News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: A North Miami check casher was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison, after having been convicted by a federal jury, for cashing over $11 million in fraudulent tax refund checks obtained from the filing of stolen identities.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 2016-Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 106,200 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging nine defendants for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang. The superseding indictment, which was returned on November 9, 2016 and unsealed today, charges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two Winner, South Dakota, men convicted of Criminal Trespass were sentenced on Nov. 10, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ronald J. Scheu, age 48, of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton on Nov. 16, 2016, to distributing explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: A federal judge this morning sentenced a former owner of San Antonio-based Gourmet Express, LLC, a skillet meals manufacturing and distributing business, to 15 years in federal prison for his role in an estimated $5.3 million tax and wire fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Nov. 17, 2016 - Despite the cooler temperatures, fire season continues in the parks. The following is an update on ongoing fires within park boundaries.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: NOV. 17, 2016 - The majority of America’s 73.7 million children under age 18 live in families with two parents (69 percent), according to new statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau. This is compared to other types of living arrangements, such as living with grandparents or having a single parent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Chris Suhail Folad, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., and Khaled Nabil Abdel Fattah, 38, of Antioch, Tenn. were convicted today by a federal jury, after a 3-day trial, of conspiracy to commit computer access fraud and wire fraud as well as 19 individual counts of computer access fraud and 11 counts of wire fraud, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bishop Field Office and the Mammoth and Mono Lake ranger districts of the Inyo National Forest are planning to implement several prescribed fire projects for habitat improvement and hazardous fuels reduction in the upcoming fall and winter months.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler of the District of Alaska, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today that Larry Lawson, a resident of Big Lake, Alaska, was indicted in October 2016, with one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Tereso Cazares Galindo, 38, of Michigan City, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for having reentered the United States after having previously been deported following a felony conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: TULE SPRINGS FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSED FENCING PROJECT.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of MARK ARLIN HAMMERSCHMIDT, 49, and ORNELLA ANGELINA HAMMERSCHMIDT, 37, for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar tax fraud scheme. The defendants, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2015, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule updating its general industry Walking-Working Surfaces standards specific to slip, trip, and fall hazards. The rule also includes a new section under the general industry Personal Protective Equipment standards that establishes employer requirements for using personal fall protection systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Two Florida men have been ordered to serve three years in federal prison for stealing and using credit card information. Osiel Valdes-Perez, 22, and Felix Alain Delgado-Martinez, 39, both of Miami Gardens, were each sentenced yesterday, Nov. 16, for participating in a fraudulent credit...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Northern Produce/Mushrooms Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: A South Florida resident was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $187,997 in restitution for stealing housing and food assistance benefits and committing aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 61-year-old Quinlan, Texas man, who had originally received a probated sentence for negligently releasing an extremely hazardous substance into the air, has been sentenced to three months in prison to be followed by three months of home confinement, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant is One of 34 Individuals Charged as Part of Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
