News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JEFFREY LEE MORRIS, age 35, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 2 years probation, and to pay a $500.00 fine for OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, in violation of Title 47, Section 11-902(A)(2) of the Oklahoma Statutes, and Title 18, United States Code, Sections 7(3) and 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Taylor Boyd-White, 26, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty yesterday to operating a multi-year credit-card cloning operation, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Statement on Incident at Flint's Bishop International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Sixteen members and associates of the Yung Money/Yung Gunz Bloods street gang have been indicted with conspiracy to commit transportation of stolen vehicles and wire fraud, transportation of stolen vehicles, sale or receipt of stolen vehicles, and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The managing partner of a Waltham-based investment advisory firm was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a securities fraud scheme known as “cherry-picking" that netted over $1.3 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing today on H.R. 2662, the “Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017. Introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD), the bill addresses longstanding problems with the way the Indian Health Service (IHS) administers healthcare to tribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Law Enforcement Shares Findings of the Investigation into the June 14 Alexandria, Virginia Shooting.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Alan Mikkelsen announced that Reclamation has awarded $664,754 to seven entities to implement watershed management projects. The funding will be used for projects that enhance water conservation, improve water quality and ecological resilience, reduce water conflicts, and advance goals related to water quality and quantity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Member of both the Oversight and Appropriations Committees, sent a letter urging Mick Mulvaney, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Today the Finance Committee will examine the president’s trade agenda. In my view, the trade agenda ought to be focused on creating more high-skill, high-wage middle-class jobs right here in the United States -- red, white and blue jobs. That means aggressively going after trade cheats to make sure our U.S. workers are competing on a level playing field, and it means opening up new markets for the Oregon brand and the American brand.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The managing partner of a Waltham-based investment advisory firm was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a securities fraud scheme known as “cherry-picking" that netted over $1.3 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved new daily fees for overnight camping in developed campgrounds in the Eastern Sierra. The new fees will go into effect on July 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Lawrence woman who pleaded guilty to forging her ex-husband’s signature on official documents when she fled to Europe with her daughters was sentenced Tuesday to three years on probation including six months home confinement, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been convicted in federal court of illegally possessing PCP and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that HOLLYWOOD EAST d/b/a EAST BUFFET and GRAND BUFFET, INC. were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to Illegal Harboring of Aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Lie resulted in the defendant receiving disability compensation for PTSD for overseas deployment that never happened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL KLEIN, the former treasurer of the Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department (“MVFD"), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel to 77 months in prison for wire fraud, subscription to false tax returns, obstruction of the grand jury, and false statement charges arising out of his embezzlement of more than $5.6 million from the MVFD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Nicholas Blake Cason, age 28, of Anderson, South Carolina, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison today by United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain. Cason previously entered a guilty plea in federal court on July 21, 2016, for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. delivered guilty verdicts yesterday against two former executives of Swisher Hygiene, Inc. (Swisher), for their respective roles in a securities fraud conspiracy carried out at Swisher throughout fiscal year 2011, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Another defendant headed to prison as the result of investigation that has led to multiple convictions.
