News published on Federal Newswire in August 2016

News from August 2016


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAMELA MALLORY, 43, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $840,000 from her employer, 360 Federal Credit Union.


Miami Woman Used Counterfeit Credit Cards at Western Pennsylvania Outlet Malls

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the state of Florida has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Leader Of Cheko’s Crew/7th Street Gang Sentenced On Rico Charge For His Role In Four Murders And Seven Attempted Murders

News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Efrain Hildalgo, AKA Cheko, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, was sentenced to 330 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.


News Release: A Carroll County man was sentenced to prison for failing to register as a sex offender, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliott.


Five Members And Associates Of New Jersey Grape Street Crips Indicted For Drug Trafficking, Firearms Possession

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five Newark men associated with the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips were charged today in three separate indictments with drug distribution and firearms offenses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Roswell Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Conviction on Federal Firearms and Drug Trafficking Charges

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Israel Luna, 38, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on firearms and methamphetamine trafficking charges.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, on his conviction of Possession of a Stolen Firearm, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Columbus Gang Members Pleads Guilty to Rackteering, Takes Responsibility for 2 Murders

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lance Reynolds, 33, of Columbus, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of racketeering conspiracy in connection with a case involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.


News Release: BOISE - John Paul Tate, 48, of Caldwell, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Tate was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 8, 2016.


An Optical Method of Sorting Nanoparticles by Size

News Release: NIST scientists have devised and modeled a unique optical method of sorting microscopic and nanoscopic particles by size, with a resolution as fine as 1 nanometer (nm) for particles of similar composition.


Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty

News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Michael McCrary, a tax return preparer who managed a tax preparation business in Fort Worth, Texas, appeared this morning in federal court in Fort Worth, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hal R. Ray, Jr., and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.


News Release: Ways and Means Announces Markup of Health, Tax, and Social Security Legislation.


New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to BP Fraud

News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that GRAEGG L. HOLMES, age 43, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with wire fraud related to the 2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill. According to court documents, HOLMES admitted that he filed...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s July 2016 jobs report...


Federal Jury Finds “Worst of Worst” Offender from Albuquerque Guilty on Carjacking and Firearms Charges

News Release: 40-Year-Old Defendant, Convicted on Federal Armed Career Charge in July 2016, Faces Statutory Mandatory Minimum of 47 Years to Maximum of Life Imprisonment.


News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an employee of the Luzerne County Correctional Facility has been charged in a Criminal Information with violations of federal law.


Managing Director Of Investment Bank Found Guilty Of Insider Trading Charges

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SEAN STEWART, a former Managing Director at an investment advisory firm headquartered in Manhattan, was found guilty of providing inside information to trade and cause another to trade in the securities...


Reclamation Releases Draft EA for Refuge Water Exchange for Tertiary Treated Water

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment analyzing the impacts of approving an exchange of up to 6,000. acre-feet of tertiary treated water for up to 3,000 acre-feet of refuge (or Level 2) water with the San Luis Water District and...


August Grand Jury

News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 12 indictments charging 13 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.


News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced late yesterday Lowney Yohnagalegi Crow, 33, of Cherokee, N.C. to 87 months in prison on charges of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge...