News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Exemplary Behavior, LLC, based in Hendersonville, Tenn., and its principal, Andre Anderson, BCBA, have agreed to pay $20,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Exemplary Behavior also operates an office in Clarksville, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that on Thursday, March 30, 2017, Arnold Wesley Flowers, II, 42, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 75 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his convictions for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of firearms, and 12 counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Co-Conspirator and Bank Officer Previously Pleaded Guilty; Created Phony Escrow Accounts, Bank Statements, Cashier’s Checks and Other Documents to Obtain a Loan to Finance a Movie.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Field Division and Vernon Keenan, Director of the Georgia Bureau of (GBI), announced today that on March 29, 2017, DEA Atlanta gleaned information about a load of Crystal Methamphetamine, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Timothy James Nelson, 36, of Navarre, Florida, has pled guilty to theft of government funds. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that on Thursday, March 30, 2017, Arnold Wesley Flowers, II, 42, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 75 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his convictions for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of firearms, and 12 counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State Police, and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced the seizure of 55 kilograms of (121 lbs.) from a fictitious jewelry business operating in the Diamond District of New York City.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Southern Melon Distributors Inc., Atlanta, Ga., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Portage, Inc., contractor for EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, met the majority of its performance goals for fiscal year 2016, earning more than $1 million, or 72 percent, of the nearly $1.5 million available award fee, and scoring an overall rating of “good" for the evaluation period.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated that the Department of Justice will pursue criminal charges to curb the number of alleged leaks of classified information from within the government. The statement raises questions about the scope of the Attorney General’s recusal from matters related to the presidential campaigns, and whether that recusal continues to apply to investigation of the many contacts between the Trump campaign and Putin’s Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Adrian Abonce, 46, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with production, distribution, and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lewis Jones, of Waynesboro, Virginia, was convicted today for methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Page, Ariz.-The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service invites the media to attend the ceremony to celebrate the opening of the new educational and interactive displays at the Carl Hayden Visitors Center at Glen Canyon Dam April 4, 2017. Officials from Department of the Interior, Reclamation, National Park Service and the City of Page will join us to mark the occasion.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: MADISON CO, MS - On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 8:53 a.m., Amy Biernat (44), of Madison, MS, was riding her bicycle north on the Parkway when she was struck by a white Nissan sedan. Because of the impact, Biernat suffered several injuries and was transported to the Baptist Hospital. The Nissan did not stop and was later found abandoned approximately 1.5 miles north along the Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - David Odom, age 53, of Chicago, Illinois pleaded guilty today to a wire fraud conspiracy arising from a scheme to defraud lenders from February to August 2011 in order to obtain financing for a movie. Co-conspirator Darryl Wesley Clements, age 50, of Detroit, Michigan, previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. Rodney Patrick Dunn, age 40, of Elkridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty to receipt of a bribe by a bank official.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two more Columbia, Mo., men have been charged in federal court, in separate but related cases, in relation to a prostitution operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Branchburg, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for his role in a scheme to produce sexually explicit images of children through a website he operated from his home computer, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Wilmington has returned indictments in five unrelated cases charging JAMES BOSTIC, age 45, MAURICE KNIGHT, age 38, MICHAEL MARSHALL, age 40, KAVIN DATRON WILLIAMS...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Forty Years After Theft, Stolen Norman Rockwell Painting Recovered and Returned to Owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that ALVIN SANTOS PADUA, age 38, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today by Senior Judge Alex R. Munson, to 87 months imprisonment for attempted possession of 245 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment fee.
