News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alejandro Munoz Galvan, 39, of Lathrop, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Brian Dewayne Johnson, 38, of Evansville, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Nov. 10, 2016, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Johnson was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 80 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE Tenn., Nov. 10, 2016 - George Ivory aka GI, 27, and Anthony Laquesha Coleman aka Scrappy, 30, both of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to gun and drug offenses which they committed in the area of 16th Avenue North and Buchanan Street in North Nashville, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) oversees approximately 800 waterfront facilities that, among other activities, transfer hazardous liquids between marine vessels and land-based pipelines, tanks or vehicles. These “maritime bulk liquid transfers" increasingly rely on computers to operate valves and pumps, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lee Altmann, 67, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced to twelve months and one day in prison for bank fraud, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Norwood, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to engaging in a scheme to sell livestock and farm equipment that was held as collateral by the Farm Service Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: “Ahmad Khan Rahami, the alleged Chelsea bomber, was brought today to Manhattan to face terrorism charges. Allegedly driven by a commitment to violent jihad, Rahami planted bombs in the heart of Manhattan and in New Jersey. One of the bombs exploded on a Saturday evening in Chelsea, injuring over 30 people...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -Benjamin Harold Hall, 35, of Jonesborough, Tenn., was sentenced on Nov. 10, 2016, by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 42 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief executive of Chicago’s first red-light camera vendor was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison and over $2 million in restitution for paying bribes to a city official to help procure the contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID MICHAEL WHITE, JR., a/k/a “Prince Loyalty," age 33, of New Orleans pled guilty today to two counts of use of an interstate facility to promote prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging former U.S. Representative Aaron Schock with allegedly defrauding the federal government and his campaign committees and covering it up with false and fraudulent statements, claims and invoices.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Vale, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vale District planning prescribed burns throughout the fall and winter in Malheur and Baker Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley would like to honor the men and women of the Western District of Louisiana and their family members who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: This month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) observes the 20th anniversary of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), along with World Antibiotic Awareness Week and Get Smart About Antibiotics Week. In the United States, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections occur annually in nearly two million people causing more than 23,000 deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Tennessee couple were indicted by a federal grand jury on November 9, 2016, for fraudulently obtaining $98,165 in veterans’ unemployment compensation benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Nermin Awad El-Hadik, 40-year-old owner of Hope Pharmacy, Inc. in Houston, faces up to five years in federal prison and has agreed to pay more than $5 million restitution after pleading guilty to paying kickbacks in a health care fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Nermin Awad El-Hadik, 40-year-old owner of Hope Pharmacy, Inc. in Houston, faces up to five years in federal prison and has agreed to pay more than $5 million restitution after pleading guilty to paying kickbacks in a health care fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health's OSH Professionals Pipeline Work Group. The meeting will be Nov. 15 in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Lance Lightner, 24, was sentenced on Tuesday to 272 months in prison by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood following his guilty pleas to charges of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Lightner’s prison term will be followed by a life term of supervised release. Lightner will also be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Lightner pleaded guilty to the offenses on May 2, 2016.
