News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Two film producers and a former Wells Fargo Bank employee arrested on fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a scheme to steal money from investors and producers seeking financing for motion pictures and theater performances.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the National Park Service announced $1.17 million in Battlefield Preservation Planning Grants for 16 battlefields across 10 states. Grants will help preserve endangered battlefields representing more than 500 years of American history. Historians and preservationists will use these funds to assist in research, documentation, and interpretive planning.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Victor Ehlers Dealt Methamphetamine, and Possessed a Machinegun and Silencers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: In response to current extreme fire danger on the Kenai Peninsula, effective immediately and until further notice, all open fires are prohibited in Kenai Peninsula State Parks, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Chugach National Forest lands on the Kenai Peninsula. Use of cooking stoves and gas grills is allowed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that QIYON REED, also known as “Quiyon Reed" and “Gutter," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 92 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm and drug offenses, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration this week announced the conclusion of Operation Crystal Mountain, a sweeping enforcement action spanning three states. DEA special agents, working closely with their state and local counterparts throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, and West...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Michael Pizarro Had Previously Been Convicted of a Similar Offense and Continued to Perpetrate the Scheme even after his Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeffrey Abney, age 29, of Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to seven years’ imprisonment and three years on supervised release for distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Administrator Carmen Rottenberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced that MEMET BEQIRI, also known as Matt Beqiri, 32, of Tolland, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a charge related to his meat processing business’s falsification of numerous E. coli test results.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Eric Lin, 35, of Clarksburg, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Seattle, Washington, after being charged with Making Threatening Communications, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c) via a criminal complaint filed in Miami. Lin made his initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme will join U.S. Department of Justice officials in New Buffalo, Mich., this week for a two-day consultation with tribal leaders on violence against women.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Midwest Excavating LLC for exposing employees to trench cave-in hazards at a jobsite in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company faces penalties of $58,343.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Lawrence Stanley Coops, 34, of Sacaton, Ariz., a was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to two and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Coops previously pleaded guilty to Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: A telemarketer was sentenced to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release today for his role in a $10 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Kansas bank executive was found guilty by a federal jury yesterday for his participation in a bank fraud scheme to obtain a $15 million construction loan for certain bank customers based upon false and fraudulent representations. The loan was shared among 26 Kansas banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony Allee, and Tashira Allee, both of Medina, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced Darrell Eugene Johnson on Aug. 15, 2019 to 262 months confinement for conspiracy to distribute and manufacture methamphetamine, possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Check Cashing Scams.
