News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Sun Penang, Inc., a Pittsburgh restaurant and itsOwner have been sentenced in federal court on a conviction of falsifying, concealing, or covering up by trick, scheme, or device a material fact, and, on behalf of the business, on willfully violating the Fair Labor Standard Act, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and several tribal leaders spoke out today against the Trump administration’s announcement that it plans to remove Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections from grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Newport Beach man who orchestrated a wide-reaching conspiracy that smuggled, manufactured and distributed millions of dollars worth of analogue drugs which were used to manufacture synthetic cannabinoids has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis - Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney, announced today the owner and director of compliance of an Indiana compounding pharmacy were charged criminally in connection with their distribution of over- and under-potent drugs, and defrauding the United States by interfering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Pharmacy Owner and Director of Compliance Charged with Defrauding United States and Distributing Adulterated Drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released the following statement regarding the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 discussion draft...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: During the evening of Wednesday, June 21, the Alaska Fire Service notified the National Park Service that they had discovered a new lightning-caused fire in the Preserve near Trout Creek, about 25 air miles northwest of Eagle. It is approximately ½ acre in size, burning in mixed hardwood and spruce within...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will initiate fire restrictions for BLM-managed public lands in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Colusa, Glenn and Solano counties beginning Monday, June 26. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Defendants are facing a forfeiture allegation of $133,025.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Agreed to accept shipments of cocaine sent via the U.S. mail at her residence and post office box, and turn the packages over to a drug operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Florence, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Florwer Carlin Lizano, Jr., age 41, of Dillon, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced Lizano to 48 months imprisonment and three-years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Armando Martinez Nunez, of Downingtown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about May 5, 2017, Martinez-Nunez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about June 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Travis Daniel Smith, age 29, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, was sentenced after earlier pleading guilty in federal court to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with money laundering in connection with an overseas undercover investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a violent member of the Omaha-area Crips Gang was sentenced to eight years in prison and five years of supervised release for participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving acts of violence including attempted murder and assaults and drug distribution, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Robert C. Stuart of the District of Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Susan M. Ruhe, 53, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of bank fraud. Ruhe defrauded her former employer, Procter & Gamble, of more than $454,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Mark Joshua Mitchell, 39, of Destin, pled guilty today to seven counts of interstate transportation of stolen property. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Dr. Zahid Aslam, 44, of Elkton, Maryland, was charged by the federal grand jury on June 15, 2017, in a three-count Indictment with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and false statements on loan applications.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes them. Able to operate in ordinary, room-temperature environments, yet exploiting some of the deepest principles of quantum physics, these optomechanical...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after Senate Republicans unveiled their health care bill...
