News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Owner of Patriot Computers ordered to pay full restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the October 2016 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Paul Randolph Beeks, Jr., age 58, of Mt. Airy, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud arising from a scheme to defraud one of his clients of at least $526,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Per Alftin was sentenced today to 31 months in prison, and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000, for structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Montague man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with filing false income taxes associated with his restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The United States Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Marshal Service for the District of Idaho on Wednesday night presented 14 local law enforcement officers with its “Excellence in Community Policing Awards," as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Community Policing Week. The awards recognize commitment and excelling in community policing, helping community members live lives of safety, opportunity and purpose.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will provide assistance on October 28-29, for family members who wish to visit remote cemeteries and do minor clean-up of graves of their relatives. This assistance will be provided to the park cemeteries that are not easy to access and located inside...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Nicholas Mussolini, 30, Williamsville, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Musssolini was also ordered to pay $ 1,028,782 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - Following a Tuesday morning fire at their office on Blue Mountain Road, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees from the Challis Field Office are making strides to resume business. For the next few months, the employees will operate out of the Challis Community Event Center at 411 Clinic Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Video links will be sent to hundreds of school administrators,.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that CHRISTOPHER CHAVEZ, 40, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that transported large amounts of cocaine into Connecticut. CHAVEZ also was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Last week, the committee released a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities at the FDA. Over the course of the GAO’s audit, serious concerns were raised about FDA’s network security, and through a process of collaboration, the committee worked with FDA to initiate a focused and ongoing effort to address those concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Owner of Florida Home Health Agency Convicted in Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: EL PASO - Christopher Chavez, 40, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that transported large amounts of cocaine into Connecticut. Chavez also was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Birmingham Police Department were in the nation’s capital Thursday to take part in the Justice Department’s first Community Policing Awards Ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Imported Large Quantities of Cocaine, Marijuana and Heroin from Mexico for Distribution in New Mexico and Elsewhere.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - Crews will begin construction on Phase 2 of improvements to the 13-mile scenic loop in Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area on October 12. The construction, which is scheduled to proceed into summer, will improve three parking lots and rehabilitate pavement on the entire loop road.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that the last of five Calcasieu Parish residents was sentenced Thursday to 24 months in prison for conspiring to steal yard equipment worth more than $190,000 from owners living in south central and southwest Louisiana.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after Gov. Bill Walker (I-Alaska) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, signaling the State’s nomination of offshore Arctic areas for the administration’s upcoming Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Leasing Program for 2017-2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men. The investigation will focus on whether prisoners are adequately protected from physical harm and sexual abuse at the hands of other prisoners; whether prisoners...
