News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: JAN. 4, 2017 - This release combines 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) data with the 2012 Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies. This combined data product provides a look at the ownership characteristics (specifically, gender, ethnicity and race) of exporting companies. These data were first produced in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: A Bellevue developer who raised more than $150 million from immigrant investors pleaded guilty today to fraud charges in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. LOBSANG DARGEY, 43, entered guilty pleas to two federal felonies alleging that DARGEY defrauded immigrant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Submitted Falsified Documents and Diverted Money for his Personal Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former church youth leader in Iberia, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, 24-year-old Brennan R. Diaz was sentenced to a total of 56 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for scheming with his mother to steal over $1 million from a local church owned by his grandfather, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Lee Dotson, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: William Morgan Sr. to Spend Time in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announces that REHABILITATION MEDICINE OF OKLAHOMA, PLLC and BCOT, PLLC dba REHABILITATION MEDICINE OF OKLAHOMA - TULSA have paid $315,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that the clinics violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Office of Workers Compensation Programs of the United States Department of Labor ("DOL-OWCP").
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to incrementally increase releases below Nimbus Dam from 3,500 cubic feet per second to 15,000 cfs Jan. 5 to manage potential Sierra runoff. If inflows continue to increase or start to decrease, operational adjustments will be made as necessary and may occur on short notice.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Carson City, Nev.--The Bureau of Land Management, Sierra Front-Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, Sage-grouse sub-committee will meet on Wednesday, January 11. The meeting will be held at the BLM State Office, at 1340 Financial Boulevard, in Reno, Nev., from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. A public comment period will be held at 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Husband of Former U.S. Embassy Official in Morocco Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Sexually Abusing Household Staff Member.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nathan Antonio Davis, age 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty late on Jan. 3, 2017, to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine; and conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent Steve Gibbons announced he will retire on January 7 after a career spanning five decades, thirty-four years of National Park Service (NPS) experience, and twenty-eight parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted six members of a Chicago street gang known as the Hobos of participating in a criminal organization that engaged in narcotics distribution and committed murders, attempted murders and armed robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after the House passed five Committee bills under suspension of the rules, which kick start the Committee’s robust reform agenda for the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Troy A. Paul, 48, of Nampa was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for access with intent to view child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Paul pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with robbing the Bank of America yesterday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Wednesday that United States District Court Judge James M. Moody Jr., sentenced Tonique Hatton, 39, of North Little Rock, to prison for her role in a widespread scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jonathan May, 49, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on January 4, 2017 in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 48 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for possession of child pornography. After his release from prison, May will also serve five years of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Arkansas State Representative Pleads Guilty to Bribe Conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Manufacturing USA initiative, today the Energy Department announced its new Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute, which will be headquartered in Rochester, New York and led by the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance. REMADE will leverage up to $70 million in federal funding, subject to appropriations, and will be matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from over 100 partners.
