News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyron S. Jackson, age 28, of Rensselaer, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing a single bullet.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, is hosting a free webinar entitled "Energy and Economic Success Studies" on Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nicholas W. Pilchak (619) 546-9709 and C. Seth Askins (619) 546-6692.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Fundamental constants are physical quantities that are universal in nature. For example, the speed of light in vacuum and the charge of a single electron are the same everywhere in the universe. That is why scientists would like to use invariant quantities of nature to define the seven base measurement units of the International System of Units (SI), or the modern metric system, rather than to rely on measurements of physical artifacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Correctional Officer Stephen Wise, age 34, of Pocomoke, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to his participation in a racketeering conspiracy operating at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland. Wise also pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation, deprivation of rights under color of law, for participating in the stabbing of an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: (GREENVILLE, Tenn. - Marco Bobo, 39, of Forrest City, Arkansas was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 292 months in federal prison. Upon his release from prison he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Patrick J. Bumatay (619) 546-8450.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAMES PUCKETT, age 46, of Livingston, Texas, pled guilty today to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to keep the wild horses and their habitat in northwestern Colorado’s Sand Wash Herd Management Area healthy using a technique called bait trapping is progressing well.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The Safety Council of Northwest Ohio. The Safety Council of Northwest Ohio. From left; Dennis McMickens, president and CEO of Safety Council...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Curecanti Field Office announced today that the East Portal Road located east of Montrose, Colorado, is closed for the winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ambulai R. Sheku, 37, of Providence, a former Senior Employment Interviewer with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT), pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to conspiring to commit mail fraud, theft of government funds and accessing a protected computer to commit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an indictment charging WALLACE DAVID GREGERSON, 65, for operating an embezzlement scheme to defraud his employees and steal more than $755,000 from their pension plans.GREGERSON made an initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Mayeron in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Rodney Vincent Ortiz and Vincent Rudy Ortiz (collectively, the defendants) pleaded guilty today in federal court today for their respective roles in the March 21, 2015, drug related shooting and murder on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Humboldt County, Calif., announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $750,000 civil settlement yesterday with CleanSlate Centers, Inc. and Total Wellness Centers, LLC d/b/a CleanSlate, to resolve allegations that the two companies, which together operate opioid addiction treatment centers in Massachusetts and other states, improperly prescribed buprenorphine (Suboxone®) for opioid addiction treatment and improperly billed Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Paul Carter, 46, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Wisconsin late yesterday to eight counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Leo A. Kronert, Jr., 66, of Frewsburg, NY, pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Pete Valdez, 44, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 87 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on a sexual abuse charge. Valdez will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a series of embezzlement schemes totaling more than $1.5 million.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Release Date: 22 November 2016. Contacts: Jody Mays jody_mays@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 115. NR16-08. Temporary Closure of Curatorial Building and Collections at Andersonville National Historic Site. The Curatorial Building, including museum collections and National Cemetery administrative office...
