News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Gladstone, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Brea man who operated rehabilitation clinics in Walnut, Torrance and Los Angeles and defrauded Medicare out of approximately $3 million by billing for unneeded or unnecessary services has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Former City of Opa Locka Commissioner Luis Santiago has been charged for his participation in a two-year long bribery and extortion under color of official right conspiracy, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 666(a)(1)(B), and 1951(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN J. SIMON, JR., also known as “Buzzy Simon," 69, of Stafford Springs, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding U.S. veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY R. MURGIO pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to charges associated with operating Coin.mx, an internet-based Bitcoin exchange, through which MURGIO processed more than $10...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Wichita man pleaded guilty Tuesday of brandishing or aiding and abetting another robber who brandished a firearm during a bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS-As part of ongoing renovations at the Gateway Arch at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a new permanent power source for the Arch’s exterior lights will be installed this month. The monument will betemporarily unlit from January 17 to Feb. 3, 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Jason Eric Phifer (33, DeLand) to six years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute ethylone, commonly marketed as the street drug “Molly." A federal jury found him guilty on Sept. 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: JAN 10 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney announced that Jonathan Day, 42, of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 80 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Larry Malloy has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for distributing Schedule I and Schedule II controlled substances, including heroin and fentanyl, resulting in serious bodily injury and death, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment against three former traders of major banks for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency exchange (FX) spot market, the Justice Department announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Today the BLM announced the distribution of over $19 million to 18 counties in western Oregon. These payments follow a formula established in the 1937 Oregon and California (O&C) Lands Act and the Coos Bay Wagon Road (CBWR) Act, both of which authorize timber receipt-based payments to western Oregon counties, and both of which remain in effect following the expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN), U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (FL-24), and U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A former general manager and partial owner of a Florida-based energy company and an owner of multiple Texas-based energy companies each pleaded guilty today to foreign bribery charges for their role in a scheme to corruptly secure contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced the Bureau of Land Management has canceled the final two oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area within the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Northwest Montana. The two lease cancellations address outstanding concerns about the potential for oil and gas development in this culturally and ecologically important area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Defendant Swore Allegiance to al-Qaeda Leaders and Attempted To Travel To Yemen To Join al-Qaeda Affiliate.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Regional Director Terry Fulp announced the selection of Len Schilling as the Area Manager of the Lower Colorado Dams Office (LCDO) effective Monday, January 9, 2017. As the LCDO Area Manager, Schilling will provide management and operational oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Katrina Tiana Brown, 33, of Anchorage, Alaska, pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal narcotics trafficking charge. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Brown will be sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
