News from May 2016
By DOL Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will meet this week to examine the activities of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), as well as to discuss ways to promote safe workplaces through effective and responsible Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping standards. Both hearings will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - - Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, joined by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, today announced that the father and girlfriend of a 36- year-old Queens man...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with another man who devised a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kan., Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Guadalupe Trevino Jr., 43, and Guadalupe Trevino III, 24, both of Edinburg, pleaded guilty Aug. 28, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Visitors are advised that severe traffic congestion is expected and will result in delays getting into and moving about the park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - The United States Attorney's Office announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging James Clay Waller II with Interstate Domestic Violence in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2261(a)(1). The offense of Interstate Domestic Violence was enacted by Congress in 1994 as part of the Violence Against Women Act. A violation of the Act includes a possible prison sentence up to life imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park staff invite you to two special programs this Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29 at 7 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. Commemorate one hundred years of the National Park Service and honor those who serve.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a former Anchorage resident and former municipal prosecutor was sentenced to 160 months in prison for perpetrating a massive wire fraud and money laundering scheme encompassing $52 million. This is the largest wire fraud and money laundering conviction by amount ever prosecuted in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green of the Middle District of Louisiana announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment against five members of a heroin trafficking network operating in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans. As detailed below, the indictment charges the defendants with serious drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore - Former Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Captain Scott Raymond Beard, 46, of Bend, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to four felony offenses related to an embezzlement scheme where he stole $205,000 in taxpayer funds and laundered some of the tainted cash. The government alleges Beard laundered...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 31-year-old Mexican citizen residing in Pharr has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and conspiring to export defense articles to Mexico without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Abraham Benavides-Cira pleaded guilty July 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. was charged today with threatening to kill the President of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOL Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Had his employer properly created a work zone, a passing car on Philadelphia's 63rd Street might not have struck and killed a 27-year-old plumber working to repair an underground leak on a mid-November night in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Allegedly Used Cards Re-encoded with Stolen Credit/Debit Card Numbers to Buy Merchandise at Army and Air Force Exchange Service Stores and Elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Suzan Harbinson, a 52-year-old resident of Goffstown, New Hampshire, and an owner of ATA Martial Arts of Southern New Hampshire, LLC, in Bedford, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing more than $1 million, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Complaint Seeks Forfeiture Of Medical Clinic, Multiple Residences, Bank Accounts And Luxury Vehicles Traced To Ill-Gotten Gains Of Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa joins community leaders in a special day celebrating Law Day 2016. The theme, “Mighty Times: The Children’s March," will highlight how youth can be catalysts for positive social change. The connection between historical...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Scott Beard admits he embezzled $205,000 in law enforcement funds.
