News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - James R.J. Scheltema, 56, of Pensacola, made an initial appearance today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with filing false tax returns and tax evasion. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a former Huntsville physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, with illegally prescribing controlled substances and with a health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Lake Mead National Recreation Area is hosting a variety of events and offering free entry into the park Sept. 24 in celebration of National Public Lands Day.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Departments of the Army, the Interior and Justice invited tribal leaders to participate in government-to-government consultations on infrastructure permitting. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert Blake Jackson, 31, of Pensacola, pled guilty today to making materially false statements in a federal investigation. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: If you do not have a family member, friend or co-worker who suffers from a prescription opioid or heroin addiction problem, consider yourself lucky. A growing number of your fellow Kansans, on the other hand, are feeling the painful effects of America’s newest and most frightening drug epidemic.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of four members to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board. Members will serve three-year terms.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 23 - These modules supplement the release of the 2014 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs statistics and provide selected economic and demographic characteristics of respondent firms and their owners, including information on business innovation and research and development activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury in Austin has indicted three individuals, including 28-year-old Chimene Hamilton Onyeri of Houston, for their roles in fraud and racketeering schemes that involved the attempted capital murder of State District Court Judge Julie Kocurek in November of last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Alan Thomas, 53, of Masontown, West Virginia, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edwin Murray, 52 of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 75 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to inaccurate Republican leaks regarding a limited immunity agreement for Cheryl Mills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force arrested three suspects for illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and for possession of large amounts of methamphetamines and marijuana on the east side of Sioux Falls yesterday, Sept. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that the eighth and final defendant arising from Operation Road Block, an extensive investigation into a drug trafficking network operation in the Baton Rouge region, has been convicted following a federal jury trial. The other seven defendants had already been convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Bao Doan, 32, Falls Church, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to traffic in counterfeit Apple and Samsung products and smuggling. Doan was also ordered to forfeit over $115,000 in proceeds and to pay Apple and Samsung over $20,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SEP 23 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Cynthia “Cindy" Williams, 43 -, of Stetson, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 14 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Two defendants have been arrested on federal indictments charging them with aggravated identity theft and related counts arising from separate fraud schemes. Michelle Renee Marshall, age 46, of Washington, D.C., was arrested on Monday Sept. 19, 2016, and to had her initial appearance...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Two long-time volunteers at Ozark National Scenic Riverways have been recognized with a national award for their efforts in cave research and preservation in Missouri. Scott House and Mick Sutton of the Cave Research Foundation have been awarded the Lew Bicking Award for contributions to cave exploration and mapping.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
Release: The American Soybean Association opened its first overseas representative office in Tokyo in 1956. Since then, the U.S. soybean industry has been working in partnership with the Foreign Agricultural Service to create market opportunities for U.S. soybeans and soybean products in Japan. On Sept. 12...
