News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Maryland Real Estate Flipper Sentenced To Prison for Obstructing IRS and Failing to File Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A former employee of the United States Postal Service was sentenced yesterday in federal court for stealing items from the mail, including cash, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL S. WRIGHT pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to commodities fraud in connection with WRIGHT’s operation of an investment fund, Wright Time Capital Group (“WTCG").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim stated: “As a unanimous jury found today, Scott Tucker and Timothy Muir targeted and exploited millions of struggling, everyday Americans by charging them illegally high interest rates on payday loans, as much as 700 percent. Tucker and Muir sought to get away...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: 80 of 103 Federal Defendants Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative have Pleaded Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Anthony J. Fountain, 23, of Pensacola, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on July 20 to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of distributing methamphetamine. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: He Was Previously Removed from the USA to Guatemala in 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Democratic Forum on “Addressing the Long-Term Effects of Football-Related Brain Injuries:"
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. (Oct. 13, 2017) Work on the Generals Highway Construction Project in Sequoia National Park is progressing. This project began in mid-June and is underway for two construction seasons. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is reconstructing a segment of the Generals Highway between Amphitheater Point Overlook and Crystal Cave Road (Deer Ridge to Eleven Range).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Jennings man pleaded guilty Wednesday to posting nude photos online and threatening to post more photos of a female victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and a Euclid man were indicted for a conspiracy in which they received more than two kilograms of methamphetamine from California, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricanes Irma and Maria damage and response. San Juan, P.R. - The NPS Eastern Incident Management Team (EIMT) has begun the process to shift management of hurricane recovery for the Caribbean parks to the bureau’s Pacific West IMT. The NPS continues its effort to stabilize...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the below statement after the IRS’ decision to temporarily suspend its $7.25 million contract with Equifax.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the below statement after the IRS’ decision to temporarily suspend its $7.25 million contract with Equifax.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its response in support of the City of Seattle’s “Motion to Declare It in Full and Effective Compliance with the Consent Decree." The United States concludes that the City has met its obligations under the first phase of the Consent Decree based on (1) the...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, NM - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District is hosting three public meetings to discuss the management and use of public lands, with a focus on the Robledo, Las Uvas, Doña Ana, Potrillo and Organ Mountains. The meetings will be held on Oct. 26, 27 and 28, in Las Cruces and Anthony, NM and El Paso, Texas, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Three South Shore men pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to their roles in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that First Coast Cardiovascular Institute, P.A. (“FCCI") has agreed to pay $448,821.58 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly delaying repayment of more than $175,000 in overpayments owed to Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Victim Was Assaulted in Northeast Washington While Walking to Work in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Damien Anthony Jerome, a/k/a "Dey-Dey", 31, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Oct. 12, 2017, for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Jerome was arrested in Cheyenne, ...
