News from December 2016
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republican staff report on embassy construction...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, Howard Leventhal, the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of mHealth Technologies Corp., formerly named Neovision USA, Inc. (Neovision), was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 60 months’ imprisonment. In December 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Sable Daniel, age 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for distribution of heroin and providing an inmate with contraband and Russell Whitmore, age 33, an inmate at United States Penitentiary, Canaan (USP Canaan), for possession of contraband by an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Blackburn, 26, of Elkins, West Virginia, pled guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A stockbroker and operator of a $1.4 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard Voorhees today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Charles Caleb Fackrell, 37, of Booneville, N.C....
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 4680, the “National Park Service Centennial Act" (Chairman Rob Bishop, R-UT), bipartisan legislation to equip the National Park Service (NPS) with the tools to better manage and promote our national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Frederick Gladfelter, age 46, of York, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to allowing his home to be used as a site for the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man was charged today with robbing five banks from late October 2016 through November 2016, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced KRISTOPHER OWEN DANIELS, 32, of a Wilmington, North Carolina to 152 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Matthew Gage Burgett, 25, of Blackfoot, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to unlawful possession of destructive devices which Burgett designed for use as a weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Burgett was indicted by a Pocatello grand jury on Oct. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Jeffrey Magelitz, 44, of Chester, Illinois, was sentenced to two years of probation, six months of home detention and 100 hours of community service as a result of his convictions in a two-count Indictment that charged embezzlement and theft from a labor union and for filing a false report with the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Hammerstone, 34, of Bellaire, Ohio, pled guilty in federal court today for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: A federal Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Raymond Castaneda, 43, a Mexican citizen, with unlawfully re-entering the United States and failing to register as a sex offender, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Derek Anson Beecher, 33, of Clarkdale, Ariz., a member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 87 months in federal prison, followed by a term of lifetime supervised release. Beecher had previously pleaded guilty to sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Latifah Donaldson, 24, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of maintaining a drug involved premises, was sentenced to time served and two years of supervised release to include six months of home detention by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man was sentenced today to a total of 10 years in federal prison for carjacking and a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. David Allen Young, 24, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking and one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Young was sentenced to 10 years on each count and the sentences will be served concurrently.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man and his diagnostic testing company are being sued by the government for knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare for thousands of diagnostic testing services he did not render, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) convened a hearing to discuss Compassion International’s work in India. The hearing is entitled “American Compassion in India: Government Obstacles." Live webcast and witness testimony is available HERE.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor on the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, which invests in a wide range of health priorities, including $1 billion in funding...
