News from October 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Implementation of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. The Act requires the IG to assess agency national security information technology systems that provide access to personally identifiable information (PII).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. -The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP) awarded the City of Montgomery $1,875,000 aimed at creating or protecting fifteen law enforcement positions within the Montgomery Police Department, announced...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. October 4, 2016 - The parks are scheduling their first prescribed burn of fall 2016, north of Dorst Campground, near the northern border of Sequoia National Park. This represents a change of plans for the parks, due to cooling trends and increased relative humidity bringing the area into appropriate parameters for prescribed burning, as shown by recent fuel moisture samples taken at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that, on October 4, 2016, Damiane Harris of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced before Judge Philip P. Simon, for interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Scott Anthony Orton, 57, of Puyallup, Washington, to one year and one day in prison today for transmitting interstate threats, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | October 4, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Antoine Paris Davis, age 39, a resident of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was convicted on Friday of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine and possession with intent to distribute heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Providence, Rhode Island pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Diaz Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park sees 10-fold increase in seedling density since 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that, on October 4, 2016, Damiane Harris of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced before Judge Philip P. Simon, for interstate transportation of stolen property.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Boise - Starting in early October, crews from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Boise District will begin work on the Paradigm Fuel Breaks project, a system of fuel breaks built along both sides of existing roads. Fuel breaks will eventually be put in place from Boise to Glenns Ferry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: OCT 04 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jeannette Hardy, 25, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yavapai Regional Medical Center (Yavapai), an Arizona not-for-profit community health system, has agreed to pay the United States $5.85 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by misreporting data about the hours worked by its employees on its annual cost reports, which improperly inflated the amount of money it received from the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - Marc Hubbard, age 48, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court to one count of wire fraud, for defrauding the University of Hawaii and one of its supporters of $250,000 in relation to a concert involving the recording artist Stevie Wonder that never took place. According to court documents, the fraudulent scheme ran from in or about March 2012 through on or about Oct. 3, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Hazleton man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, to trafficking in large quantities of heroin in January 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., found probable cause yesterday morning to support a criminal complaint charging Edwin Josue Torres, 24, of Sherman Oaks, Calif., with a methamphetamine trafficking offense. Torres was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bradley J. Hollenbeck, 36, of Andover, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Charles McGonigal Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence Division for the New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue officer pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina to one count of tax evasion and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Principal...
