News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: A Miami grand jury indicted thirteen people for their participation in two telephone sales room (“boiler room") fraud schemes that targeted investors throughout the nation and defrauded them out of approximately $23 million. The fraud schemes operated out of Miami Lakes, Florida, and Marina Del Ray, California.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is launching the Better Communities Alliance (BCA), a new collaborative effort among 60 local governments, philanthropies, nonprofit organizations, and leading private companies to accelerate local clean energy progress across the country. The BCA was announced today by the White House during Smart Cities Week.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: HINES, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burns District announced today plans to conduct a second bait/water trap gather of wild horses within the South Steens Herd Management Area (HMA) beginning in late October 2016. A similar bait trap gather was conducted in August 2016 in one of the northern...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington drug dealer residing in close proximity to Marshall University was sentenced today to three years and a month for a heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Derrick Linwood Thomas, 25, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin within 1,000 feet of a university.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: On Sept. 26, the White House brought together leaders from federally recognized Indian tribes to Washington, D.C., for the 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: DENVER, Colo. --- Staff from the National Park Service (NPS) are on hand at the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) annual conference Sept. 25-28. More than 7,000 geoscientists will attend the conference. NPS scientists will facilitate two symposia at the conference: A Centennial Celebration of Geology and Hydrology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management I & II, and they will also host a booth in the exhibit hall.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that CLARENCE BELL, also known as “Solo," 20, of West Haven, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, Xanax, a Schedule IV controlled substance.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 39 members and five alternate members to the United Soybean Board. All but one appointee will serve three-year terms beginning December 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 26 - State government tax revenue increased 4.8 percent, from $875.0 billion in fiscal year 2014 to $916.5 billion in 2015 ─ the fifth consecutive increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SEP 26 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Clarence Bell, also known as “Solo," 20, of West Haven, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, Xanax, a Schedule IV controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Amin Yu, 55, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and for conspiring to commit international money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The final phase of the waste removal project at Scout Lookout in Zion National Park has been rescheduled once again due to scheduling conflicts with the contracted helicopter. The current plan was to remove the waste barrels on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 but the project will be rescheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yvon Juteau, 32, a non-Indian who resides in Taos, N.M., was arraigned today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on an indictment alleging that he assaulted two Native Americans. Juteau entered a not guilty plea and was detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Amin Yu, 55, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and for conspiring to commit international money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced that on Sept. 23, 2016, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a six count indictment against seventy-two (72) individuals charged with conspiracy to possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The fifth and final defendant in an interstate shipping theft scheme that defrauded FedEx and wireless carriers of more than $500,000 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felony Child Abuse and Neglect and Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KELVIN ACOSTA pled guilty today to one count of sexual exploitation of a child. ACOSTA, who was arrested on March 29, 2016, entered his plea before United States District Judge Paul A. Crotty, and was remanded into federal custody.
