News from August 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Collected and Caused Sensitive FBI Information to be Provided to the Chinese Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Allen, South Dakota man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on July 28, 2016 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 102 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Lenexa man pleaded guilty Monday to harassing former girlfriends and business partners by sending them letters on Internal Revenue Service letterhead saying they were under investigation for tax evasion, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Aug. 1, 2016 - Revised on Aug. 1, 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jamel Proctor, 31, of New York City, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. In a separate drug prosecution, Darnell Lamar Anderson, 38, of Huntington, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Cruz Flechita Ramon Soto, 34, of Plummer, Idaho, pleaded guilty Friday to assault resulting in serious bodily injury and use of a firearm during a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Soto was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 17, 2015.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Aug. 1, 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced that he and members of his staff will join law enforcement and community leaders on Tuesday, August 2nd in Bridgeport, Clarksburg, Martinsburg, and Wheeling as part of the annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland will join law enforcement and community leaders on Tuesday, August 2nd at Beckett Field in New Carrollton, Maryland, and Carrollton Park in Frederick, Maryland, as part of the annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -On Saturday and Sunday, August 6 and 7, at the Learning Center of Flight 93 National Memorial, discover the stories of the trooper pilots of the Pennsylvania State Police who responded to the Flight 93 crash site on Sept. 11, 2001. At1 p.m.on both days trooper pilots will share...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in the distribution of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Swifty Athens LLC, doing business as Swifty Car Wash LLC

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Juneau, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Thomas Schopp, 52, resident of Juneau, Alaska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to life imprisonment for production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 102 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) announced today up to $7 million in project funding to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: The Former General Director and Sub-Director of Venezuela’s La Oficina Nacional Antidrogas Allegedly Received Payments from Narcotics Traffickers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Kun Shan Chun, a/k/a “Joey Chun," Provided Sensitive FBI Information to the Chinese Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Sultana Siddiqui, a/k/a Sultana Ahmad, age 56, of North Potomac, Maryland, today to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud arising from an investment...