News from October 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement and backgrounder in response to the release of a Republican staff report criticizing a new joint rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers implementing the Clean Water Act...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: YORK, Neb. - Responding to a report of unsafe working conditions, federal investigators found employees at a Nebraska animal feed company exposed to the risk of grain dust explosion, electrical shock and confined space hazards, and multiple other violations of grain handling safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: BOISE - United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Assistants United States Attorney (AUSAs) Jack Haycock, Ray Patricco and Nancy Cook will lead the efforts of her Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2016, general...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JIMMY DON MCCOY, JR., age 25, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment for STEALING FIREARMS FROM A FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSED DEALER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(m) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies that provide inpatient and outpatient mental health services to juveniles was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison today for engaging in a scheme to bribe a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 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 27, 2016
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Dozens of Individuals Indicted in Multimillion-Dollar Indian Call Center Scam Targeting U.S. Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Matthew T. Martin, 32, from the Springfield area of Vermont, appeared today in federal court in Burlington to plead guilty to a series of violent robberies he committed in 2015 across Vermont and New Hampshire. Martin, who is being detained, appeared before Judge William K. Sessions III to plead guilty to a Superseding Information charging him with eight robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Tuesday’s Seizure Follows Two Other Recent Southern California Incidents that Together Yielded more than Three Tons of Marijuana Being Smuggled via Boats.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned a single count indictment charging Alexis Young, 34, of Hammond, Indiana with aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Two Broward County residents were sentenced to 12 and 11 years in prison for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving the personal identifying information of deceased individuals.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: KG Marketing and Bag Co. KG Marketing and Bag Co. 1201 S. Grandview Blvd. 1201 S. Grandview Blvd. Waukesha, Wisconsin. Waukesha, Wisconsin. Citations issued: Oct. 21, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited KG...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Leavenworth County man with producing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: A South Florida resident was arrested and charged with stealing clients’ money for his own personal benefit.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Vernal, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vernal Field Office has announced a 60-day comment period on the Enefit American Oil Utility Corridor Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Draft EIS was prepared to analyze the potential impacts of the five rights-of-way (ROW) applications filed by Enefit American Oil across BLM-administered lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: OCT 27 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Erick Delgado, 39, and his brother, Anoris Delgado, also known as “Alex," 28, both...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Monarch Fresh Produce LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced David H. Stewart (65, Holly Hill) to three years, five months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $323,636, the proceeds of his criminal conduct, and ordered the forfeiture of his interest in a parcel of real property.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of East Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 52 months’ imprisonment on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
