News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The owner and operator of Mulder Financial Consulting - a financial services company that provided accounting, tax and bookkeeping services - pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges for embezzling more than $1.5 million from her clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Salina men were sentenced Monday on federal drug and gun charges, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield accountant and former CPA pleaded guilty in federal court today to two embezzlement schemes totaling more than $3 million and to failing to pay more than $2 million in taxes over the past six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Lesage, West Virginia man pled guilty today to a federal tax charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Seattle Field Division and the ATF Special Response Team executed a search warrant in Federal Way June 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Russell Lee Riggs, 69, of Weldon, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown in the Sequoia National Forest, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian wrapped up the 2017 LEADership Project at noon today at a conference at the Troy Middle School.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the availability of approximately $28 million for cost-shared research and development. Three new funding opportunities will advance technologies related to advanced combustion systems, advanced turbines, and gasification as part...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Jaleel Akeem Wulu, also known as “Trill Castro," and Javaree Malique Williams have been sentenced for lying to a federal firearms licensee during the purchase of a firearm, and conspiracy to commit that offense. The conspiracy involved multiple illegal firearms purchases from several firearms dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment charging Yousef Goba, 43, of Yemen, with making extortionate threats to harm and kidnap a minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to decrease flows from Lucky Peak Dam by 250 cubic feet per second (cfs) Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 8 am.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) and Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) today announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to strengthen and expand current U.S. sanctions on Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The operator of a Glendale tax preparation business who admitted defrauding his clients out of more than $1.2 million by diverting their tax refunds into his own bank accounts was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on June 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) Special Agent in Charge William Kalb announced that NANCY J. FRYE, 51, of Bristol, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to her involvement in an IRS impersonation scam that defrauded more than 500 victims in the United States and Canada.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman, I would like to join you in welcoming Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to the committee. I thank you for making the time to be here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Joshua D. Korb., age 38, of Greenville, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to trafficking in counterfeit goods, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2320. Senior United States District Judge Henry M. Herlong, Jr., of Greenville, 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lieutenant with the Quincy Police Department (QPD) was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of collecting double pay in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Winnemucca District Office (WDO), is seeking public comment on the East Pershing Complex Gather Plan Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA). The 30-day public comment period will close at 4:30 pm on July 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) - who pleaded guilty to five federal charges, including being the leader a scheme that led to the murder of a former-gangster-turned-cooperator, was sentenced today to 262 months in federal prison.
