News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mansfield, Texas-based Integrated Medical Solutions Inc. (IMS), along with the company’s former President Jerry Heftler, have agreed to pay the United States $2.475 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act in connection with federal contracts IMS obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Federal Prosecutors Join with Tribal Leaders to Combat Opioid Epidemic in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnnie William Bateman, III, of Culpepper, Virginia, was convicted today of traveling across state lines to meet a minor for sex, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago trader has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing his employer’s proprietary trading code.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Lesage, West Virginia man is facing a federal tax charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andre Jackson, 29, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: The agency is proposing to issue authorizations that prescribe monitoring, reporting, and mitigation measures to minimize the impacts of the surveys to marine mammals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Raymond Arthur Gentile, 56, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, and two counts of making false statements during firearms transactions, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was arrested and charged today for allegedly distributing images and videos of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Three defendants in two separate cases were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater for various methamphetamine distribution offenses. Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of Dallas’ Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia man was convicted today in federal court of illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that brothers BURNELL SCOTT, a/k/a “B.U.," and BURCHANTI SCOTT, a/k/a “Napp," were sentenced in Manhattan federal court today. BURCHANTI SCOTT was sentenced to 11 years in prison for distributing heroin, while...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Nicholas Coy, 32, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to six years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - An illegally present Jamaica national was indicted in the Middle District of Florida May 24 on multiple felony charges for assault on a federal official as well as being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. The charges follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Edward Tillinghast, age 47, of Chesapeake City, Maryland, today for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jeffrey Butler, age 33, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to serve 87 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Four Fort Worth bank robbers were sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge John McBryde for their roles in the Nov. 3, 2016 robbery of a Woodhaven National Bank. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: It’s a sight weary drivers have waited on for a long time. The frustrating detour, which began in November 2015, around the Little Swan Creek Bridge is gone!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Thomas Leslie Carr (49, Jacksonville) guilty of using underage “models" to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing pornographic images and videos. He faces a minimum...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) to express concerns over challenges facing the federal Job Corps program, as well as to request detailed information on steps the Department is taking to improve the health and safety of those who participate in the program.
