News from July 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARRELL RICKS, age 66, of Covington, pled guilty today to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Daniel Roger Alo, 46, a Georgia penal resident, was sentenced earlier this week by U. S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 29 years in federal prison for his role in running a drug trafficking ring from a Georgia prison cell that operated throughout the Southeast.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI- A federal grand jury has charged Brian D. Jones, 38, of Vevay, Indiana with defrauding investors in his livestock brokerage business.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James D. Robnett, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced the arrest of EARL SIMMONS, an internationally known recording artist, performer, and actor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: A licensed physician in Miami pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a multi-faceted $4.8 million health care fraud scheme that ran from April 2011 to February 2017, involving the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and the illegal prescribing of Schedule II (e.g., oxycodone and hydrocodone) and Schedule IV (e.g., alprazolam) controlled substances.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The skyline will soon change at the Hanford Site ’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. This time-lapse video shows workers with EM contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) creating a gravel pad for the facility’s ventilation stack to fall onto when it’s demolished. This weekend...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection ’s (ORP) tank operations contractor recently deployed new tools that reduce radiological hazards to workers while removing pumps from nuclear waste storage tanks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in leading a marriage fraud conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A senior sales executive at a seafood processing company in Gloucester was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for tax fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: FBI Dallas Fugitive Faustino Lara Valdez Deported From Mexico.

By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 13, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Stephen Censky to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Perdue issued the following statement: “Our work has only just begun in delivering results for the people of American ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115 doctors, nurses ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Robert N. Hatfield, who rents, sells, and finances homes in Wilkes County, North Carolina. The lawsuit alleges that Hatfield sexually harassed actual and prospective female residents and borrowers in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: A Michigan business owner was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison today for obstructing and impeding the internal revenue laws and committing bank fraud, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: A Lawrence, Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today during his trial in the District of Massachusetts to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), access device fraud, theft of government property, aggravated identity theft and money laundering, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb for the District of Massachusetts.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the initiations of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether imports of ripe olives from Spain are being dumped in the United States and whether producers in Spain are receiving alleged unfair subsidies.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.