News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Cedar City Field Office will begin collecting modest fees for some recreation sites on Oct. 1, helping to support facility maintenance and outdoor recreation programs in Iron and Beaver counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brandi Dawn Singleton, of Burnsville, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have issued subpoenas for documents in their bipartisan probe of syndicated conservation-easement transactions. Generally, conservation easements are a legitimate tax tool to promote land conservation, but some of them in recent years may have allowed some taxpayers to profit from gaming the law-depriving the government of billions in revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Seth Ryan Mose, a 35-year-old resident of Midland, Michigan, was sentenced on Sept. 12, 2019, to 290 months in federal prison for one count of Distribution and Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Coercion and Enticement of a Minor, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider. Schneider was joined in the announcement by Rainer S. Drolshagen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: On Sept. 13, 2019, a former salesman for Copans Motorsports d/b/a Champion Porsche, Shiraaz Sookralli, 45, of Plantation, pled guilty for leading a fraud scheme in which he entered into bogus sales orders for the sale of exotic Porsche models to over 30 customers throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Four Regional Law Enforcement Professionals Graduate from 277th FBI National Academy Class.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former corrections officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute facility in Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to smuggle Suboxone strips into the facility for an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 39-year-old Mexican national has been sentenced for attacking a Border Patrol (BP) agent with a flashlight, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Melecio Lopez-Hernandez pleaded guilty April 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Angelo D’Alessandro, 55, of Shelby Township, was sentenced today to 24 months probation and ordered to pay $73,000 in restitution, as well as a $5,000 fine, after having pleaded guilty to covering up co-defendant Gary Tenaglia’s efforts to defraud the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) of over $1.5 million in 2012 and 2013, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - September marks back to school, and is an appropriate time to highlight the work the U.S. Attorney’s Office and its Project Safe Childhood partners are doing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute sexual predators, abusers, and pornographers who target children. Led by the U.S. Attorneys...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former treasurer for the city of Fontana in Miami County, Kan., was sentenced Monday to 12 months and a day in prison for embezzlement, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice established the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when billions of dollars in federal disaster relief poured into the Gulf Coast region, which opened opportunities for criminals to exploit people during vulnerable times.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
Release: DUBUQUE -The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will open a temporary TSA Pre✓® enrollment center at the Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ) from Monday, October 21 - Friday, October 25.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Pichai: We write regarding an apparent flaw in Google’s mapping products that poses a serious threat of misdirecting women seeking important health care. According to media reports[1] from as early as 2018[2], there are certain situations where Google search and Google maps seem to mislead...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: The Battle Mountain District Bureau of Land Management is selling firewood cutting permits, for personal use, at two different locations. These locations are the BLM's Battle Mountain District Office (50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV), and Tonopah Field Office (1553 Main Street, Tonopah, NV). Both of these offices are open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and they are willing to do transactions over the phone.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument invites you to help clear park trails on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, for our National Public Lands Day event. Fort Pulaski’s trail system provides various recreational opportunities for visitors- from the casual hiker to the trail biker. Efforts during this event will focus on clearing and cleaning up the trails to keep them in good, usable condition for park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - James Dorsey, a/k/a Boosey, Boosey Boo, and Bad Ass, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a commercial robbery, which resulted in the death of 18-year-old Markel Benson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tony J. Liesenfeld, age 49, of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, was charged on Sept. 13, 2019 in a felony information with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Tonya Lewis, a 39 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was charged in a two Count Indictment with Theft of Government Funds (Count One) and Aggravated Identity Theft (Count Two). The Indictment alleges that Lewis stole approximately $95,689.44 from HUD that was entrusted to the Selma Housing Authority and that she stole the identity of another person to obtain a credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Birch, age 46, of Allentown, pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2019 to conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
