News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney David Rivera announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA’s) Henry Leventis and Steve Jordan will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2016, general elections. AUSA’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal prosecutor will be on duty during election day to respond to complaints of possible election fraud and voting rights violations in Kansas, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft, age 30, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of three counts of Possession of Unregistered Firearms as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: Des Moines, IA - On Oct. 21, 2016, Dorothy L. Dillinger, 61, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 60 months in prison for mail fraud and malicious use of fire, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Dillinger was ordered to serve three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering organization that imported Canadian marijuana and MDMA, the club drug also known as “ecstasy" or “mollie," into the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The head a Massachusetts-based pyramid scheme that was disguised as an internet telecom company, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to multiple counts of wire fraud and conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that BUDDY LYNN VISSER, age 56, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: Defendants Lured Multiple Victims Through OfferUp Website.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmalee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement regarding Obamacare premium increases for 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce today sentenced Kelton Snyder, 24, of Decatur, Ill., to life in prison for conspiring to murder a witness, Paige Mars, also of Decatur, in April 2015. Under federal statute, there is no parole or early release for a defendant serving a life sentence for conspiracy to murder a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former loan officer at Broadway Federal Bank who took more than $350,000 in kickbacks in exchange for considering mortgage applications submitted by churches in relation to a fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $4.2 million was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Life Care Centers of America Inc. (Life Care) and its owner, Forrest L. Preston, have agreed to pay $145 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that Life Care violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to submit false claims to Medicare...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2017 Food for Progress Program. Food for Progress helps developing countries and emerging democracies modernize and strengthen their agricultural sectors. U.S. agricultural commodities donated to recipient countries are sold on...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former wedding photographer in Raymore, Mo., has been indicted by a federal grand jury as part of a federal investigation into a fraud scheme to dupe dozens of women into having sex - which he recorded - under the guise they were rehearsing for a pornography movie.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Homayoon Daneshvar, 63, a resident of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to charges related to a $1.9 million investment fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: Cottonwood, ID - The Bureau of Land Management’s Cottonwood Field Office will hold an open house at their newly constructed office building on Monday, Nov. 7. The public is invited to stop by and tour the new office from 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating an hour, a federal jury of four men and eight women found siblings James and Janna Nassida guilty of two counts of Bank Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Antawan Hudson (31, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors. On Sept. 28, 2016, Hudson’s brother, Maurice Williams (26, Tampa), was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors. Hudson pleaded guilty on the first day of trial and a federal jury found Williams guilty on May 20, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: “During August 2016, the Natchez Trace Parkway experienced an increase in the number of recreational visits over the 2015 figures," stated Superintendent Mary Risser. “This year, 489,367 visitors used the Parkway during September 2016 compared to 476,061 who were counted in 2015.".
