News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Pre-signed Approximately 9,000 Blank Narcotics Prescriptions Before Afghanistan Deployment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Nesly Loute (52, Naples) guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. He was ordered detained pending sentencing on Jan. 17, 2017. In addition, Loute must pay restitution to the victim automobile insurance companies and forfeit the proceeds of the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 30, 2016 - These data include single-year estimates of the number of firms, number of establishments, employment and annual payroll. Data are presented by state, industry and enterprise employment size.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Pablo Ramirez-Andrade, 32, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Sept. 28, 2016, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Ramirez-Andrade was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for construction of a groundwater project through a cost share agreement between the San Joaquin River Restoration Program and the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After correspondence and two staff briefings with the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Park Service (NPS) on the decades of systemic mismanagement of natural and cultural resources at Effigy Mounds National Monument (EFMO), the House Committee on Natural Resources is conducting further oversight. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oklahoma Field Office is consolidating its Tulsa and Oklahoma City offices into a new facility in Norman, Oklahoma. The move is expected to improve organizational and operational efficiency for the benefit of customers and the public. Due to the consolidation, the...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Reina Ashley Gonzales, age 28, of Pueblo, and Ricardo Estevan Suazo, age 26, who was is in the Pueblo County Detention Facility, have been charged by Criminal Complaint with Conspiracy to Commit a Murder-for-Hire facilitated by interstate commerce (land line phones and cell phones), the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 47-year-old Corpus Christi man has been sentenced in Laredo federal court following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal Jury convicted Michael Taylor on May 4, 2016, following a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A broker-dealer was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for participating in a five-year insider trading scheme that relied on information stolen from an international law firm and yielded net profits of more than $5.6 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A husband and wife from Alpharetta, GA were charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Framingham-based Staples, Inc. of more than $1.4 million.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Spokane, Wash. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District has lifted the regulated fire closure on public lands administered by the BLM in eastern Washington. The termination of the regulated fire closure will be effective Oct. 4, 2016 at 12:01 a.m. in the following counties: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered Speqtrum Inc., a home health care agency, to pay the United States $6.15 million in civil damages after ruling in the government’s favor in a lawsuit alleging that the company violated the False Claims Act by repeatedly and routinely falsifying records to obtain funds from Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: A Florida business owner was charged in an indictment unsealed today with participating in a scheme that sold the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals to fraudulent telemarketers, who in turn used the information to target potential victims for various fraudulent telemarketing schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Kennedy Harris, Jr., (23, Cocoa) guilty of sex trafficking of a child, with force, fraud, or coercion, and production of child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19, 2016. Harris was indicted on May 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Alessandra Serano (619) 546-8104.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, Vuthiya Tim, 31, of Stockton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and theft of mail matter, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Kahuku to Open Fridays Starting October 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Naum Morgovsky was arraigned in federal court today for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud two federally-insured banks through short sales of two rental properties in Hawaii, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge...
