News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announce the arrests of five defendants pursuant to Federal Criminal Complaints for Narcotics Conspiracy today in Sampson County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Michael Bush, 45, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of transmitting communications containing threats to injure the person of another, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and three years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -Timothy M. Longmeyer, the former Secretary of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet, who previously admitted that he solicited and accepted over $200,000 in kickbacks from a private consultant during his tenure, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches $4 Million Settlement with Wells Fargo Dealer Services for Illegally Repossessing Servicemembers’ Cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SHANNON CHRISTOPHER CEASAR, M.D., age 43, a physician and former co-owner of the now defunct Gulf South Physicians Group in Metairie, was charged today in a two count Indictment related to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and threatening to assault or murder federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Week-Long Fire Burned over 2,300 Acres of Tribal Forest Lands in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Brent See, 39, of East Palestine, with possession of unregistered firearms, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District, and Wells Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse gather on September 29 to remove up to 60 wild horses from the Tunnel Spring area of the Goshute Herd Management Area, approximately 10 miles southwest of Wendover in Elko County, due to insufficient water sources. Hay and water will be used to gather the horses. The gather could last up to one month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen, age 29, of Amityville, New York, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and other charges related to the trafficking of a 16 year-old female for prostitution in Maryland, Virginia, and New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted two Georgia men for access-device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Rebecca Gheiler (49, Miami) with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and six counts of bank fraud. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count. The indictment also notifies Gheiler that the United States is seeking a forfeiture money judgment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Took Bribes to Smuggle Contraband into State Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bart Wayne Volen, 54, of San Diego and Haiku, Hawaii, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to eight years and six months in prison for defrauding the United Auburn Indian Community, conspiring to launder monetary instruments, and filing a false tax return, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, a former El Paso Federal Credit Union (EPFCU) manager and an assistant manager have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from the financial institution which lead to the credit union’s failure announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated indictments, charged a Jefferson County man with producing child pornography and a Marshall County man with receiving and possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of bicameral Republican health care leaders are pointing to a new legal opinion issued on Obamacare’s controversial reinsurance program. The leaders urged the Comptroller General of the United States this spring to publish a legal opinion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Pleaded Guilty and Sentenced at Initial Appearance.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on news that four Republican state attorneys general have sued to halt the imminent transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Julie K. Meek, 56, of Augusta, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Och-Ziff Enters into Three-Year Deferred Prosecution Agreement; Subsidiary Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
