News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Veronica Dale Hahn, 60, of Bonifay, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to 9 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $394,800.85 in restitution, after pleading guilty to theft of government funds on the second day of her trial in January. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Today, a federal jury in South Florida convicted Dr. Salomon Melgen of sixty-seven criminal counts related to his participation in a health care fraud scheme involving the filing of false claims and the inclusion of false entries into patients’ medical charts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
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 | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison for using her position in charge of the Chicago Public Schools to guide lucrative no-bid contracts to her former employer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joshua Aaron Shores, age 44, of Bel Air, Maryland and also of Ocean City, Maryland, was sentenced on April 27, 2017, by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to 60 months’ imprisonment for a $2.5 million dollar fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 29-year-old Edinburg man has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of production, receipt and distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Carlos Benjamin Martinez pleaded guilty Dec. 2, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) PhD candidate Lindsay Marks will discuss new research on the spread and ecology of the invasive seaweed Sargassum horneri in southern California.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has issued a Determination permitting the Department of Energy (DOE) to continue making uranium transfers to support ongoing clean-up work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio, while also reducing the total amount of those transfers per year from 1,600 metric tons of uranium (MTU) to 1,200 MTU.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement and infographic on the homeland security implications of President Trump’s first 100 days in office...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Gila District is issuing a temporary emergency closure of public lands in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties. This closure affects public lands within the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to include areas between Highway 82 and Interstate 10 and Highway 83 to Highway 90.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: During their annual kelp forest monitoring surveys, National Park Service (NPS) biologists found a highly invasive nonnative kelp Undaria pinnatifida at West Anacapa Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Among 16 People to Plead Guilty Following Investigation of Drug Ring.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY - As a part of last week’s celebration of National Park Week, Grand Teton National Park education rangers launched a new distance learning program titled “Behind the Flat Hat: Ranger Careers." The interactive program designed for students in seventh and eighth grade, and adaptable for other ages, was highly successful during its first week and the program will continue through this school year and in future school years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three men were charged in federal court today, in separate but related cases, for the armed robbery of a Columbia, Mo., bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - The Drug Enforcement Administration holds its 13th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day tomorrow, Saturday April 29, 2017 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The public can dispose of their unused, unwanted prescription medications at one of more than 5,000 collection sites nationwide, operated by 3,800 local law enforcement agencies and other community partners. The service is free of charge, no questions asked.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Olympic National Park and Federal Highway Administration staff are working together to repair and improve pavement on roads, parking lots and campgrounds in the western sections of Olympic National Park. The eastern half of the park was completed in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: APR 28 - BURLINGTON, Vt. - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging Brian Folks, 42, of and Winooski, Vermont and New York City with four counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, and one count of sex trafficking of a minor. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - Four local residents and two Mexican nationals have been ordered to federal prison for their respective roles in laundering drug proceeds, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Everett man was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of armed bank robbery, using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, and being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
