News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine gave thanks today to Ohio residents for properly disposing of an estimated 18 (over 36,000 pounds) of unneeded, unwanted, or expired prescription drugs during last Saturday's National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), introduced 11 bills that will bring innovation-friendly reform to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Collectively, the bills modernize the FTC for the 21st...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZACHARY KRAMER, 22, of Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to eight months of home confinement with outpatient drug treatment, four months of imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Michael D. Tangredi, 55, of Toms River, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to one count of perjury, announced United States Attorney David Rivera. During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger, Tangredi admitted lying to a federal grand jury that had been investigating his son, Michael G. Tangredi, for conduct concerning fraudulent credit card transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738 and Nicholas W. Pilchak (619) 546-9709.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-Continue to celebrate nature through the winning art work of the Youth Arts in the Park 2016 Appalachian Spring Art Contest's extended exhibit at local National Park Service visitor centers through mid-July. Originally on display at Tamarack in April, many of these works are...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum, a/k/a “Nidal Waked," 46, of Panama, was arrested yesterday in Bogota, Colombia on a federal criminal indictment filed in United States District Court in the Southern District of Florida, charging him with participating in a conspiracy to launder money and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS - George Chad Deputee, 42, of Crow Agency, was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact of a child yesterday following a three-day jury trial. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. A date for sentencing has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former attorney in the Haddonfield, New Jersey, office of a firm specializing in toxic tort litigation was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for falsifying defendants’ names in more than 100 asbestos suits filed in New York State courts in order to increase business and his standing in the firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Corey Megill Brown, 46, the former Senior Pastor of Second African Baptist Church in Savannah, has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on 97 counts of mail fraud and wire fraud.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking member, on Thursday sent a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking information on the department’s lack of movement on the U.S.-Israel Energy Center.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with a scheme to defraud Home Depot of over $35,000.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Employer name: - Cajamarca Construction Corp., 36 Prospect Street, Apt. 2F, Elizabeth, New Jersey
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Jarrail Lamont Smith, 23, of Cleveland, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to two counts of interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of prostitution, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for finalizing a tobacco rule that will allow the agency to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah just as it does cigarettes. This rule comes seven years after passage of the Family...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Employer name: OG Plumbing LLC, 400 N. Ada St., Chicago
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Charged As Armed Career Criminal. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Ricardo Davis, 28, of Syracuse, New York, was charged in an indictment filed yesterday for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. Davis has been charged as an Armed Career Criminal because...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -Vernita M. Greenfield, a former customer services representative for the District of Columbia’s Department of Public Works, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which she accepted more than $35,000 in bribes in return for giving favorable treatment to a towing company.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - At approximately 3:45 p.m. yesterday park dispatch was notified that a man had jumped into a shallow pool at Running Eagle Falls and sustained life-threatening injuries. Park rangers arrived on the scene within minutes of receiving the call and performed CPR. ALERT, Glacier Emergency...
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced an increase to the fiscal year 2016 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for specialty sugar and the establishment of the fiscal year 2017 TRQs for raw cane and refined sugar.
