News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - A 25-count federal indictment, unsealed today and returned by a federal Grand Jury earlier this month, charged 16 defendants with drug trafficking and firearm- related offenses. The indictment follows a two-year Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation into drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that a Johnstown, Pennsylvania, landlord has agreed to pay $30,000 to resolve allegations that he discriminated against families with children in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SPOONER, Wis. - When a Wisconsin explosive component manufacturer started a new production line at its Spooner facility, the company failed to comply with federal safety standards to protect its employees from the dangers of exposure to lead used in the production process, federal investigators say.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: FBI Investigating Detroit Public School Threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A British man who traveled to the Coachella Valley to have sex with pre-teen boys pleaded guilty today to transportation of child pornography and agreed to a 13-year prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner of a marketing and sales company who admitted paying thousands of dollars in cash bribes to a New Jersey physician in return for patient referrals to his clients was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Crystal Lake woman was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Stefani Bennett, 44, of Salmon, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to embezzlement by a bank employee, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Grand Jury in Harrisburg indicted a Dauphin County man charging him with armed bank robbery, possession of a loaded firearm during a crime of violence and being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - John Wade, 46, of Cincinnati has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling a mixture of heroin and fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a Clermont County man in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner of a marketing and sales company who admitted paying thousands of dollars in cash bribes to a New Jersey physician in return for patient referrals to his clients was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former mayor of Lawrence admitted Wednesday that he embezzled thousands of dollars from a food bank in Douglas County, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. D-N.J., today issued a statement following a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding the misclassification of EpiPen as a generic drug for nearly two decades...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Today, partners came together to ensure kids across America can express our national parks and public lands. The National Park Trust, The North Face, and the Outdoor Alliance for Kids joined the National Park Service to co-host an Every Kid in a Park event at Gateway National Recreation Area for 90 fourth...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States constituted the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in our Nation’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE SANCHEZ, also known as “Little G," 22, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Director Comey, for your appearance here today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Syrian Electronic Army Hacker Pleads Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
