News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shannon Lamont Jackson, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today to a federal heroin trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Jackson will be sentenced to 77 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Edward Joseph Matish III, 25, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of accessing with intent to view child pornography involving a prepubescent minor.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee have long been concerned about the Internal Revenue Service’s failure to properly preserve its electronic records and implement systems to search for and produce records in response to litigation and congressional...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ELKO, Nev.- The California Trail Interpretive Center recently benefited from a local Eagle Scout project led by Life Scout, Mitchell Martin of Troop 261, Carlin, NV. Martin (16) began working on his project in August and after months of coordination with Ranger Alex Rose at the Trail Center the hiking trial and grounds maintenance project took place on Saturday, October 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Omnicare Inc., a national long-term care pharmacy, will pay a combined $2.24 million to resolve federal and state False Claims Act allegations that it improperly billed federal and state health care programs for prescription drugs that were dispensed to patients in skilled nursing and other institutional care facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a grand jury sitting in Burlington has returned a five count Superseding Indictment against five people relating to the arson that occurred in Northfield on Dec. 14, 2015. According to the Superseding Indictment, Howard ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, on a charge of Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: DETROIT - DEA reprises this weekend one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, October 22nd, 2016, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their unused, unwanted prescription medications at one of 4,700 collection sites nationwide, and over 130 sites in Michigan, operated by 3,800 local law enforcement agencies and other community partners. The service is free of charge, no questions asked.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: FBI Newark Announces Results of Operation Cross Country X.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced William Frederick Cornish, age 52, of Abingdon, Maryland, today to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Six members of the international street gang “Mara Salvatrucha" (also known as MS-13) were each sentenced to over five years in prison for various racketeering crimes including extortion, drug distribution, and conspiracy to commit murder, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced George Jack Smith, age 29, of Burtonsville, Maryland, today to 22 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon; and using, carrying and discharging a weapon in connection with drug trafficking. A federal jury convicted Smith of those charges on December 7, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a new partnership between the DHS Blue Campaign, the Department’s unified effort to combat human trafficking, and Cullman County, Alabama, aimed at raising public awareness about human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Three Others Previously Sentenced to Prison for Illicit Activity on Child Pornography Website Based on Tor Network Two members and administrators of a highly sophisticated, global enterprise dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children were sentenced to prison, announced Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Two Wayne County, West Virginia business owners pleaded guilty today to federal employment tax charges, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Carol A. Casto for the Southern District of West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Jedediah Stout, 32, of Joplin, Missouri, was sentenced today in the Western District of Missouri to 63 months in prison for setting fire to the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque as well as for two attempted arsons of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Joplin, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department filed a statement of interest today arguing that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) requires that landlords who consider criminal records in evaluating prospective tenants do not use overly broad generalizations that disproportionately disqualify people based on a legally protected characteristic, such as race or national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Today, a federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida permanently barred Renel Herard, individually and doing business as Herard Tax Services and Herard Security & Training Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others. In addition to enjoining Herard from preparing, filing or assisting in the preparation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Two former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officers were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed today with drug conspiracy, weapons offenses, robbery, obstruction of justice and falsification of records in federal investigations. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings for August 29 and Sept. 19, 2016.
