News published on Federal Newswire in August 2016

News from August 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.


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.


Ellington Woman Sentenced to Additional Prison Time for Violating Supervised Release

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.


Capitol Heights Man Facing Gun Charges; He and Three Co-Defendants Charged with Conspiring to Tamper with Evidence and Obstruct a Federal Investigation

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...


Ellington Woman Sentenced to Additional Prison Time for Violating Supervised Release

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.


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.


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.


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.


News Release: Tyler Johnson Admits To Conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine.


Charleston Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Gun Crime

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.


FBI and Roswell Police Department Seek Scruffy-Looking Bank Robber

News Release: FBI and Roswell Police Department Seek Scruffy-Looking Bank Robber.


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.


Inmate Sentenced for Operating a Fake Jury Duty Money Laundering Scheme from Georgia State Prison

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.


Wheeling man sentenced for transporting minors to engage in illicit sexual conduct

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.


Wheeling Man Sentenced for Transporting Minors to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct

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.


OSHA National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health schedulesfinal meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee

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.


Hatch Calls on Treasury to Re-Propose Debt-Equity Rules

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...


Jared Galanis Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Misprision Of A Felony

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.


News Release: Summer Booher and Stacey Doane Conspired with others to Trafficking Meth into SW Virginia.


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.