News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a $718,000 tax fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Registered Nurse Who Owned Two Houston Home Health Companies Convicted in $20 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO - The life of Oliver Hazard Perry - “The Hero of Lake Erie" - will be celebrated on August 19 and 20 at Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial with living history programs and black powder artillery demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A business located in Erie, Pennsylvania and three residents of Erie County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SAQUENA GRIFFIN, a/k/a “QUEENIE," age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal Medicare kickbacks which resulted in Medicare paying $378,274 to a local home health agency.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: It is the National Park Service’s birthday, and we hope you will visit Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain, to celebrate the National Park Service turning 101 years old. For this special day, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is waiving the entrance fee to Point Park on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected an additional five projects to receive $4.8 million to investigate novel uses of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from coal-fired power plants. Each project will contribute a non-federal cost share of at least 20 percent, bringing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Two Men Convicted of Sex Trafficking 15-Year Old Girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Brian Author Thomas (27, Port Charlotte) to 30 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his laptop computer and cellphone, which were used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Fresno residents Alfonso Arreguin Alvarado, 20, and Victor Barragan Gonzalez, 33, charging them with cultivating marijuana and conspiring to cultivate marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: On July 20, Jacob Miller concluded his Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) experience at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. A fourth grade teacher at Huntsville Elementary School, in Huntsville, Tennessee, Jacob worked as Big South Fork’s TRT where his main focus was to create new educational...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Michelle Lisa Stout, 33, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Aug. 10, 2017, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail. Stout was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received 41 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Jeffery Lynn Gentry, 40, of White County, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court, to wire fraud and money laundering, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Gentry was charged on July 5, 2017, with operating a $43 million investment scheme in which he bilked investors out of more than $10 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court on August 9, 2017, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced WILLIAM ROBERT CANUPP, 58, from Richlands, N.C., to 42 months in prison and 3 years of supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: On July 21, Carol Hesse concluded her Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) experience at Manhattan Project National Historical Park. A math teacher at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, Carol worked as Manhattan Project’s 2017 TRT, where her main focus was to create a new educational resource...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: She Distributed Child Pornography Images via Text Messaging.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Shonda Williams, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced on August 8, 2017, to 15 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jerome McDuffie.
