News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Flor Soto Oversaw Massive Identity Theft Ring That Filed False Tax Returns Under Names Of Identity Theft Victims, Earning Over $24 Million.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today introduced legislation to authorize a short, one-lane, gravel, non-commercial road for the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska. The road is needed to link King Cove to the all-weather airport in nearby Cold Bay and will provide local residents with reliable access to emergency medical transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester nurse pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with stealing painkillers from the nursing home where she worked and attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Mario Clinton Conspired with Others to Cash Stolen or Altered Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Michael Conway, the President of Choice Office Solutions LLC, was sentenced by United States District Judge William F. Kuntz to 4 years in prison. In February 2016, Conway had pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with a scheme where he forged numerous lease agreements to defraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAUL CHAVEZ, 57, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. CHAVEZ also was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on Jan. 10, 2017, a federal grand jury in Milwaukee returned an indictment against Tomeki L. Tyson (age 45), now of North Las Vegas, Nevada, and formerly of Racine, Wisconsin. Tyson is charged with twenty-one counts of making a false claim against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by filing false federal income tax returns which claimed refunds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today RICHARD V. KELLY, 44, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and was sentenced by United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron to 15 months in federal prison for using a wire fraud scheme to defraud Oklahoma City company of more than $1.2 million in false billings, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Maximizing yields while using as little water and fertilizer as possible is a top priority for Arizona wheat growers. Challenged by diminishing water supplies and rising fertilizer costs, growers know the exact amounts of water and fertilizer to use is critical. Using too much is not only costly, but can become useless as they percolate too deeply into the soil and contaminate groundwater.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Executive Appointments. FBI Director James B. Comey has announced the following leadership appointments: Paul Abbate Named Executive Assistant Director for the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch. In this position, Mr. Abbate oversees all FBI criminal and cyber investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Feds Secure $2.1 Million in U.S. Currency from Mike’s Auto Sales Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit yesterday to challenge the at-large method of electing the city council of Eastpointe, Michigan. The complaint alleges that the election system in Eastpointe violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by denying black citizens in the city the equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President-Elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will not divest himself of his corporate ownership interests around the world...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Indiana man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Ventura, CA - Marine biologist and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) professor Dr. Gretchen Hofmann will discuss how marine organisms in the Santa Barbara Channel are adapting to a changing ocean environment, during the January From Shore to Sea lecture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and the IRS presented $800,126 to state and local law enforcement agencies upon completing a forfeiture action involving money laundered through a local car dealership.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN MCCLATCHEY, a director at an investment bank in Manhattan (the “Investment Bank"), was sentenced today to five months in prison on securities fraud and wire fraud charges in connection with his provision...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY--U.S. Highway 89/26/191 in Grand Teton National Park from Moose to Moran Junction remains closed. This section of road has been closed since Tuesday morning due to limited and no visibility, and significant drifting. It is unknown if the road may open later tonight or perhaps tomorrow. Snowfall and windy conditions continue, and the road will open when conditions allow for safe two-way travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Reba Marcelle Myers, of Winchester, Virginia pled guilty to failing to pay $10,864.60 in taxes for a business where she was employed as Vice President, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darold Ray ZunieFeathers, 20, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
