News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, TX-The FBI Dallas Division is warning the public to be on alert for a phone scam that displays an FBI phone number on the caller ID. The scammer impersonates a government official and uses intimidation tactics to demand payment of money supposedly owed to the government. In some cases, university students are targeted and informed they owe delinquent student loan fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Four people involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank by placing a hoax bomb at an elementary school to divert police were in federal court last week after their January indictment was unsealed, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Stole more than $1.3 Million from Family Business and then Started Competing Company after being Fired for Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: FBI and the Chippewa Township Police Department Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Beaver Falls Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Cheated IRS Out of Approximately $400,000.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining Medicaid personal care services found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could do more to ensure requirements across programs are in harmony.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: This weekend, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) penned an opinion piece for one of his home state papers, The Record, outlining the Trump Administration’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). You can read Pallone’s article below...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE - A former detective with the Ville Platte Police Department was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for filing a false report to cover up a civil rights violation, announced U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana and Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: This weekend, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) penned an opinion piece for one of his home state papers, The Record, outlining the Trump Administration’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). You can read Pallone’s article below...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The Chief of Maintenance at Paradise #9 Mine located in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky was recently charged, by Grand Jury Indictment, for falsifying a safety record and lying to federal inspectors about making the fraudulent statement, announced Untied States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JACQUES FLEURIJEUNE, 27, also known as “Magic," last residing in New London, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud stemming from his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Texas man, formerly of Charleston, was sentenced today to six months in federal prison for a financial crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kevin Mabone, 56, previously pleaded guilty to misappropriating government funds. He was also ordered to pay $6,684.40 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE- A federal grand jury indicted ten South Bay residents for conspiring to commit extortion by force and conspiring to engage in drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI") Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin. According to the indictment unsealed today, seven of the defendants conspired to extort drug dealers while the other three defendants conspired to engage in trafficking methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned and indictment charging James Smith, 25, of Niagara Falls,
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Barbara-based criminal defense attorney was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for willfully failing to file tax returns for several years and failing to pay a total of $679,958 in income tax to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison today for an immigration crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Adan Zamudio-Escalante, also known as Victor Giron, 39, previously pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having previously been removed from the United States on two different occasions. He is also subject to removal proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Following a three-day jury trial, a Miami-Dade resident pled guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm after shooting a man in front of a convenience store in Miami Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Alan Kemp, age 38, of District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery and to using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Kemp was employed as a civilian police officer by the Department of the Army at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, at the time of the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleaded guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Scott Allen Forloine II, 36, of Scott Depot, entered his guilty plea to possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca District (BLM) and Friends of Black Rock High Rock (FBR) are soliciting artists for this year’s Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (NCA) Artist in Residence (AiR) program. This project is sponsored by the BLM in partnership with FBR. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2017.
