News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Energy & Process Corporation (“E&P"), of Tucker, Georgia, alleging that E&P knowingly failed to perform required quality assurance procedures and supplied defective steel reinforcing bars (“rebar") in connection with a contract to construct a Department of Energy (“DOE") nuclear processing facility, the Justice Department announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Partnerships play a vital role in protecting and enhancing National Park Service sites and programs. Today, a variety of groups that have made significant contributions were named as the recipients of the 2016 Director's Partnership Awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tyrone Brown, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO Conspiracy in connection with two deadly shootings before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.‐‐U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tyrone Brown, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO Conspiracy in connection with two deadly shootings before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Anthony Lepore, John Rife, and Brian Domalik, the former President, Regional Vice President, and Division Manager for Rite Way Service, Inc., were convicted by a federal jury yesterday on conspiracy, bribery and honest services fraud charges after a nearly two-week jury trial. The charges were brought in connection with a multi-year scheme to bribe a public official who was employed with DeKalb County government and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON CRUZ, a former teacher and debate coach at the Bronx High School for Science, pled guilty today to one count of receiving child pornography. CRUZ, who was arrested on March 5, 2015, entered his plea before United States District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Adam Michael Groat, 28, of Gervais to seven years in federal prison and a life term of supervised release after Groat’s previous pleas of guilty to three counts of distributing child pornography, three counts of receiving child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsauken, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 71 months in prison for illegally selling 16 guns, including firearms with high-capacity magazines and obliterated serial numbers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: STONEWALL, TEXAS -Put on your dancing boots and head over to the LBJ Ranch on Saturday, Oct. 22, for the annual"Barbecue on the Pedernales." Co-hosted by the National Park Service and Friends of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, this event continues a Johnson family tradition of Texas hospitality.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan has permanently enjoined LESTER MORRISON, a tax preparer who pled guilty in 2010 to orchestrating a large-scale tax fraud scheme, from working as a federal income...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), leaders of the bipartisan Policing Strategies Working Group, today issued the following joint statement on the police-involved shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Charlotte, North Carolina and subsequent protests...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Roy Lee Tolbert, age 43, of Washington, D.C., today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a diamond store in Queenstown, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Joplin, Mo., police officer has pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by attempting to get her case dismissed in exchange for a sexual relationship.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: (COLUMBUS, OH - Deshawn M. Smith, 29, of Columbus, Ohio pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of racketeering conspiracy in connection with a case involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse. Smith’s trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Adam Michael Groat, 28, of Gervais to seven years in federal prison and a life term of supervised release after Groat’s previous pleas of guilty to three counts of distributing child pornography, three counts of receiving child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Sam Ames Sent to Prison for Role in Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: KETTERING, Ohio - In the past year, federal, state and local law enforcement partnerships in southwestern Ohio have seized more than 35 kilograms of heroin and ten kilograms of fentanyl, and charged 96 people federally in 47 cases with trafficking heroin. Included in the charges were two people charged with providing heroin that led to death.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments on the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan." Since the plan was proposed, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power has held eight hearings examining the legality and implementation of this rule. Selected excerpts of testimony from these hearings, as well as links to the hearings and related information, are provided below.
