News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of two education-services companies admitted in federal court today that he offered bribes and kickbacks to former Chicago Public Schools chief BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT in exchange for obtaining a $2.09 million contract to train principals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: A Belle Glade man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Cordera Hill (27, Tampa), Anthonio Miller (25, Tampa), and Rashad Barr (24, St. Petersburg) with one count of conspiracy and nine counts of offering to pay and paying kickbacks in connection with a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: HELENA - Martin Reap, 25, of Deer Lodge, Montana, was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment, five years’ supervised release, and a $100 special assessment by United States District Court Judge Sam Haddon on Tuesday, October, 2016 for accepting bribes while working as a correctional officer at the Montana State Prison. The charge stemmed from a scheme whereby Reap smuggled contraband-including controlled substances and tobacco-to inmates at the prison in exchange for bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Cordera Hill (27, Tampa), Anthonio Miller (25, Tampa), and Rashad Barr (24, St. Petersburg) with one count of conspiracy and nine counts of offering to pay and paying kickbacks in connection with a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Thanousone Volarat, 36, of Fresno, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Dale A. Drozd to six years and six months in prison for conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana, money laundering, and escaping from the Fresno County Jail, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Had proper precautions been taken, a 34-year-old tree trimmer would not have been fatally electrocuted when an aluminum pole saw made contact with overhead power lines, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Cross Country Operation X Recovers 82 Children from Being Trafficked for Sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court for enticing an 18-year-old woman across state lines for prostitution, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: OCT 18 - BOSTON - This weekend DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday October 22 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 566 collection...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, a federal grand jury returned two indictments charging Kioni Dogan, 36, of Las Vegas and formerly of Stockton, with a total of 21 fraud counts related to claims for unemployment benefits and tax refunds, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Big Bend National Park is closing additional backcountry campsites following bear encounters by campers in a variety of campsites across the park's High Chisos Trail network.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 20-year-old Maine resident pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting a Cyber Security Summit at the USC Radisson Hotel today in Los Angeles. The event, which is part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, is being held in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the University of Southern California, the Lares Institute, and the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Indictment Charges Scheme to Defraud IRS with Stolen Identities.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: OCT. 18, 2016 - Today, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that it will stop plans to test field operations in Puerto Rico, the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota, and the Colville Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land in Washington state in 2017. Instead, we will consider including these sites in our 2018 End-to-End Census Test.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court for enticing an 18-year-old woman across state lines for prostitution, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Thomas W. Almberg, 50, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting a Cyber Security Summit at the USC Radisson Hotel today in Los Angeles. The event, which is part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, is being held in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the University of Southern California, the Lares Institute, and the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance.
