News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail, a $7,500 fine, and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $6,000 on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail, a $7,500 fine, and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $6,000 on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PATRICIA BADDELEY MEEHAN, 51, of Ellington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to two months of imprisonment and two additional years of supervised release for violating the terms and conditions of her supervised release that followed a federal conviction in 2010.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Anthony Darnell Boyd, Jr., a/k/a Tony Fortune, Tone Tone, Big Tony, Jermaine Jefferson, and Paul Dreber, age 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, with two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms. The indictment...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PATRICIA BADDELEY MEEHAN, 51, of Ellington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to two months of imprisonment and two additional years of supervised release for violating the terms and conditions of her supervised release that followed a federal conviction in 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Big Bend National Park will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service by conducting special Centennial activities and waiving park entrance frees from Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday, August 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JARED GALANIS pled guilty today to concealing a conspiracy to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defraud the shareholders of that company. GALANIS pled guilty to misprision of a felony before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Autry State Prison inmate Reginald Perkins has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for laundering $1 million in fraud proceeds arising from a “jury duty" telemarketing scam conducted by inmates at Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Tyler Johnson Admits To Conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man caught with drugs and loaded handgun pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Michael Brooks Burgess, 46, entered his guilty plea to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: FBI and Roswell Police Department Seek Scruffy-Looking Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Obed Wild & Scenic River, in keeping with requirements outlined under National Park Service management policies, Director’s Order 41, and the 1995 General Management Plan has recently begun the process of conducting a Wilderness Eligibility Assessment on lands within the park boundaries.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Autry State Prison inmate Reginald Perkins has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for laundering $1 million in fraud proceeds arising from a “jury duty" telemarketing scam conducted by inmates at Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) prisons.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin J. Wick, 43, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 312 months in prison for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minor victims, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin J. Wick, 43, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 312 months in prison for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minor victims, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will hold a meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee on Sept. 7-9, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: I am committed to overhauling our tax system to make it simpler, fairer, and more efficient. I am also committed to promoting job growth at home and improving the country’s economic competitiveness abroad. I am concerned that the Treasury Department’s proposed debt-equity regulations...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JARED GALANIS pled guilty today to concealing a conspiracy to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defraud the shareholders of that company. GALANIS pled guilty to misprision of a felony before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Summer Booher and Stacey Doane Conspired with others to Trafficking Meth into SW Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joseph Dinapoli, 27, of Cushing, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.