News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County man pleaded guilty today for his role in a kickback scheme, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Chadwick Lusk, 35, of Davin, entered his guilty plea to honest services mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman who owned a home health care business in Basehor, Kan., was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in custody for failing to pay more than $856,000 in federal taxes, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The former program director of supplemental educational services provider, Priority: My Education pleaded guilty today to federal program fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: FERGUS COUNTY, Mont.) - Travelers using Stafford Ferry Road are warned that a washout hazard has occurred, making the road impassable.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announces that Sie Merriman, 36, of Fort Wayne, IN was sentenced before District Court Judge Theresa Springmann for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Tampa resident indicted in the Southern District of Florida for his involvement in Tricare health care fraud scheme, money laundering, and the misbranding of drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, received a response to his letter sent to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter Shaub requesting more information regarding how his office plans to address the potential for conflicts of interest in the upcoming Administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York filed a criminal information in Brooklyn federal court charging Torneos y Competencias S.A. (Torneos), a South American sports marketing company, with wire fraud conspiracy in connection with the company’s long-running participation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: OXFORD - Stephen Richard Lightman, 34, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers, Jr., in Oxford, Mississippi on Dec. 12, 2016, to serve 360 months in prison for production of child pornography, and 240 months in prison for distribution of child pornography. Lightman will serve the two sentences consecutively, totaling 50 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Taylor Nardo Paya, 20, a member of the Havasupai Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Paya had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Come enjoy the winter solstice at Denali National Park and Preserve from 4:30- 7 p.m. on December 21!! Park rangers are hosting special event at the Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) where visitors can ski, snowshoe, or stroll on a snowy winter trail lit by luminarias.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Dec. 12, 2016, Herman Terrill Baylor, age 28, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 102 months in prison on the charge of Felon in Possessionof a Firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin VanderSchel. Baylor was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following the period of imprisonment and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges he aided his cousin and Heather Mack in the 2014 killing of Mack’s mother at an Indonesian resort.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) joined Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), House Oversight Committee Ranking Member ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and three other key Democratic lawmakers late yesterday sent a letter to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) demanding overdue enforcement against widely reported incidents of human trafficking...
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Democratic Whip Steny...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Defendants Among the 104 Individuals Federally Charged as a Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervision, on his conviction of federal heroin and fentanyl offenses, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
