News published on Federal Newswire in April 2016

News from April 2016


SENTENCIADA UNA RESIDENTE DE ROSEVILLE POR ESTAFA DE MODIFICACIONES DE PRÉSTAMOS Y RESCATES DE EMBARGOS INMOBILIARIOS ORIENTADA A LA COMUNIDAD DE HABLA HISPANA

News Release: SACRAMENTO, California - Ligia Sandoval Spafford (Sandoval), 48 años de edad, y residente de Roseville, fue condenada el jueves por el Juez del Distrito de los Estados Unidos Troy L. Nunley a dos años y tres meses de prisión por una trama que se dirigía a propietarios de viviendas que se encontraban en dificultades económicas, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner. Se le ordenó a Sandoval a que se entregara el 9 de junio de 2016.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nomination of the Honorable Jeffrey A. Rosen to be a Governor, U.S. Postal Service." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A South Carolina man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of sexually exploiting a Kansas girl, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.


News Release: Conviction is Part of Broader Plan to Fight Flow of Meth into Greater Charlottesville.


News Release: Three tax return preparers were charged in a 31-count indictment for unlawfully enriching themselves by submitting false federal income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on behalf of their clients.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Carlos Rodgers, age 23, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty late yesterday to robbing three stores in Baltimore.


Utah Man Arrested And Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Commodities Fraud

News Release: Scott A. Beatty Charged with Defrauding Nearly 50 Individual Investors.


News Release: Madrid Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.


Ontario Oregon Felon Sentenced to 60 Months for Possessing a Firearm

News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On April 19, 2016, Clemente Pineda, 28, of Ontario, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 60 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm. Upon his release from prison, Pineda will be on supervised release for three years.


FY 2016 Funds Amended for Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102)

Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has amended the fiscal year 2016 funds for the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102).


UAS Symposium Broadens Dialogue on Integration

News Release: The FAA held a UAS Symposium in conjunction with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this week to broaden the dialogue with industry and the public on how to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System.


Drug Supplier Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Luis Lugo-Santiago, a/k/a “Papi," and “Andres Galvez," age 41, of New York, New York today to seven years in prison followed by a year of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin, in connection with a drug distribution ring.


News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Jonesville man who worked with his brother, and several others, to submit claims for more than $400,000 of fraudulent tax returns, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.


Levin Floor Statement on IRS Bonuses Bill, H.R. 4890

News Release: “The reason the phones aren’t being answered at the IRS is because the Republican Majority has failed to answer to its responsibility.


Agencies present preliminary concepts for new White House fence during informational presentation to the Commission of Fine Arts

News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The United States Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS) today provided an informational presentation before the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) on preliminary concepts for a new White House fence. The agencies will provide the same informational presentation to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) in May. USSS and NPS will present refined concepts for approval to both commissions later this summer.


News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida -A new National Park Service report shows that nearly 3 million visitors to the National Park Service areas in south Florida spent $227 million last year in surrounding communities. That spending supported over 3,248 jobs in south Florida.


Virginia man pleads guilty to failing to update sex offender registration

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Convicted sex offender Milton Stuart Kendall, Jr., 35, of Roanoke, Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Martinsburg to failing to update his registration status, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.



News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 19, 2016, Nathan Leland Minard, 32, of Knoxville, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 120 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm charge, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Minard was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term and to pay $100 to the Crime Victim’s Fund.


Eight Years In Prison For Youth Organization Leader Who Admitted Sexually Abusing Children, Possessing Images Of Child Sexual Abuse

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey man who admitted sexually abusing children and possessing images of child sexual abuse was sentenced today to 96 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.