News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted his involvement in an August 2015 home invasion that left one person dead, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that a Criminal Complaint was filed against GARRETT GRIMSLEY, age 27, of Cary, charging him with Transmitting a Threat in Interstate Commerce to Injure the Person of Another. GRIMSLEY appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers, II today for his initial appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Ismael Nevarez, Jr. of the Phoenix Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation, Chief Gorden E. Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department, and Undersheriff Greg Rees of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department will hold a press...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Warns of Phone Scam That Uses the FBI's Name to Threaten Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: A. Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - The Bureau of Land Management Challis Field Office announced today plans to conduct a bait trap gather of wild horses within the Challis Wild Horse Herd Management Area (CHMA) beginning later this month (depending on weather conditions). This is the first time a larger-scale bait trap operation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced AUGUSTO ESPINDOLA-PINEDA, 38, from Snow Hill, N.C., to 210 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The FBI Seattle Field Office selected Black Diamond, Washington resident Ginger Passarelli for a 2016 Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). Every year, each FBI field office honors a person who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to his or her local community through service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Joint Law Enforcement Operation Focused on Human Trafficking During Mardi Gras and the NBA All-Star Game.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: FEB. 21, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released annual statistics for the 2016 vacancy rates, homeownership rates and characteristics of units available for occupancy for the United States, regions, states and the 75 largest metropolitan statistical areas. Data for all geographies are from the Current Population Survey and are available both quarterly and annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Used Stolen Personal Information to Claim Benefits and Open Fraudulent Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - The former Maintenance Supervisor of the City of Norton Parks and Recreation Department, who previously admitted to coercing women who were on state probation to perform sexual favors for him and lying in federal court, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a Small Business Industry Day to help the public understand and utilize the government’s contracting process. Contracting specialists will review topics including registering on the System for Award Management, where opportunities will be posted, and how to get an award.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Detroit man sentenced to 10 years; Huntington drug dealer sentenced to over three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 14, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Melisa A. Beyer (age: 37) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The first count charges that between January 2007 and May 2014, she embezzled...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Earnest Moore, 40, of Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin. In a separate prosecution, Robert Douglas Black, 52, of Huntington, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today announced that Kara Getz has been named Chief Counsel for the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ashley Herrera, 28, of Espanola, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Four defendants including two sober home owners, the clinical director of a substance abuse treatment center, and a sales representative for multiple laboratories pled guilty last week for their participation in a health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, today introduced a resolution of disapproval (H. J. Res 83) under the Congressional Review Act to overturn an unlawful power grab by the Obama administration and reject a failed approach to workplace safety. The resolution ...
