News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Claud R. Koerber aka Rick Koerber with violations of federal law in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment[1] was filed today charging William Peterman, Jr., formerly of Medford Lake, NJ and more recently of Beaufort, SC, with threatening to kill President Barack Obama. According to the indictment, on Jan. 10, 2017, posted on his Facebook page that he “will kill" President Barack Obama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former United Parcel Service (UPS) employee pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2017, in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that shipped cocaine, secreted in UPS packages, from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases including “El Chapo," has been extradited and is en route to the United States to face criminal charges in connection with his leadership of the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the “Sinaloa Cartel.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Frederick Jermaine Porter, age 27, of Spartanburg, pled guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Anderson to a felon in possession of a firearm indictment. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Engineering Evaluation/ Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for remediation of contamination at a Cattle Dipping Tank Site (CDT) at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park. The NPS is hosting a meeting to discuss the EE/CA and the proposed removal action alternative.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez renewed the charter of the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that all advisory committees renew their charters every two years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Houston-based Advanced Containment Systems Inc. (ACSI) and Boh Environmental LLC,(Boh) have agreed to pay $2,483,000 to settle allegations that Boh sold the Department of Defense (DoD) steel storage containers that were not manufactured according to contractual requirements, announced U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: On Jan. 18, 2017, Ricky M. Carle, 28, of Marissa, was sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine offenses, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 18, 2017, Robert L. Budd, Jr., heather Jean Reekrage 73, of Bettendorf, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to four months in prison for conspiracy to bribe a public official and four months for bribery of a public official, the sentences...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Benjamin Marcel Wright, age 23, of Greenville, pled guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Anderson for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Costco Wholesale to Pay $11.75 Million to Settle Allegations of Lax Pharmacy Controls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Two Mexican nationals, who were working in the Homestead, Florida, area and elsewhere, were sentenced today to prison for their participation in a conspiracy to obtain and provide forced labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted his role in a scheme to obtain stolen identity information and use it to file phony tax returns with the IRS, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Company also Agrees to Implement Anti-Fraud Program and Enhanced Compliance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Benjamin Marcel Wright, age 23, of Greenville, pled guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Anderson for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a man previously charged with attempting to entice a missing Springfield, Mo., teenager to engage in illicit sexual activity has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: New York Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., today applauded a decision by the U.S. Trade Representative to challenge rules that discriminate against selling American wines in British Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - President Barack Obama designated Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) in southeastern Utah on Dec. 28, 2016. Concurrently, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the agencies would conduct open house meetings to begin...
