News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a proposed permanent seasonal closure for Goldstrike Canyon and Arizona Hot Spring trails within Lake Mead National Recreation Area for May 15 through Sept. 30 annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $213,000 from Bank of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Roberto Montalvo Laureano, 33, of Moorefield, West Virginia, pled guilty to cocaine trafficking in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Robert W. Fabick, of St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty last week in federal court to misdemeanor charges for creating and using a fraudulent stamp in order to circumvent the lottery draw process at the Duck Creek Waterfowl Draw on the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Stoddard County. Fabick appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Abbie Crites-Leoni at the Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr. U.S. Courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for his plea on March 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, in partnership with other federal agencies, hosted a community roundtable in Dallas last week that focused on religiously-motivated hate violence and hate crimes, protecting places of worship, and ways the federal government can improve its efforts in these critically important areas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | April 5, 2016 BOS 2016-050
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On April 5, 2016, a resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YOANNI SUAREZ, also known as “Cuba," 39, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier and a California man have been charged in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of PCP through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James R. Cheek, age 67, formerly of Douglasville, Georgia, and Herschel J. Breig, Sr., age 68, formerly of Nixa, Missouri, appeared today before United States Magistrate Judge Barry A. Bryant...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today released the following statement in opposition to Canadian Pacific Railway’s proposal to merge with Norfolk Southern...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and move our economy toward clean energy, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Janice Schneider today announced approval of the Soda Mountain Solar Project on public lands managed by the Bureau of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CLARK JAMES PELLEGRIN, JR., age 40, of New Orleans, has been charged in a one-count Bill of Information with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A compliance officer with the Union City Community Development Agency (UCCDA) today admitted that he manipulated the contractor selection process for federally funded residential rehabilitation and sidewalk replacement projects, causing losses of $40,000 to $95,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing to assess Iran’s hostile and illicit behavior since the nuclear deal took effect in January, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, disputed previous Obama administration commitments claiming certain restrictions on Iran would remain in place. Today the committee heard testimony from Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi today accepted the guilty plea of Doorae Shipping Co., LTD, a South Korean maritime operations company, and sentenced the company to pay a fine of $750,000, a community service payment of $200,000, and a term of two years of probation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Grant Hubert Checora, age 23, of Ft. Duchesne, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while within Indian Country in January, will serve 60 months in federal prison. Checora will be on supervised release for 36 months once he finishes his prison sentence. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball imposed the sentence Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has announced that the federal grand jury sitting in Milwaukee has indicted former Milwaukee Police Department Detective Rodolfo Gomez, Jr. (age: 49) for willfully depriving an in-custody subject of his civil right not...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Jassmine Pettaway, 27, of Inglewood, California, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Pettaway was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Oct. 14, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 4, 2016, Jeffery Negus, of Omaha, Nebraska, age 55, and Gregory Negus of Omaha, Nebraska, age 60, were sentenced for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The Honorable Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced both men to a 4 year term of probation. Both men were also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $708,743.21.
