News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Allegedly Bilked Thousands of Businesses of More Than $50 Million by Billing for Exorbitantly Priced Light Bulbs and Cleaning Products That Were Never Ordered; Authorities Ask Public for Help in Locating Missing Defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Scott M. Wickersham, age 36, of Summerville, has been sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Bank Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349, and two counts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Hollister, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Amherst man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for failing to register as a sex offender, his fifth conviction for violating his registration obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Tonia Bright (53, Tampa) to two years in federal prison for obtaining information from a protected computer for a fraudulent purpose. The Court also ordered her to forfeit $29,057 and to pay restitution totaling $166,026, which are the proceeds traceable to the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Cuban Citizen found in the United States After He Was Denied Admission Following Arson Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information on the Person or Persons Responsible for the Death of East Lee, a Former Member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Trickett Wendler Right To Try Act of 2016 on Tuesday during a meeting with ALS patients and those affected by the slow federal drug approval process.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to commit several armed robberies at restaurants in the metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The founder of the United Security and Police Officers of America (USPOA) was convicted today by a federal jury of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars in union funds for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Babulal Bera, 83, of La Palma, pleaded guilty today to making excessive campaign contributions and making campaign contributions in the name of another.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: A woman who made a false statement in an immigration petition was convicted by a jury on May 9, 2016, after a one-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On May 9, 2016, Dr. Randal Curtis Pruitt, 44, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 18 months in prison. Pruitt was also ordered to pay $478,549 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service while serving a three-year term of supervised release upon release from prison. Pruitt had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: COSHOCTON, Ohio - An Ohio ethanol production facility faces $149,800 in federal penalties after federal inspectors found multiple violations of chemical and grain-handling standards at Three Rivers Energy LLC.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Toledo...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Boston - A Malden man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to robbing the Hingham Institute for Savings Bank in October 2015.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Grab your binoculars and cameras to explore nature at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site and the Fort Moultrie unit of Fort Sumter National Monument, like never before. On Friday May 20 and Saturday, May 21 from 9AM-4PM, the public is invited to visit and work alongside birding experts to discover...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 9, 2016, David Lee Frater, 63, of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 125 months in prison followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Frater had previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge Malachy Mannion sentenced Sekou Lashley, age 36, to 132 months’ imprisonment for distributing cocaine base (crack) at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Plains Township, Pennsylvania...
