News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - On Saturday, June 2, the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections - Silver State Industries are hosting a saddle-trained wild horse and halter-trained wild burro adoption at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center located at 1721 Snyder Avenue, south of Carson City...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Central Falls man arrested during a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation in Central Falls was arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Providence on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Threats Resulted in Modified Lockdown for All Schools in Charlottesville.
By Homeland Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A Bronx man was arrested yesterday after investigation initiated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York’s Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST). The investigation, worked by taskforce members from the New York City Police...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) in collaboration with the National Park Service will begin resurfacing the Piney Branch Parkway on Tuesday, May 29.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The chief executive officer of a publicly traded microcap company was convicted at trial for orchestrating a multi-million securities fraud scheme using false reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - During the week of May 21, 2018, five defendants in an east Tennessee methamphetamine (meth) conspiracy were sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior, U.S. District Court Judge to serve time in federal prison. James Dwayne Byington, 50, Rogersville, Tennessee, was sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Commerce launched a Section 232 investigation into imports of automobiles, trucks and automotive parts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyler Raj Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles, Calif., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on two counts of making hoax bomb threats, for a threat that caused an evacuation of a high-profile Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing, and another threat eight days later that that targeted FBI headquarters.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $23.85 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to Medicare patients through a purportedly independent charitable foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Charges Also Announced This Week in Related Matter in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Conspiracy Involved Target Department Store’s REDcard Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gerald Pambianco, age 29, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, and Derek Spaide, age 26, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, were indicted on May 22, 2018, by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAURICE SHARPE, 46, of Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to five years of probation for committing health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Profited By Selling To Investors Worthless Stock of ForceField Energy Inc., a Company That Purported To Be a Distributor and Provider of LED Lighting Products.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Statewide, Idaho - As school gets out and families start their road trips this holiday weekend, fire managers across Idaho are asking you to take precautions when you embark on that epic summer vacation!
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, United States District Judge, Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CEDRICK JERMAINE WILLIAMS, 24, of Clayton, North Carolina, to 120 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an officer of the U.S. Army has been charged for allegedly defrauding insurance providers to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent insurance payments.
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of bipartisan legislation to reform Congress’ outdated policies on sexual assault and harassment.
