News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Tiffany Gordon, 32, of Norfolk, pleaded guilty today to theft of mail matter by a postal employee.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva commented on Chairman Rob Bishop’s (R-Utah) decision to delay release of a new draft of legislation addressing Puerto Rico’s $72 billion debt crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault by Strangulation, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: This afternoon, the Finance Committee will discuss the re-nominations of the Public Trustees for the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds. That sounds like a real mouthful, but for me, this issue goes back to my time leading the Gray Panthers when the Medicare guarantee and the promise of Social Security were sacrosanct.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Florida Man Indicted for Operating Sex Trafficking Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES COSTANZO, 38, of Ansonia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking prescription narcotics. He also was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Justin Longworth, 36, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 94 months in prison for the crimes of felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Following his release from prison, Longworth will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The co-owners and former owner of a payroll company in Worcester were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for defrauding the IRS and tax evasion. One of the co-owners was also sentenced for embezzling client and employee funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The co-owners and former owner of a payroll company in Worcester were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for defrauding the IRS and tax evasion. One of the co-owners was also sentenced for embezzling client and employee funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: H.R. 5063, the “Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016," would prohibit the enforcement or negotiation of any settlement agreement requiring donations to remediate harms that are not “directly and proximately" caused by a party’s unlawful conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSEPH SUDIK, 60, of North Franklin, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges related to the theft of $809,205.43 from 434 victims, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Woman Stole Money from Charitable Organization Providing Prescription Cost Help to the Poor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A South Carolina woman appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for defrauding a charitable organization providing prescription cost assistance to low-income individuals, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Nakeria Rougier Hanson, 31, of Rock Hill, S.C. entered her guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal jury convicted Marc Christopher Harmon today of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Bertram Fairries, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. -The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center announces a summer long National Park Service Centennial BioBlitz at Glacier National Park (GNP). Visitors to the park are invited to become citizen scientists by documenting wildlife sightings within GNP on the free iNaturalist app. The public may also sign up for a free account from their computer at.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U. S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South Carolina announced today that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging former North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - A former Savanah, Tennessee bank CEO has pleaded guilty in federal court to a one count information charging him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Samuel Lee Lynch (29, Temple Terrace) to life imprisonment and Reo Thomas Nance (31, Temple Terrace) to 52 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy, armed robbery, and firearms offenses in connection with five Tampa Bay area armed robberies...
