News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside man who pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a stolen handgun has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following joint statement today after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision in Columbia University regarding unionization of graduate students...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMAL SMALLS was sentenced today to 55 years in prison for the July 26, 2012, drug-related murder of Doneil White; leading a narcotics trafficking conspiracy that distributed powder cocaine, crack cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GIORDIO COSENZA, age 28, of Gretna, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with distributing images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Kevin Wayne Taylor (39), a resident of Phenix City, Alabama and former Lee County Deputy Sheriff, was arrested today for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND - Joseph Edward Conner pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland yesterday to possessing with the intent to distribute over four pounds of crystal methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: PATTERSON, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and Del Puerto Water District (District) invite the media to a groundbreaking event for the North Valley Regional Recycled
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Isaac Lanier Avant, of Arlington, who is currently employed as a staffer by the U.S. House of Representatives, has been charged with five counts of willfully failing to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired Wichita police lieutenant pleaded guilty Tuesday to filing false documents so he would be paid $56,400 for providing armed engagement training for law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series report, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, finds that sea-level rise, ocean acidification, ocean warming, and other climate-related changes are expected to significantly affect the monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stephen A. Monaco, D.P.M., 59, of Broomall PA pleaded guilty to health care fraud today for perpetrating a $5 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and four private victim insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Used Wire Communications To Defraud Multiple Victims Of Over $500,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey asking for information related to unauthorized individuals gaining access to classified information due to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announces that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Lona Lee Colhoff who was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and one count of attempted witness tampering. The district court sentenced Colhoff to concurrent 45-month sentences for each conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Genaro Anguiar-Guizar has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison for his leadership role in a cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. Anguiar-Guizar is the last of five defendants to be convicted and sentenced for charges including conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Wallen Olrun, Jr., 30, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to five years in prison, to be followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Olrun pleaded guilty to the charge on March 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Walter Crummy, a former officer and owner of MCC Construction Company (MCC), pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiring to commit wire fraud. Crummy also agreed to pay forfeiture in the amount of $105,618.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Ukrainian man who posed as a high school student in Harrisburg and was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 25, 2016, for passport fraud and social security fraud plead guilty today to both charges before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Release Date: Aug. 24, 2016. Contact: Brooke Nevitt, Park Ranger. Email address: e-mail us. Phone: 670-234-7207, Ext 2020. American Memorial Park Invites Everyone to #FindYourPark during the Centennial Birthday Month. Special Events in Saipan and Across the U.S. Will Celebrate the National Park Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired Wichita police lieutenant pleaded guilty Tuesday to filing false documents so he would be paid $56,400 for providing armed engagement training for law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
