News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Steven Strang, Jr., 38, of Athens, Maine, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 6 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. Strang pled guilty on May 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: A Chinese national living in Massachusetts was arrested and charged with distributing opioids and other drugs that were shipped from China to the United States and ultimately to Ohio, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud a trucking company out of more than $900,000, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - John T. Booker Jr., 22, of Topeka, Kan., was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb on the Fort Riley military base in Manhattan, Kan. On Feb. 3, 2016, Booker pleaded guilty to one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of attempted destruction of government property by fire or explosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TONY RILEY, age 48, of Empire, Louisiana, was charged Friday in a one-count Indictment for committing mail fraud in relation to the BP settlement fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A leader of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that involved murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to distribute heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three defendants were sentenced today for running a foreclosure rescue scam in Bakersfield, Visalia and Salinas, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former salesman at Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey, company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud customers and lying to a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: In its ongoing effort to provide opportunities for responsible energy development, support the creation of jobs, and facilitate positive economic impacts to local communities, the Bureau of Land Management today released its initial environmental analysis for the High Plains District First Quarter 2018 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The document is available for a 30-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Juneau man was sentenced to federal prison for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Denise Rea Barner appeared today before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sipple and entered a plea of guilty to fraudulently using her employer’s debit card for personal gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Dr. James Norman, the owner and operator of James Norman, MD, PA, a/k/a James Norman, MD, PA Parathyroid Center, d/b/a Norman Parathyroid Center (collectively, Norman) has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by knowingly engaging in various unlawful billing practices with respect to Medicare and other federal health care programs and their beneficiaries.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Current Terrorist Threats.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. Post Office Manager and Two Letter Carriers Found Guilty of Bribery and Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after voting to confirm David Bernhardt to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. The Senate confirmed Bernhardt through a bipartisan vote of 53-43.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Two Knoxville-area men pleaded guilty in federal court in Knoxville on July 20, 2017, for a hunting incident that occurred in October 2016. Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area law enforcement rangers, with assistance from U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agents, conducted an investigation into an illegal all-terrain vehicle trail and discovered several illegal bait sites that were actively being hunted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Defrauded Social Security of over $114,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Ricky Thompson, aka Boom, 43, of Toledo, Ohio was convicted on Friday of conspiracy to distribute over 1 kilogram of heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. A federal jury in Nashville found Thompson guilty on all charges, after a two-week trial, including conspiracy to commit money laundering; possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking; and conspiracy to commit witness intimidation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Former Bank Vice President Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Contact: Stephen Baker, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region, 503-808-2690.
