News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former chief executive officer of Absolute Capital Holdings Ltd., which had its primary office in Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca, has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors in which he will forfeit $8 million that federal prosecutors contend was derived from a fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On May 11, 2016, a Cambria County resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of making false statements on loan applications, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro today released Better Buildings Challenge partner results, announced three new focus areas in local communities, and highlighted overall signs of growth in the initiative’s reach and influence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service...
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 Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office, Park County and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will be drilling groundwater monitoring wells at the old Park County Landfill starting on May 16. The groundwater wells will establish a long-term groundwater monitoring program as required by state and federal regulations.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park and Western U.P. Health Department invite the public to join a ranger on a 1-2 mile geocaching adventure around Calumet onSaturday, May 14. Participants will learn what geocaching is, see how fun it can be, and explore historic Calumet in the process!.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Spring Valley, New York, man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for trafficking and forcing a minor into prostitution for profit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an indictment charging MST MINERALIEN SCHIFFAHRT SPEDITION UND TRANSPORT GMBH (“MST"), a German company and operator of the M/V Cornelia, with violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) by failing to maintain an accurate ship record about the disposal of oil-contaminated waste. The defendant is also charged with presenting falsified records to the U.S. Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for role in a large-scale conspiracy that distributed more than 15 kilograms of methamphetamine in St. Joseph and across a four-state region.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement today applauding the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for holding a hearing to discuss much-needed reforms to the U.S. Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two former employees of Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development in Boston, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to rent apartments at the housing development to individuals who were not qualified in exchange for cash bribes.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Griffith Park's mountain lion, P-22, has become a symbol for wildlife in the greater Los Angeles area. But he and his fellow charismatic cats that roam these mountains are just one end of the food chain. Below them is a rich and diverse array of plants and animals, from ubiquitous coyotes to elusive ringtail cats, fragrant sagebrush to the brilliantly blue Parry's phacelia wildflower.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: 50 Members of La Asociación Ñeta Prison Gang Indicted for Violating the RICO Act in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Blair County resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced today that Brenda Montgomery, 57, of Walnut Ridge, Peggy Sutton, 61, of Biggers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Jeremiah Dorai Jacob, 36, an Australian citizen, formerly from Columbia, Illinois, pled guilty to Failure to Surrender for Service of a Sentence, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. The offense carries a maximum sentence of up to ten years imprisonment; 3 years supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 mandatory special assessment. Sentencing is scheduled for September 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III the return of indictments charging Marque Amason (49) and William Soong (27, both of Fort Myers Beach, with fraud-related offenses in connection with their submission of false claims to British Petroleum (“BP") Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment, followed by 4 years’ supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A West Hartford, Conn. man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield today in connection with evading taxes on the sale of tobacco products.
