News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has pleaded guilty plea to a one count criminal information charging him with wire fraud in connection with the theft of approximately $810,000 from his former employer, Masterson Farms and Kenneth Masterson. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months in jail and ordered to make $1,739,676.71 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently resumed exhuming buried Cold War waste at the Accelerated Retrieval Project (ARP) VIII facility at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAQUAN PATTERSON-GREENE, 22, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Hendricus Tyronyae Parker, 38, of Jackson, pled guilty Friday before U.S. Chief District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM recently appointed two new members and reappointed three others to its Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board (CAB).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Atif Babar Malik, age 48, of Germantown, Maryland, today to eight years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The sentence was imposed for his trial conviction on 26 counts arising from two criminal schemes...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has indicted Jany Leveille, 35, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, on firearms and conspiracy charges, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Maria Mascio, 62, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution for executing a decade-long health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced that, late yesterday, Johnny Obrian Leach, 31, of Gastonia, N.C. was sentenced to 180 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a tutoring and mentoring business and a former employee of the District of Columbia Public Schools were sentenced today to 52 weekends in jail, to be followed by 270 days of home confinement, for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently bill the school system more than $200,000 for services that they falsely claimed had been provided to students with special needs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $1.375 million contract to Logan Simpson of Tempe, Arizona, for five years of management support of the cultural resources program associated with the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Bobby Roy Justice, 67, of Dandridge, Tennessee, and formerly of Pikeville, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiring to distribute oxycodone pills. Justice was also ordered to pay a $60,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man was arrested today and charged with bribing a United States Navy contracting officer on two occasions in connection with federal construction projects in Singapore.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse gather on or about Sept. 13, 2018, within and outside the northern portion of the Eagle Herd Management Area located in Lincoln County, as there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the area. The BLM plans to gather and remove approximately 300 excess wild horses using the helicopter gather method.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted today’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the agency is planning to roll back the Obama era methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Cristyne Denise Gilleland, 41, of Broken Arrow, pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud involving the embezzlement of more than $2.75 million from an Inola business and to signing a false tax return.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launch of the Eureka prize competition to spur the development of technology applications to improve Alzheimer’s care, which was established as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. Up to $400,000 in cash prizes may be awarded to teams or individuals that participate in the challenge...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House and Senate Committee leaders today announced a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on comprehensive water resources infrastructure legislation, which could be considered on the House floor later this week.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), announced a markup for Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
