News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jerry Rolon-Alvarez, 37, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man was charged today with kidnapping for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a woman he met online.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the publication of a collaborative strategic plan to continue accelerating the development of offshore wind energy in the United States, the National Offshore Wind Strategy: Facilitating the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Interior and the state of Ohio announced today that Rutgers Organics Corporation (Rutgers) has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Nease Chemical Superfund Site (site) near Salem, Ohio, estimated to cost $18.75...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “An Examination of Federal Mental Health Parity Laws and Regulations":
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Forced His Way Into Victim's Apartment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Cobb County Serial Armed Bank Robber Hits Johns Creek Bank.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in observance of the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “An Examination of Federal Mental Health Parity Laws and Regulations":
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the facility have paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations that they participated in a scheme to improperly transfer patients recruited from the “Skid Row" district to a hospital for medically unnecessary services, and then transfer the patients from the hospital to the nursing home for medically unnecessary stays.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a Federal Grand Jury has returned a 46-count superseding indictment against six individuals charging approximately $13,655,094 in Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Jonathan Shane Culbreth, 20, was charged with arson yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia. According to the Indictment, Culbreth maliciously damaged and destroyed a building at 102-118 West Barnard Street in Glennville by starting a fire on June 5, 2016. The fire blazed through several downtown businesses and required the efforts of nearly a dozen different agencies to suppress over the course of several hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Dewayne Gray, 32, aka Whip, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - With guilty pleas this week by a leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC), the three lead defendants in the largest racketeering case currently pending in Los Angeles have now pleaded guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: West Valley City, Utah- With the start of hunting season and hot, dry conditions, fire officials at the BLM West Desert District remind the public of current fire restrictions. Prohibited acts include: Campfires outside of improved campgrounds or picnic areas, smoking except in a vehicle or area cleared...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Republican and Democrat members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce introduced the Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act (H.R. 5963). Sponsored by Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), the legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act to help state and local leaders better serve at-risk youth and juvenile offenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with the kidnapping resulting in death of a man whose body was discovered alongside the road earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Christopher George White, age 37, of McCormick, South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to six counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Firewood and post and pole permits for the Muddy Mountain from the Bureau of Land Management Casper Field Office will no longer be available this summer due to wood availability.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Raymond VanBuskirk, 44, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
