers to toxic levels of chemicals in adhesives and paints because, federal inspectors determined, the workplace lacked adequate engineering controls needed to reduce harmful vapors.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte, North Carolina, area resident was sentenced to 41 months in prison today for his involvement in a fraudulent tax return scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: TUPELO, MS: Weather depending, the Natchez Trace Parkway plans to conduct a prescribed fire at Chickasaw Village on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The Chickasaw Village prescribed fire will help reduce hazardous fuel loadings and restore the native black prairie. The prescribed fire is located at.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Employer name: Vista Window Company LLC

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Florida Audiologist Sentenced to 94 Months in Prison in Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JAMES RODNEY SIMS, age 27, of Douglasville, Georgia, was sentenced to 2 years of probation for POSSESSION OF FIFTEEN OR MORE COUNTERFEIT ACCESS DEVICES, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1029(a)(3) and 2.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alicia Wilson, 36, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to access device fraud before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Maverick Dean Bryan, age 55, of Mineral Springs, Arkansas, appeared for arraignment today on seven counts of mailing threatening communications. The arraignment hearing was before Judge Caroline M. Craven in the United States District Court in Texarkana.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: Charges Unsealed Against Three Defendants Who Allegedly Engaged in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Transactions on Behalf of the Government of Iran and Iranian Entities As Part of a Scheme to Evade U.S. Sanctions.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: LOS ANGELES - An East Los Angeles man who oversaw a scheme that embezzled more than $8 million from an industrial launderer that provided finishing services for Citizens of Humanity, a manufacturer of high-end designer jeans, pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: “NOAA has a strong interest in both improving navigational safety and in protecting the marine environment in the heavily travelled and vibrant waters between our two countries in the Straits of Florida," said Russell Callender, Ph.D., assistant NOAA administrator for the National Ocean Service. “We welcome this agreement and the progress it represents."

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Piersha Dwan Woolridge, 37, of Atwater, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to four years and eight months in prison and ordered to pay $347,732 in restitution, for her role in a student aid fraud and identity theft scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016

News Release: MIAMI - A federal jury found Valentine Okonkwo, 54, of Orlando, Florida, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose and 10 counts of dispensing and distributing oxycodone outside the...