News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland Heights woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leading a $8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy in which participants provided forged documents and fraudulent forms to bill for services that were not provided, law enforcement officials said.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange, EM Tribal Affairs Lead Brandt Petrasek, DOE Office of Legacy Management Director Carmelo Melendez, and Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Ray Furstenau talk with State and Tribal Government Working Group Tribal leaders and representatives at this month's EM Tribal Leader Dialogue in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Join us for a special Memorial Day Weekend evening program at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 27, at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. Rocky Mountain National Park is honored to have the Trident Winds Woodwind Trio from the Navy Band Northwest perform.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that SAMUEL NOLAN DOTY, age 47, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2), punishable by 10 to 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that four defendants were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with operating an illegal narcotics trafficking ring in the Elmira, NY area. Robert Ian Thatcher, 29, Maximillian Sams, 30, Dwayne Banks, 29, all of Elmira...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, former North Carolina Superior Court Judge ARNOLD OGDEN JONES, II was sentenced to 2 years’ probation, fined $5,000.00, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. On March 16, 2017 JONES pled guilty to Promising and Paying Gratuities to a Public Official.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Sal Mansy, 41, of Detroit, Michigan, and TV TOYZ, LLC, a Michigan corporation, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to operating an unlicensed money service business.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former Shelby County resident will spend six months in federal prison for illegally accessing email and cloud storage accounts of more than 50 women to obtain personal data, including explicit photographs, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Fifteen men (12 from St. Louis and 3 from Arizona) were indicted in St. Louis on charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base (“crack" cocaine).
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - A Mexican national wanted in his native country for sex trafficking minors was handed over to Mexican law enforcement officials Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “IRS Reform: Lessons Learned from the National Taxpayer Advocate" on Friday, May 19, 2017 at 9:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to robbing a coin and jewelry store while pointing a gun at the elderly store owner and a customer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) management and operations contractor earned approximately 84 percent of the available fee for fiscal 2016, according to a from the EM Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MAY 17 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Clarence Bell, also known as “Solo," 21, of West Haven, waived his right to be indicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Three-Year Investigation Leads to Federal Charges against 44 Defendants, including nearly Three Dozen Named in Racketeering Indictment Targeting Gang Leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a nearly three-year investigation, federal, state and local law enforcement authorities this morning took into custody a total of 21 members and associates of Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal street gang commonly called MS-13 that was formed in Los Angeles about 30 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, former North Carolina Superior Court Judge ARNOLD OGDEN JONES, II was sentenced to 2 years’ probation, fined $5,000.00, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. On March 16, 2017 JONES pled guilty to Promising and Paying Gratuities to a Public Official.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal jury convicted a Hudson County, New Jersey, man Tuesday of coercing a minor family member to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he photographed the abuse. The sentencing follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 17, 2017, Trudy E. Thomsenheather Jean Reekr, a 32 year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 190 months in prison for transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware announced today that defendant Bob Bennett pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
