News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Frank “Cadillac" Salemme, a former boss of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), was arrested today and charged with murder of a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: David Darnell Brown aka “Young Buck," 35, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., admitted violating the conditions of his supervised release and probation in two federal felony cases today. He was sentenced to seven months in prison for those violations and was immediately taken into custody, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the former chief financial officer of an Alabama non-profit health clinic for the poor and homeless to 17 years in prison for a complicated scheme to defraud millions of dollars from two non-profit health clinics and the federal government health agencies that provided most of their funding, and for a separate scheme to defraud a life insurance company that involved identity theft against a physician.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: What: Dedication Ceremony for the Allée TreesThe recently planted Allée trees will be dedicated in a brief ceremony at the Flight 93 Center. The trees are planted on the Allée, the walkway which circles the impact site of Flight 93. The trees, red maples, were donated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced an IRS employee to nine years and two months in prison for using her access to taxpayer information to lead a complex, multi-year, $1 million stolen identity refund scheme involving hundreds of victims, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that two Vermont men pled guilty on June 30, 2016 in U.S. District Court in Rutland to information charging them with Class A Misdemeanors relating to the introduction of misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce. AADCO Medical, Inc., a medical device supply company operating out of Randolph, has additionally pled guilty to the same charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Aug. 10, 2016, Charlene Mae Corona, 40, Crookston Minn., was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 9 years in federal prison for two counts of Bank Robbery. Judge Erickson also ordered that Corona pay $21,890.26 in restitution, serve 3 years supervised release, and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Scott Arlis Thomas, 42, of Caldwell, Idaho, made an initial appearance today for the crimes of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. A federal grand jury indicted Thomas on July 14, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced RANDY LYNCH, 50, of Hollister, North Carolina, to 96 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. LYNCH previously pled guilty to this charge on November 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: An Ontario man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to charges related to the sexual exploitation of two minor girls, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Scranton, Pennsylvania - The National Park Service invites visitors of all ages to join in the celebration of its 100th birthday throughout the month of August. With special events across the country, and free admission to all 412 national parks from August 25 through Aug. 28, the NPS is encouraging everyone to #FindYourPark / #EncuentraTuParque for the centennial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Alleged to have swindled friends and acquaintances out of nearly $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Reginald Chaney, a/k/a “Reggie," 21, of East Providence, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to transport minors for the purpose of sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin; Matthew...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former teacher at St. Elizabeth High School in St. Elizabeth, Mo., was sentenced in federal court distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of DANA LEE COBENAIS, 24, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, for aggravated sexual abuse. Following a three-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle, a jury on Nov. 19, 2015 found COBENAIS guilty. COBENAIS was sentenced today before Judge Kyle in Duluth, Minn. to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Hurricane man was sentenced today to a total of nine years in federal prison: seven years for a federal arson crime followed by a consecutive sentence of two years for an unrelated federal witness tampering crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmie Arnold Harper...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Raymond P. Baker, age 37, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in December 2015 of participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Atlanta man was sentenced today to a year in federal prison and ordered to pay almost $17,000 in restitution for his role in a mail theft and counterfeit check cashing conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. DeAndre Smith, 23, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit postal theft and making and uttering counterfeit securities.
