News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Washington man has been charged in Alaska with 11 counts of wire fraud and eight counts of money laundering. His wife has been charged with one count of social security fraud in Washington. They were both arrested this morning in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK HARRISON was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for defrauding the United States Department of Education of over $1 million by submitting false documents in connection with his requests for financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Thursday, September 8, 2016, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Steven Douglas Rockett to 60 years in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release. Rockett, 47, was convicted by a federal jury in Portland, Oregon for producing child pornography outside...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A West Reading, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. (FPFG), a Texas-based financial services company allegedly targeted for extortionate takeover and looting by a group led by Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo S. Scarfo, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Fisheries biologists monitoring restoration of the Elwha River and ecosystem recently confirmed that adult Chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, steelhead and bull trout have all passed upstream through both the former Elwha and Glines Canyon dam sites to reach the upper Elwha River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., brothers were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute PCP.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay Over $1.69 Million in Restitution For Schemes to Defraud Employer Using Fake Vendor and Kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Washington man has been charged in Alaska with 11 counts of wire fraud and eight counts of money laundering. His wife has been charged with one count of social security fraud in Washington. They were both arrested this morning in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a senior member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Decatur, Ill., man who worked as an independent insurance agent. The indictment, returned Sept. 7, charges James P. Smith, 60, of the 5400 block of Traughber Road, with a fraud scheme that allegedly exposed clients to a potential loss of more than $250,000 from February 2011 to July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A West Reading, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. (FPFG), a Texas-based financial services company allegedly targeted for extortionate takeover and looting by a group led by Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo S. Scarfo, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: FBI’S North Shore Gang Task Force Seeks MS-13 Fugitive.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: The Hart Road Fire, started on Aug. 21, 2016, burned approximately 585 acres of federal land along the Spokane River within Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (LRNRA).Beginning at 12:01 am September 9, 2016, and remaining until further notice, the Superintendent has closed all federal land located...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Neisha Necel Williams, 36, of Los Angeles, Calif., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her cocaine trafficking conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service would like to invite the public to the first ever Tuzigoot Health and Wellness Fair on October 15th, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This FREE fair will feature health and wellness experts from all over the Verde Valley and Northern Arizona. Free massages, health screenings...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Terry Shockley, 63, to fifty-one months in prison following his April 2016 guilty plea to two counts of wire fraud. Shockley admitted to defrauding clients and investors through his now-defunct property management company, TS Property Management (TSPM).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Fourth Graders and their Families Eligible for Free Access to Public Lands and Waters Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Newton woman pleaded guilty Thursday to concealing from authorities that a convicted felon unlawfully possessed firearms that he later used in a shooting incident at Excel Industries, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Moves to Dismiss McDonnell Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Decatur, Ill., man who worked as an independent insurance agent. The indictment, returned Sept. 7, charges James P. Smith, 60, of the 5400 block of Traughber Road, with a fraud scheme that allegedly exposed clients to a potential loss of more than $250,000 from February 2011 to July 2016.
