News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an Indictment charging Aldinton Valerio and Alexis Ovalle-Lopez...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Puerto Rico Police Officers Indicted for Civil Rights Violations and Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: The three men responsible for Tony “T-Bone" Canfield’s death were sentenced to Federal Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined a number of the health law’s recent failures and said the law’s broken promises are resulting in rising premiums and fewer choices that are being felt the most by the middle class.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: On September 18 and 19, 2016, Cape Hatteras National Seashore will celebrate Deaf Awareness Week by hosting deaf awareness educational programs presented by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Outer Banks Group Superintendent David Hallac invites the public to participate in these events to learn about the issues the deaf population faces every day to honor its history and culture. All events are free of charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released a staff report titled, The OPM Data Breach: How the Government Jeopardized Our National Security for More than a Generation, chronicling the Committee’s year-long investigation into how highly personal, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland woman sentenced to three years in prison for filing false income tax returns on behalf of friends and relatives and fraudulently claiming more than $131,000, said U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Hop Hing Produces Inc., operating out of New York, alleging unlawful employment of an individual under PACA employment restrictions after being given notice by USDA that the company was not permitted to employ the individual without USDA-approval and the posting of a surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jose Alfonso Romero-Ramirez, aka “El Tio" and aka “Oscar Romero," age 51, of Los Angeles, California, and formerly of Richmond, was sentenced today to 85 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute and illegally possessing firearms.
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in the United States House of Representatives supporting of a resolution recognizing the importance of the United States-Republic of Korea-Japan trilateral relationship (H.Res.634 )...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Four Hundred Acres of Critical Habitat to be Protected.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EMANUEL COHEN, the former chief executive officer of a Florida-based wholesaler and distributor of beauty products (the “Company"), was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for orchestrating a fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty today for his role in a California-to-West Virginia methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Miguel Tafolla-Montoya, 31, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACY NICHELSON, age 42, of Metairie pled guilty today to one count of bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SALVADOR ACOSTA-SALAS, age 34, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will require permits by reservation for overnight use in the King Range Wilderness and Backcountry Management Zone of the King Range National Conservation Area beginning Jan. 9, 2017. The requirement will not affect day-use visitors or campgrounds outside the wilderness or backcountry areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two clinical psychologists pleaded guilty today for their involvement in a fraudulent psychological testing scheme that preyed upon Medicare recipients living in nursing homes throughout the Southeastern United States.
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned against an emerging plan by the Obama administration to endorse an international ban on nuclear testing at the United Nations (U.N.) without Senate approval. The committee held a hearing today to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- The Justice Department announced a proposed consent decree today with Humboldt County resolving claims that the county violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
