News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bruce E. Kenney, III, 60, of Norfolk, Virginia, pled guilty in federal court today to wire and tax fraud charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory L. Clark, age 26, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Following a three-day jury trial, Frazier B. Todd, Jr. has been found guilty of preparing fraudulent tax returns on behalf of clients. Todd owned and operated Diverse Resource Business and Tax Firm in Union City, Georgia, along with Cozzie Walker and Robert Sheffield. Walker and Sheffield were also charged in the case and previously pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Randal Wilson was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison, and a three-year term of supervised release, for his misappropriation of over $80,000 from the Ethical Society of Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Perpetrating Trademark Scam and Money Laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: (FORT BENTON, Mont.) - With autumn’s cold tail of sub-zero temperatures sweeping across central Montana, the Bureau of Land Management has closed the James Kipp and Coal Banks Landing Recreation Areas for the winter season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Scottsbluff, Nebraska, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 28, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A pair of gang members, who were convicted earlier this year of federal racketeering [RICO] charges in relation to a string of violent robberies and the abduction and murder of an off-duty, reserve police captain, were sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - The newest Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of West Virginia was sworn into office today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Between November 30 and December 7, 2016, seven defendants were sentenced for their role in a scheme to steal $36 million of federal funds intended for low-income housing.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Dec. 12, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to deny the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools’ (ACICS) appeal concerning its loss of recognition.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Carter: I write today to request information regarding the Department of Defense’s (DOD) response to the Defense Business Board’s (the Board) recent study, entitled Transforming DoD’s Core Business Processes for Revolutionary Change, and any plans to implement its recommendations. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Clark D. East (59, Sugarland, TX) with embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALIYAH THERESA JULIATE DAVIS, also known as Theresa Juliate Sutherland, 36, of East Windsor, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to multiple offenses that she committed while awaiting incarceration after a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia - Former Congressman Chaka Fattah Sr., 60, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes intended to further his political and financial interests by misappropriating federal, charitable and campaign funds, among other things.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Winnemucca District Office is pleased to announce the selection of Justin B. Drew as the District Manager. Justin will start in the position at the beginning of February, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bruce E. Kenney, III, 60, of Norfolk, Virginia, pled guilty in federal court today to wire and tax fraud charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
