News from April 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Ivan Chavez and Brent Hutchins to Each Serve Federal Prison Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Conspirators Impersonated Cerner Corporation. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four more defendants were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in an elaborate, multi-million-dollar fraud scheme in which conspirators...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Releases from Boysen Dam to the Wind River are currently at 5,500 cubic feet per second (cfs). Based on current operating projections and the expectation of near record runoff, Boysen Reservoir will be lowered approximately another ten feet to near elevation 4,700 feet in May. Once the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Nerissa A. Orr, age 42, of Simpsonville, and Craig A, Mann, age 21, of Greenville, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to a conspiracy to commit mail theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On April 24, 2017, Elseddig Elmarioud Musa, 43, of Chandler, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 57 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Musa also was ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution. Musa was convicted by a jury of 35 counts of health care fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On April 24, 2017, Lance Gardenhire was convicted of conspiring to engage in large-scale heroin trafficking and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Used Computer Network Credentials to Access Company Emails to Obtain Non-Public Information.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Today the committee votes on the nomination of Robert Lighthizer to be the next U.S. Trade Representative. The global economy is increasingly competitive, and not all the competition is willing to play by the rules. Unfortunately, our workers and communities have had to fight off trade ripoffs and sometimes...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Acting U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss for the District of Delaware announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Wilmington indicted Scott C. Foster on April 13, 2017, on charges related to the production, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, AL- The Acting United States Attorney, Steve Butler, announces that Jennifer Arlene Rosas-Saucedo was sentenced in United States District Court, Senior Judge Callie V. Granade, on April 24, 2017 to eighty months confinement for being involved in a multi-state methamphetamine distribution conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two residents of Warren, Pennsylvania, have been sentenced in federal court on their convictions of violating federal tax and currency transaction laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced three Birmingham residents for conspiring to traffic nearly $2 million worth of heroin and fentanyl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: The Local Project Development Teams (LPDTs) for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) will meet at various locations in southwest Wyoming in May.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO, April 25, 2017-"Traveling the Road from Precision to Imprecision: Have I Gone in the Wrong Direction?" is the title of Dennis M. Bier's 2017 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) W. O. Atwater Memorial Lecture, which he delivers today at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -William Bucci, 60, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in prison for running an investment fraud scheme that duped victims into turning over more than $3.2 million, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS -Nemelee Liwanag Jiao, 47, of Irving, Texas, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas, on two counts of wire fraud for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 35 investors more than $1,000,000, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Travius Isaiah Mayer, age 26, of Greenville, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Rico Mandreil Sweeney, age 39, of Simpsonville, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). United...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Oxygen Equipment Provider Pays $11.4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.