News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two Rockford men were arrested today on federal drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Arlington, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - The last of eight defendants guilty of distributing heroin, anabolic steroids and other drugs in central and southern Ohio has been sentenced in U.S. District Court, capping a two-year investigation by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Taney County, Mo., business owner has been sentenced in federal court for failing to pay over more than $500,000 in taxes he withheld from his employees’ paychecks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 17, 2016, Ismary Diaz, 56, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment. Diaz had previously pleaded guilty to willful failure to collect or pay tax and failure to pay minimum wage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Former CEO Sentenced for Bribery and Fraud Scheme Involving Red Light Camera Contracts in Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Following a seven-day trial before United States District Court Judge Donald L. Graham, a jury convicted three defendants for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a $1,025,000 civil settlement with First American Mortgage Trust, d/b/a NXTLoan.com, a small mortgage lender based in Brighton, Mass., and its founder and CEO, Barry S. Polack, in connection with allegations that they submitted false insurance claims on mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Calif. -- Park officials are requesting the public's help with information regarding a missing hiker. On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, park dispatch was notified of an overdue hiker visiting the wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park. Robert "Bob" Woodie, a 74-year-old from Manhattan Beach, CA, was supposed to return from a backpacking trip on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted Joann Wingate on Sept. 28, 2016, for wire fraud, submitting false documents, and aggravated identity theft as part of a scheme to defraud carried out between 2012 and 2014. The Indictment was unsealed following the arrest of Wingate by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Joshua Starr, 30, formerly an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal weapon possession charges, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a term of 18 months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to Starr’s current prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewellurgedthe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve the destruction of four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: NEW GLARUS, Wis. - After five employees became ill from carbon monoxide exposure as they renovated a New Glarus nursing home, federal safety inspectors responding to the scene found their employer also exposed the workers to asbestos hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two Rockford men were arrested today on federal drug trafficking charges. QUINCY L. ATMORE (also known as "Q"), 44, and MAURICE D. NEAL (also known as "Moe"), 34, both of Rockford, Ill., were charged in an eight count indictment on Sept. 13, 2016, by a federal grand jury in Rockford, Ill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Florence, South Carolina------Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jamal Antwan Lewis, 30, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to 262 months’ imprisonment, followed by a term of five years’ supervised release. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS KAPUSTA, 63, of Westbury, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to one year of probation for killing red-tailed hawks and Cooper’s hawks. Judge Chatigny also ordered KAPUSTA to pay a $5,500 fine and perform 90 hours of community service at a local animal shelter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chicago woman was sentenced today to five years of probation, with the first eight months to be served on home confinement, for credit card fraud, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Crystal Merritt, 29, previously entered her guilty plea to possession of 15 or more counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment here Wednesday charging three southwest Kansas men with conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants from Somalia live and worship, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
