News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: A grand jury returned an indictment charging Yatkia Wallace, 42, of Mansfield, with one count of embezzlement in connection with health care, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Seven Brockton residents were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston with trafficking fentanyl and with firearms-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Four Assistant United States Attorneys were honored today by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department at the annual “Chief’s Awards" ceremony, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The four were presented with the “Chief’s Award for Excellence in Policing" for the federal prosecution of significant criminal cases. The ceremony was held at CMPD’s Police and Fire Training Academy.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Senate voted to approve $1.1 billion in emergency funds to combat the growing threat posed by the Zika virus. Earlier this...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Cedillo, 33, last residing in Sylmar, Calif., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Man Who Set Fire to Somali Restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime.
By EPA Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of an April 2016 hearing that examined the safety of U.S. bioresearch labs, Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday followed up with the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. The letters were signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: De’von Le’edward Walker, 21, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 30 months in federal prison for his role in the manufacturing and selling of counterfeit U.S. currency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a Schaumburg construction company intentionally underpaid his union-affiliated employees by more than $1.5 million while underfunding their pension and welfare funds by another $1 million, according to federal criminal charges filed today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a Schaumburg construction company intentionally underpaid his union-affiliated employees by more than $1.5 million while underfunding their pension and welfare funds by another $1 million, according to federal criminal charges filed today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a follow-up hearing to “Protecting Small Businesses from IRS Abuse, " where members examined how the Internal Revenue Service wrongly used its authority to seize...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Unreported Income Requires Him to Now Pay More Than $250,000 in Back Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the appointments of John W. Huber, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, and Peter F. Neronha, U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), effective immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, a federal jury in Montgomery convicted Kennon W. Whaley, 51, from Auburn, Alabama on two counts of bankruptcy fraud for concealing assets of his business from the Bankruptcy Court and his creditors, announced George Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with multiple charges of investment adviser fraud.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Valley Wide Produce Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Charged with Additional ISIL-Related Offenses.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at the full Committee markup of a resolution recognizing Singaporean independence (H.Res.374 ), a resolution providing safety and security for Iranian dissidents living...
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed execution of Warren Act contracts or exchange agreements with South-of-Delta Central Valley Project contractors within the Delta Division, San Luis Unit, and San Felipe Division to store, convey, or exchange purchased Yuba Accord water in Federal facilities, when excess capacity exists.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 18, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of $21 million to support the development of regional systems in sustainable bioenergy and biobased products, as well as education and training for the next generation of scientists that will expand ...
