News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former bank employee has pled guilty to embezzlement. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released its decision to gather and remove wild horses within the Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek, and Adobe Town herd management areas. The decision demonstrates the BLM’s commitment to maintaining healthy wild horses on healthy, productive public rangelands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Pineville man pleaded guilty Monday to using an online storage site to house child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Thomas Herris Sigler, III, 46, and William A. Dennis, 56, to serve 33 and 21 months incarceration, respectively. Sigler and Dennis both pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for their roles in attacking and intimidating an interracial...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A man from New York and a woman from New Jersey were arrested this morning for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid that is several times more potent than morphine, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Retired U.S. Army Colonel Charged With Conspiring to Bribe Senior Officials of the Republic of Haiti.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Peggy Chaffin, 38, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was sentenced today to 112 months incarceration for illegally possessing a gun and using said gun to obstruct a Deputy U. S. Marshal, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the arrest of Charles Cory Thornton (36, Yulee) on a criminal complaint charging him with transporting and attempting to transport child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. His detention hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Sunday, Sept. 10, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 30 minute program at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District. This program will explore the lives of the Cherokee during the Antebellum Period. Parking will be at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two Bay Area companies and the two individuals who head them will pay approximately $2 million to resolve federal and state False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly overbilled a program designed to serve Californians with developmental disabilities, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Terry J. Ellis, 77, of Lima, was charged via criminal information with making a false report to a bank, said Justin E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerry “Jake" Wilson Hartley of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 240 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey, with over 140 kilograms of narcotics in their possession made their initial appearances today in Newark federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Dr. Gordon P. Laird has agreed to pay $580,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Weather forecasts indicate that there is a high likelihood that Potential Tropical Cyclone Ten may bring sustained tropical storm force winds and heavy rainfall to Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore), Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial this evening and tomorrow.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Montezuma Castle National Monument will host monthly demonstrations by two-time award winner of the Santa Fe Indian Market “Best in Show", Jerry Whagado. Beginning on September 2nd, the demonstrations will be from 10am-1pm on the first Saturday of each month, through December of 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release FEMA News Desk Phone: 202-646-3272 Protect your health and safety, follow state, local and tribal official instructions to shelter in place or evacuate WASHINGTON – The federal government’s emergency responders continue to respond to states, local communities, and tribes as impacts continue across southeast Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: A Detroit, Michigan resident, who owned a janitorial service company, pleaded guilty to obstructing the internal revenue laws and failing to file an individual tax return, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: A jury has convicted a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee of bank fraud and making false statements, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Assistant Director in Charge Andrew Vale of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Regional ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has postponed the final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of softwood lumber from Canada until no later than Nov. 14, 2017.
