News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The founders and principals of Inofin Inc., a shuttered motor vehicle finance company based in Rockland, Mass., were sentenced today on fraud charges in connection with soliciting investments that resulted in losses of over $11 million to investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former supervisory deputy jailer at the Kentucky River Regional Jail has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release related to his role in an unprovoked violent assault of a detainee who was being held at the jail, and for subsequently covering up the beating.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for international parental kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Josiah Leach, 19, of South Burlington, Vermont, appeared today before the Honorable Geoffrey W. Crawford and entered a plea of guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with transmitting threats in interstate commerce.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Dr. Jack Michel, Owner of the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC, the Florida nursing home that lost 14 residents in the wake of Hurricane Irma, after the facility’s air conditioning failed. The letter requests a detailed briefing and documents from the owner of the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Two people from Cleveland were indicted for a case involving the straw purchase of a firearm for a felon, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Trevor Velinor.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on Secretary DeVos’ decision to further delay the effective date of the “borrower defense" rule for another two years, which provides...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Acting Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Panagiota Loukisas, 57, of North York, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to bank fraud before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Dr. Jack Michel, Owner of the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC, the Florida nursing home that lost 14 residents in the wake of Hurricane Irma, after the facility’s air conditioning failed. The letter requests a detailed briefing and documents from the owner of the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: 16 Defendants Prosecuted in Initiative Led by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces today that Total Lab Care, LLC, a toxicology laboratory based in Jacksonville, Florida, has agreed to pay the government $212,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. In addition, the company agreed not to participate in any federal healthcare programs in the future.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $20 million in funding for projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER). MEITNER projects seek to identify...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant Told Police She Repeatedly Hit Victim With a Baseball Bat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Harvey Peake, 61, of Canada, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Anthony Johnson (52, Jacksonville) guilty of nine counts of aggravated identity theft, nine counts of bank fraud, seven counts of false representation of a Social Security number, and three...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Two people from Cleveland were indicted for a case involving the straw purchase of a firearm for a felon, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Trevor Velinor.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A collection of ancient Roman artifacts were repatriated Friday to Italy following a multiagency investigation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Christian M. Domenech, 24, of West Warwick, was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for his participation in a conspiracy to traffic heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, and for bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Five San Diego Bank Robberies in Two Weeks.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va - Witness the power of field artillery that defended the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry in 1862. Join living history staff and volunteers at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29 for Under Fire: Hold the High Ground, 1862.
