News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Quincy, Ill., woman, Andrea Nicole Tate, 39, made her initial appearance in federal court last week, on Nov. 10, after a grand jury returned an indictment that charges her with distribution of heroin that resulted in death. The indictment alleges that Tate, of the 400 block of N. 7th Street, distributed and possessed with intent to distribute heroin on June 24, 2016, and that death resulted from use of the heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four defendants were sentenced today in connection with a fraudulent Orange County, California, debt relief firm, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. The defendants all worked at Nelson Gamble and Associates and Jackson Hunter Morris and Knight, companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: (ATLANTA - Walter Ray Hamilton and James Robert Jones, a/k/a Sean Jones, were sentenced for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of a house located approximately 350 feet from Chamblee Charter High School, in Chamblee, Georgia. The organization used the house in this residential neighborhood to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Event will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 at 10:00A.M., at the Manchester Boys & Girls Club, 555 Union Street, Manchester, NH 03104.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Serial Bank Robber Suspect Sought, Reward Offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington heroin dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gerald Harris, 23, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - A wood chipper and an Upstate New York employer's failure to provide safety training combined to make a 23-year-old worker's first day on the job his tragic last, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RANDY M. KILEY, SR., 63, of Slidell, a former Sergeant Major in the Louisiana Army National Guard, was charged Thursday, November 10th, with wire fraud and making false statements in furtherance of an alleged scheme to defraud the United States Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to using a two-year-old victim to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Gary Lee Ortiz, 41, of Auberry, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a handgun with an obliterated serial number, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Northwest Oregon District is seeking public comments on a recently completed Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for access improvements at Sandy Ridge Trailhead. The deadline to submit comments is December 5th, 2016 at 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Federal prosecutors today charged a former Bibb County bank president with bank fraud for issuing 31 fraudulent loans in the names of other people or businesses and using the proceeds for himself, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and the U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By Federal Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
Mission Innovation countries convened today at the UN climate change conference, COP22, in Marrakesh to discuss progress one year after its inception. Finland and the Netherlands were introduced as the latest members of this global initiative aimed at doubling clean energy research and development (R&D). Several innovation challenges were also launched to advance energy technologies that will facilitate the clean energy transition.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: When is a traffic jam not a traffic jam? When it's a quantum traffic jam, of course. Only in quantum physics can traffic be standing still and moving at the same time.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of Tuesday’s Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee hearing on “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars," several automakers will be demonstrating automated vehicle technologies from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The hearing will commence at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two pharmacists were arrested today and charged in a long-running conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense large quantities of oxycodone and other controlled substances from two pharmacies located in Medford, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A property manager has been charged in federal court with fraudulently pocketing more than $150,000 in illegal fees from a condominium association in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today advanced eight committee bills. To date, over 130 bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills and provisions have cleared the House - and that number continues to grow with Congress back in session.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROMANE ST. CHRISTOPHER McKENZIE, also known as “Wookie," “Rude" and “Rude Boy," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Brian Hartline, 52, of Collegeville, PA, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, to a term of imprisonment of 14 months and fined $50,000 for his role in a fraud conspiracy to obtain $13.5 million in public funds for NOVA Bank. On April 27, 2016, Hartline and co-defendant...
