News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Malcolm Xavier Green, age 24, of Temple Hills, Maryland, today to 154 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery conspiracy, bank robbery, armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in relation to a bank robbery. Judge Bennett also ordered Green to pay restitution of $10,593.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Five U.S. Postal carriers were charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana after helping arrange shipments of marijuana shipped via the U.S. mail and gave them to another drug dealer, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Superintendent Randy King invites the public to a special event on Thursday, June 2, to mark the first day of issue and the formal unveiling of a new United States postage stamp that pays tribute to Mount Rainier National Park. This stamp is part of the new National Parks Forever series issued in celebration of the National Park Service's Centennial. Park entrance fees will be waived for all visitors for the day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester nurse was indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with stealing painkillers from the nursing home where she worked, and then attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, AK -A day of fishing ended tragically for six when their small boat capsized in Glacier Bay, Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Marion man was sentenced today in connection with illegally possessing a revolver, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A California man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to wire fraud. According to the written plea agreement, TRAVIS OLIVER, 39, admitted to defrauding investors by making false representations regarding their investments in Electus Asset Holdings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Fred Buenrostro, the former Chief Executive Officer of the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for corruption and fraud charges stemming from a conspiracy to trade official acts for cash and benefits, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Eugene Monsanto, Jr., 40, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Monsanto was released on an unsecured $10,000 bond and to the third-party custody of his mother pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former bank manager was sentenced on Friday, May 27, 2016 in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme in Dorchester.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of STEVEN MCCLATCHEY, a director at an investment bank in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Marion man was sentenced today in connection with illegally possessing a revolver, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of a nearly yearlong effort to obtain information regarding the source of funding for the Basic Health Program, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The committees...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Superintendent David Vela and his staff will host a small event to celebrate the opening of the 1.25 mile multi-use pathway connection between Moose Junction and Antelope Flats Road in Grand Teton National Park. The celebration will take place at the Blacktail Butte Parking Area, which is also known as the "Practice Rocks," at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, 2016. The event is open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jason Daigle, age 39, of Nelson, New Hampshire has been sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph A. DiClerico to 87 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Edgar Alexander Gomez, 41, and Jennifer Grace Barthel, 36, both of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Gomez additionally pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CALIF.-Death Valley National Park invites artists and photographers to participate in an art contest for the Hike Death Valley program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors today filed a civil asset forfeiture lawsuit and an application that, if approved, would allow the seizure of the proceeds of two life insurance policies worth a total of $275,000 held by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, announced U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Tony Michael Spencer Admits to Viewing Child Pornography, Possessing a Sawed-off Shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A California man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to wire fraud. According to the written plea agreement, TRAVIS OLIVER, 39, admitted to defrauding investors by making false representations regarding their investments in Electus Asset Holdings.
