News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Towanda man was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison for robbing an Arkansas City business at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Belvidere man was sentenced Wednesday on firearms charges by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today opened a civil pattern-or-practice investigation into the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who illegally possessed multiple firearms was sentenced this week to 14 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Yahya A. Abdelhadi, 34, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court this afternoon. Abdelhadi is the former owner of the American Supermarket, a location where Mobile County sheriff’s deputies made controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former union local president was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to federal prison for embezzling from the union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A member of Teamsters Local 25 was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his attempted extortion of a reality television production company in June of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Last week, three Cedar County men were sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine manufacturing charges. Telly Ranzenberger and Brian Hagen were sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 48 months’ imprisonment, respectively. In a separate case, Tracey McGhghy was sentenced to 90 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CARLOS ALEXANDER DAVILA, 23, of Edmond, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge David L. Russell to serve 15 years in federal prison for producing child pornography in connection with a sextortion scheme, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Lamar Sinclair, 33, of Norfolk, was sentenced today to 105 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, four years after the tragic events of Sandy Hook, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a minority staff memo detailing federal support for public health research on gun violence.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as Secretary of the Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Nancy Wicker (803) 929-3000.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 I am pleased that Congress has passed H.R. 6302, a resolution that will raise Secret Service salary caps during presidential election years. Previously, more than a thousand Secret Service employees with protective mission responsibilities ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C., Dec. 14, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Housing Service Administrator Tony Hernandez today visited North Carolina to tour a USDA-funded rental complex and highlight two decades of USDA investments and partnerships to build and renovate affordable rural rental housing for families across the country.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Rules Seek to Ensure Fairness and Protect Rights of Farmers WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) today announced updated regulations to protect the rights of farmers. The Farmer Fair Practices Rules target the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: First Charges Brought By Antitrust Division Involving Generic Drugs Two former senior generic pharmaceutical executives were charged by Information for their roles in conspiracies to fix prices, rig bids and allocate customers for certain generic drugs, the Department of Justice announced today. Separate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Mansour Moghtaderi Zadeh, 56, an Iranian national, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and one year of supervised release for taking part in a conspiracy involving the purchase and shipment of various products, including aviation parts and aviation supplies, from the U.S. to Iran without a license. Zadeh was also ordered to pay a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $69,159.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today that the Justice Department collected more than $15.3 billion in civil and criminal actions in fiscal year (FY) 2016 ending Sept. 30, 2016. The $15,380,130,434 in collections in FY 2016 represents more than five times the approximately $3 billion appropriated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: David Q. Givhan, aka “Premier,” 34, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was convicted late yesterday by a jury of one count of sex trafficking and three counts of interstate transportation for prostitution. The verdict was announced by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the Western District of Kentucky; and Special Agent in Charge Amy S. Hess of the FBI’s Louisville Division.
