News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City-area man who conspired with a former Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of PCP through the mail was sentenced in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Former Property Management Company Agrees to Pay More Than $1.6 Million for Defrauding Military Housing Projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Fulton, Mo, woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a money-laundering conspiracy related to the distribution of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at Callaway County, Mo., businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Billings, George Chad Deputee was sentenced to 9 years for sexually abusing a child in the 1990s. Deputee, 42, of Crow Agency, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters to 108 months in custody followed by 5 years of supervised release after a trial jury found him guilty of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact of a child.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement today after the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which includes his amendment to begin reforming the Broadcasting Board of Governors...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jesse Lewis, 46, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Al Franken (D-Minn.) released the following statement Friday on the Department of Labor's (DOL) decision to appeal a federal court injunction of the new overtime-pay rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allison Park, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that Pamela Griffin Frizzelle, 54, of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Philip Simon for three counts of Hobbs Act Extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael DePalma, 57, of Plainfield, New Hampshire was sentenced for his role in a conspiracy to distribute alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (“a-PVP"), a synthetic drug commonly referred to as “bath salts." DePalma was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Cranston resident was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison today for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, wire fraud, theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Today Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau announced that the damaged pier at Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island has been replaced and is open for visitor landings.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Sentencing has been scheduled in March 2017 for a Rushville woman, Amy Ward, 30, who pled guilty yesterday to embezzling $486,510 from her former employer, a Beardstown farmer. Ward, waived indictment and pled guilty to one count of bank fraud as charged in the information filed by...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced two defendants for their involvement in a large-scale smokeable synthetic cannabinoid trafficking organization based in Millbrae and Stockton, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MAURICE GEORGE, age 45, of Napoleonville, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and eight counts of Wire Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - At approximately 9 am on Thursday, Dec. 1, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call alerting rangers to a potentially suicidal individual at Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A longtime U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been convicted of federal charges for theft of mail from the International Mail Facility (IMF) in Torrance and arranging to have an accomplice deposit checks obtained from the stolen mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A longtime U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been convicted of federal charges for theft of mail from the International Mail Facility (IMF) in Torrance and arranging to have an accomplice deposit checks obtained from the stolen mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Dorothea Lassiter, 45, of Ashburn, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Lassiter was also ordered to pay restitution and agreed to an asset forfeiture judgment of more than $258,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Sreedhar Potarazu, 51, of Potomac, Maryland pleaded guilty today to charges of inducing interstate travel to commit a fraud and failing to account for and pay over employment taxes.
