News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2019, Jayson Lee Yazzie, 40, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 216 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Yazzie had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Savannah Galvan, 30, of Philadelphia, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to embezzlement for her role in the unauthorized use of a tribal-issued fuel credit card to purchase fuel for her personal use, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2019, Jayson Lee Yazzie, 40, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 216 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Yazzie had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced their intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute: Cybersecurity in Energy Efficient Manufacturing.".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) yesterday introduced the Transition Team Ethics Improvement Act to enhance the ethics requirements that govern presidential transitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Ramon De Leon-Pineda, age 34, of West Hazelton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on February 5, 2019, to 188 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Ahmaad Ali, 24, St. Louis, pleaded guilty to carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence and robbery charges. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White and set sentencing for May 8, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a recent letter from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced plans to double its voluntary grants to the U.S. Center for SafeSport, the entity tasked with investigating claims of abuse and sexual misconduct raised by athletes. The...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered Hermitage Club Realty LLC - a real estate company based in Wilmington, Vermont - to pay a former employee $22,693 in back pay and bonuses with interest, and $20,000 in compensatory damages.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Charles A. "Chuck" Jones, the part owner of two now-dissolved technology companies, Technology Associates, Inc. and Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., and Mark J. Whitaker of Murray, Kentucky, were indicted on federal criminal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge James Moody, Jr. today sentenced Taurence Creary (47, Tampa) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy, receipt of stolen government property, and aggravated identity theft. Creary had pleaded guilty on April 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: A Cuban citizen residing in Miami, Florida, was arrested on Feb. 5, by federal agents after being indicted on one count of making false statements in an immigration document.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly possessed files depicting the rape of children as young as five-years-old.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service has selected Lake Roosevelt Vacations, Inc., to provide marina services in Kettle Falls at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., day care operator was sentenced in federal court today for a scheme to take the infant daughter of a client to Arkansas to be adopted by another couple.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Greenway Health LLC (Greenway), a Tampa, Florida-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software, will pay $57.25 million to resolve allegations in a complaint filed by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that Greenway caused its users to submit false claims to the government...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH--Immediately following the end of the government shutdown, National Park Service (NPS) personnel went to Isle Royale to prepare for a potential translocation of wolves from Canada and the 61st annual wolf/moose population monitoring. The extreme cold and weather conditions prevented any successful translocation of wolves from Ontario last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Jackson, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 108 months incarceration for his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to an inquiry from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services indicated that the National Institutes of Health has recently referred for investigation a dozen allegations of noncompliance related...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield yesterday in connection with various fraud schemes.
