News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brittany Brooks, 28, of Randallstown, Pennsylvania, was convicted for money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Winston Holliday (803) 929-3079.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - a Dresden, Tennessee, business owner and contract supplier pled guilty today in United States District Court before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Richard C. Webber, 54, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to serve 24 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: The key to America’s future competitiveness is making investments in an infrastructure that is ready to take on the challenges of the 21st century. That’s the central message Chairman Bill Shuster and members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee delivered during the Committee’s first...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Feb. 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation to raise awareness of the harm it causes to women, girls, and societies worldwide.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: The Civil War Trust and Gettysburg National Military Park are partnering to host a one-day volunteer event called Civil War Park Day on April 1. This one-day nationwide event brings Civil War enthusiasts together in an effort to help keep our nation’s Civil War heritage not only preserved, but pristine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sussex County, New Jersey, man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, February 4, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Gang Member Shot and Killed C.W. Post Basketball Star Tafare Berryman in 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: A two-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court in Central Islip, New York, charging defendant Jaime Rivera, a member of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation street gang, with the 2005 murder of C.W. Post student and basketball star Tafare Berryman, as well as a related firearms charge. The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former financial advisor, who provided services and investment advice to current and former professional athletes, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from the theft of more than $1 million from his clients, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Healthcare Service Provider to Pay $60 Million to Settle Medicare and Medicaid False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted downloading sexually explicit videos and images of children to his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A major U.S. hospital service provider, TeamHealth Holdings, as successor in interest to IPC Healthcare Inc., f/k/a IPC The Hospitalists Inc. (IPC), has agreed to resolve allegations that IPC violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, the Defense Health Agency and the Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Manuel Boydston, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: TONOPAH, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) concluded a wild horse helicopter gather on the Reveille Herd Management Area (HMA) located about 50 miles east of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada on Feb. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: (CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - - A two-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court in Central Islip, New York, charging defendant Jaime Rivera, a member of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation street gang, with the 2005 murder of C.W. Post student and basketball star Tafare Berryman as well as a related firearms charge. The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Donald Perkins, 29, of Rutland, was sentenced to forty-eight month’s imprisonment by United States District Judge J. Garvan Murtha. The term of imprisonment will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release by...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney’s Office continues to go after violent felons who possess guns and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Pritchett, 21, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years.
