News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- TULSA, Okla.-Chief United States District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Jesse Bud Leaverton, 58, to life imprisonment under the three-strikes sentencing statute for robbing three banks in the Tulsa metro area, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Today the BLM announced a two year mineral segregation of 340,079 acres of National Forest System land on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Okanogan County, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gerald H. Franz, Jr., 54, of Eden, New York, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, was sentenced to time served by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. He was further ordered to pay, jointly and severally with his codefendants, restitution in the amount of over $890,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Discharge of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man and woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Incest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Former City of Opa Locka Commissioner Luis Santiago has been charged for his participation in a two-year long bribery and extortion under color of official right conspiracy, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 666(a)(1)(B), and 1951(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey announced today that his office collected more than $15,765,000 in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, more than $8,214,000 was collected in criminal actions and more than $7,551,000 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kenya Brown, 41, of Rochester, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack" cocaine), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Melissa Strohman, age 54, of Nottingham, Maryland, is facing federal charges of wire fraud and bank embezzlement, arising from a six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at the bank where she worked, and use the money for her own benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: PIERRE, S.D - Attorney General Marty Jackley and United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced today that the Division of Criminal Investigation, the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Spearfish Police Department, and Homeland Security Investigations have arrested Nicholaus Tripp, 28, Spearfish, South Dakota, on one count of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet (18 USC 2422(b).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: (NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed Contra Costa Water District Gilbert Property Inclusion Project. This project would approve the inclusion of the Gilbert Property into Contra Costa WD’s Central Valley Project service area allowing the development to receive Project water.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, and City of Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch formalized an agreement to transfer the Department of Energy’s (DOE) American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) building, along with its 17.12 acres, to the City of Oak Ridge. In exchange, DOE will receive space from the city to continue its public education and outreach efforts. These educational efforts focus on recognizing the long-standing partnership between the Department and the City of Oak Ridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN O’BRIEN, 53, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of wire fraud related to his stealing more than $824,000 from clients of his law practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARTIN MITCHELL, a/k/a “Tyliek," pled guilty today to involvement in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his membership in the “Big Money Bosses" (“BMB"), a violent street gang that operated primarily...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Discharge of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kenya Brown, 41, of Rochester, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack" cocaine), and...
