News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Steven Strang, Jr., 37, of Athens, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that LORRIE LYNN ROGERSON, age 57, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pled guilty before U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles to engaging in a wire fraud scheme to defraud the Pediatric Surgery of Louisiana (“PSL"), a group of Baton Rouge physicians who specialize in surgery on children. As a result of the scheme, Rogerson embezzled approximately $430,490 from PSL. The sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement ahead of the Philippines’ May 9 elections...
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement commending the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for receiving an “A" grade from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on its annual Small...
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) commented on today’s announcement by Senate...
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 9.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Amanda Brook Ely, the first of five defendants connected to a Lansing, Michigan area family-run tax scheme was sentenced to three years of probation and full restitution, in federal court, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. The scheme involved deceiving citizens into...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The United States today filed a civil complaint on its own behalf and for the benefit of the Pueblo of Santa Clara in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, against the city of Española, New Mexico. The complaint alleges that the city lacks valid rights-of-way for portions of its public...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, released the following statements regarding the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey’s approval of the department’s agreement with the city of Newark to reform the police department’s unconstitutional practices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Statements Regarding Court Approval of the Agreement with Newark, New Jersey, to Reform Unconstitutional Policing Practices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jose Ever Portillo-Batres, 27, of El Salvador, was sentenced to time already served since his arrest on Feb. 15, 2016, following his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously...
By USDA Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $39.3 million in loans and grants for 68 projects that will help small, rural businesses and communities in 26 states. The announcement comes as the Obama Administration celebrates the profound economic impact of American entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty for his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving approximately 1,288 debit cards containing more than $1 million in tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown sentenced Jack Holden, 76, of Eugene, Oregon, to 87 months in prison, restitution of $1,410,760, and a special assessment of $1,500 for his role in a fraudulent biodiesel scheme that spanned three continents. Holden was convicted of...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announces availability of the North Slope Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, or REA, summarizing the conditions of nearly 62 million acres of the North Slope region of Alaska. REAs gather and synthesize existing data for all the lands in an ecoregion and identify important habitats...
By USDA Newswire | May 6, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Israel during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Now Accepting Applications for FBI/Yale Future Law Enforcement Youth Academy Program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 8,853 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount was the third highest total collected statewide of the 10 previous Take-Back events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID MICHAEL WHITE, JR., a/k/a “Prince Loyalty," age 32, of New Orleans, was charged today in a three-count Indictment for offenses related to his involvement in the sex trafficking of adult women in the New Orleans area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - Michael K. Kormanik, age 54, of Kalihi, was sentenced yesterday by Senior District Judge Helen Gillmor in federal court to 20 years imprisonment, followed by supervised release for life, for transporting and possessing child pornography. As part of his federal conviction, Kormanik will be...
