News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory A. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Milwaukee residents Kanwar Gill (age: 67), Raviinder Gill (age: 27), and George Nance (age: 59) have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for wire fraud based on a scheme to traffic benefits issued...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today a federal magistrate judge unsealed a superseding indictment charging Brexton Redell Lloyd, 54, of Eagle Springs, with one count of conspiracy and thirteen counts of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, announced Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Wilmington, Del. - The United States has intervened in a lawsuit against Orthopaedic and Neuro Imaging LLC (ONI), and the company's owner, Richard Pfarr, that alleges they submitted false claims for Medicare reimbursement. The announcement was made today by Acting United States Attorney David C. Weiss of the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced today that general contractor J.A. McDonald, Inc. (“JAM"), headquartered in Lyndon Center, Vermont, and JAM owner and president, Eric Boyden, have paid $270,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that JAM violated the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: In El Paso this afternoon, U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne T. Berton ordered 36 year-old Martin Arody Sanchez Aguirre held without bond pending trial on federal drug trafficking charges. Sanchez Aguirre is one of five individuals indicted earlier this month for trafficking in cocaine and heroin throughout...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today gave the following speech responding to false claims made by the president, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about Trump’s tax plan. A link to Ranking Member Wyden’s speech can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Sept. 26, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted David Harris Lavine, age 58, of Rockville, Maryland, on charges of theft of bank funds by a bank officer and bank fraud and Lavine and Charles L. Tobias, age 56, Potomac, Maryland for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: FBI and DEA Educating the Community with Documentary Film Addressing Heroin/Prescription Drug Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Henry Jeremy Lewis of Mobile was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Lewis’ sentencing followed entry of a June 2017 guilty plea to a charge of prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Lewis was previously convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm in 2012 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against C & D Produce Outlet Inc.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) Manager Kevin Smith retires at the end of this month after more than 40 years of federal service, including 13 with EM and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Deodoro Suchite-Garcia, a/k/a “Teodoro Susachete-Garcia," of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Aug. 25, 2017, Suchite-Garcia, an alien, and native...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TAMI LEE JOHNSON, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, formerly known as Tami L. Davis, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today for check forgery, in connection with $624,265.01 of embezzlement from a local real estate management company, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former Harrisburg Police official pleaded guilty in federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to charges of conversion of government property and theft from programs receiving government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chair Emeritus of the Committee today announced the Committee’s unanimous approval of their legislation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for supplying heroin and fentanyl to traffickers in Taunton and surrounding communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha (ECS) clique in Chelsea, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy involving the attempted murder of a rival gang member.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SEPT. 28, 2017 - The 2016 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll statistics provide a comprehensive look at the employment of the nation’s state and local governments. The survey provides state and local government data on full- and part-time employment, part-time hours worked, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics by governmental function.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Dellslow, West Virginia woman has admitted to a drug distribution charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Interstate methamphetamine traffickers and local producers face federal and state charges in a series of cases that resulted in the arrests of 31 people in September.
