News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a Lawrence drug trafficking organization that imported fentanyl, heroin and cocaine from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere, into Massachusetts and the northeast was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: OCT 26 - CONCORD, N.H. - 20 individuals recently were indicted in federal court in Concord in connection with their participation in heroin trafficking activities. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: A West Palm Beach, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Valley Forge National Historical Park will conduct lethal removal of white-tailed deer as part of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement between November 2016 and March 2017. The plan addresses the over-browsing of tree and shrub seedlings, ferns, and wildflowers by a deer...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: Sharif Gray, 25 of Easton, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with one count of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and one count of convicted felon in possession of a firearm, in violation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Northampton County District Attorney John M. Morganelli.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the final Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment evaluating if Reclamation will provide partial funding to the North Fork Water Conservancy District to make repairs to the Paonia Dam intake structure and bulkhead, part of the Paonia Project located near Paonia, Colo. Repairs are expected to begin in September 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2016
News Release: A West Palm Beach, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: In Alpine today, federal authorities arrested 59-year-old Karl Henry Peterson for allegedly setting the U.S. Post Office in Alpine ablaze last week announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Investigation Service, Houston Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $1,356,071 to the University of California San Diego to develop new capabilities to better enable cyber security researchers to measure the Internet’s vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 25, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $300 million to help hundreds of small businesses across the country save money on their energy costs by adopting renewable sources or implementing more ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: An owner of several Reno, Nevada landscaping and rock hauling businesses was sentenced yesterday to 10 months in prison for failure to pay over employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: In anticipation of the upcoming general elections, the Justice Department today provided information about its efforts, through the Civil Rights Division and Criminal Division, to ensure that all qualified voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots and have their votes counted free of discrimination, intimidation or fraud in the election process.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: A former senior employee of the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) pleaded guilty to making false statements in several disclosure forms to conceal approximately $300,000 of income that he received from an association that received grants and cooperative agreements from the FWS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: Best Choice Home Health Care Agency Inc. (Best Choice) and its owner, Reginald King, have agreed to pay $1.8 million to resolve allegations that Best Choice and King violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks for the referral of Medicaid-covered patients for home and community-based healthcare ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: Maintained Double Set of Books to Conceal $1.5 Million and Evade $650,000 in Taxes Three family members who operated Portland, Oregon area strip clubs were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: A leader of the Vice Lords street gang pleaded guilty today for his role in the May 7, 2015, shooting of four members of a family with an AK-47 in Detroit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: Two German shipping companies that owned and operated the Motor Vessel (M/V) Nils B, pleaded guilty today to an environmental crime in federal court in San Diego before the Honorable Jan M. Adler, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden and United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the approval of fee schedules, effective Jan. 3, 2017, for payment services the Federal Reserve Banks provide to depository institutions (priced services).
By Fed Newswire | Oct 25, 2016
News Release: The 160-member task force convened by the Federal Reserve to advance the safety, security and resiliency of the national payment system is asking the industry for comments on its efforts to enhance payment identity management, data protection, and information sharing related to payments risk and fraud.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 25, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
