News from April 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Conviction is Part of Broader Plan to Fight Flow of Meth into Greater Charlottesville.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Carlos Rodgers, age 23, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty late yesterday to robbing three stores in Baltimore.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Scott A. Beatty Charged with Defrauding Nearly 50 Individual Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Madrid Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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).

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Twentynine Palms, CA- Joshua Tree National Park-.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
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.