News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that John D. Harrison, Jr., age 53, Henry A. Dorn, age 63, Kevin Dempsey, age 45, and C. Jody Hazel, age 42, all of Greenwood, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a violation...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting public comments on an Invasive Plant Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) for 15 national parks in the greater Washington D.C. region through June 9, 2016. Comments are acceptedonline or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A West New York, New Jersey, man who fraudulently obtained a federally insured mortgage for a West New York rental property today admitted intentionally failing to make loan payments while using $149,000 in rental income from the property for personal expenses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Eon L. Menckeberg, 55, of Chipley, Florida, was sentenced today to two years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $268,135.10 in restitution to Northwest Florida Community Hospital and $122,184.38 in restitution to Jackson County Hospital. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On May 9, 2016, Douglas Lawrence Bedell, Jr., 31, of Dilkon, Arizona, a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 108 months’ imprisonment. Bedell had previously pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 7th Street Gang associate Joseph Whitely, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Albuquerque Police Arrest Fugitive Wanted in Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico Prison Gang Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) rejected a permit application for the Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point in Washington proposed by Pacific International Holdings, LLC. USACE cited interference with the Lummi Nation’s treaty fishing rights as a method of circumventing the private company’s efforts to prove otherwise through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - On May 4, 2016, a federal grand jury issued an indictment charging Brandon Kie, 30, of Endicott, New York, of receiving and possessing child pornography on a computer, announced by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - On National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day held on April 30, 2016, the New Orleans Field (NOFD) and its community law enforcement partners collected 35,993 - pounds of unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs at 378 collection sites throughout the division. The amounts collected...
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the University of North Dakota (UND) announced today a three-year cooperative research and development agreement designed to explore the uses of unmanned aerial technology as well as mitigations for possible misuse.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Robert Griffin will deliver keynote remarks at Internet of Things (IoT) World. Dr. Griffin will discuss how integrated IoT platforms and sensors reshape our security landscape with increased connectivity and real-time data and other information sharing.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 9, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the joint investment of $10 million towards research that will drive more efficient biofuels production and agricultural feedstock improvements.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: MANCHESTER, N.H., May 9, 2016 - In January 2016, President Obama tapped Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to lead an interagency federal effort focused on the heroin and prescription opioid crisis. As Secretary of Agriculture and Chair of the White House Rural Council, Secretary Vilsack understands the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Fraudsters Allegedly Scammed Victims Out of More Than $180 Million The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered a consent decree on Friday that permanently barred eight individuals and entities from operating an alleged international multi-million dollar mail-fraud scheme in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) today released a grant solicitation launching the new Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Program (Tribal Jurisdiction Program). This new program was authorized in the Violence Against ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: A Houston, Texas, man pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston to one count of theft of public money, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today that the Justice Department has filed a complaint against the state of North Carolina, the University of North Carolina (UNC) and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) alleging that they are discriminating against transgender individuals ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for calling two mosques in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to firebomb them and shoot their worshippers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: A California man was convicted late Friday by a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
