News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Seventeen Individuals Indicted for Respective Roles in Human Trafficking Scheme that Exploited Hundreds of Thai Women for Commercial Sex in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man who illegally sold five firearms in less than a month and agreed to sell three more during an undercover operation last year has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Lau Enterprises II Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -Cape Lookout National Seashore continues efforts to close the park based on the potential threat of Hurricane Matthew. We are making this decision to ensure that we can effectively evacuate the islands in a safe manner and secure the park to protect federal property and ensure staff...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Ryan Myrtle, 32, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brandy Lynn Matthewson, 38, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A former lab manager from Raleigh County who falsified data pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Clean Water Act, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. John Brewer, 62, of Beaver, is the second former employee of Appalachian Laboratories to be prosecuted for a federal crime involving the Clean Water Act.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT N. TRICARICO, 60, formerly of Darien, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing for than $1.2 million from an elderly client.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY GENTILE, 34, of Ansonia, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of amphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Soccer United Marketing LLC (SUM) requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Oak Lawn real estate executive was charged today with trying to hire a hit man to murder an attorney who was involved in litigation against him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: STEVENS POINT, Wis. - An Arpin contractor faces penalties of $93,532 after federal inspectors found the company risked the lives of at least two of its employees as they installed underground water, sanitary and storm sewer utilities in an unprotected 9-foot deep trench at the Stevens Point Sixth Avenue Reconstruction Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Devin Marino, 29, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment[1] with charges of cyber stalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer, wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health care information, and wrongfully disclosing individually identifiable health care information, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT CHADRONET, 38, formerly of East Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of bank robbery and admitted that he committed two bank robberies in Connecticut and one in Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an effort to prevent drug use while educating youth, the National Family (NFP), invites families and schools across America to participate in its 6th Annual National Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest. The contest, which is co-sponsored by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), will be held in conjunction...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Bassem Kuran, 23, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to ten months in prison for making false statements to Medicare through VIP Ambulance, Inc., an ambulance company that Kuran owned and which he served as President. The Honorable Gerald J. Pappert, United States District Judge, ordered that upon Kuran’s release from prison, he must serve three years of supervised release, and further ordered Kuran to pay restitution to Medicare in the total amount of $66,901.93.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
