News from April 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: The latest economic figures show inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) from the ocean economy grew 15.6 percent from 2007 to 2014, outpacing the overall U.S. economy, which grew at 5.8 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Lamar Cox, 73, of Nashville, Tenn., former Chief Operating Officer and Board of Directors member of now defunct Tennessee Commerce Bank (TCB), pleaded guilty on April 21, 2017, to causing the bank to make a false statement to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. TCB was closed by federal regulators on Jan. 27, 2012, due to its failing financial condition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 32-year-old legal permanent resident from Nigeria and his 31-year-old Houston girlfriend have been ordered to federal prison in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Tom Emasealu and Krystal Prophet entered guilty pleas in December 2016 after four...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK W. ERRICO, 64, of Norwalk, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to federal embezzlement and tax evasion offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Huntington Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - A former worker’s compensation manager, Christopher Manfuso, has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to immediately pay a $50,000 fine, for his role in the operation of the massive pill mill run by Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Superintendent Brad Bennett announces that the general management planning effort focused on Moccasin Bend National Archeological District is nearing completion. The planning effort will amend the 1988 General Management Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Abdoulaye Barry, 25, of Jamaica, NY, pleaded guilty to possessing a fraudulent passport card and aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of two years in prison, a maximum of 10 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Law enforcement agencies across Iowa continue to make the area safer by addressing the problem of gun crime and violence. Acting United States Attorney Sean R. Berry announced charges and arrests in seventeen recent federal gun cases at a press conference held at the United States Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Moraine Park Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park will be closed at noon on Tuesday, May 2, and will reopen by Thursday, May 25, for a major water line system improvement project. Aspenglen Campground, which normally opens in late May, will open early, beginning May 1, to provide camping opportunities on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. Attorney’s Office and UNM Health and Sciences Center are encouraging community participation in DEA’s 13th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 29, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 pm as part of the prevention and education component of the New Mexico Heroin...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 58,555 visitors to Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in 2016 spent $3,423,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 57 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $4,232,800.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: The Minors Were Allegedly Transported from Charlotte to Myrtle Beach, S.C. to Engage in Commercial Sex Acts.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 1,027,738 visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 2016 spent $66,160,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1016 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $81,561,200.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: With the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent release of $485 million in grants to battle the opioid epidemic, several committee members greeted the news determined to stem the tide of overdoses and deaths in their districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas last week, and unsealed today, charges Moiz Mumtaz Ali, 36, of McKinney, Texas, with offenses related to his role in fraudulently obtaining and cashing 3,423 U.S. Treasury checks totaling approximately $16 million, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Roberto Yamil Velez-Garcia, age 30, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute a quantity of heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Melissa D. Huffman Stole Cash from Bank Vaults; Blamed Others.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: With the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent release of $485 million in grants to battle the opioid epidemic, several committee members greeted the news determined to stem the tide of overdoses and deaths in their districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a man from Mexico pleaded guilty last week to lying on a passport application he applied for at the Morgan City post office.
