News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: There will be a press conference today to announce charges against Navnoor Kang, a former portfolio manager at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, and two broker-dealers, Deborah Kelley and Gregg Schonhorn, for participating in a “pay-for-play" scheme involving the Fund. Relevant charging documents are attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Camden, New Jersey, men were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a conspiracy to rob a drug stash house of multiple kilograms of cocaine that they believed would be stored at the location, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, announced today the filing of a complaint against the State of New York; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Zwolle man pleaded guilty Monday to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 19, 2016, Robert Mark Baron, 54, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to a total of 155 months in prison. Baron had previously pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: First Case Prosecuted under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act Where Victim was Targeted Because of Gender Identity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney John A. Horn announced today that the Northern District of Georgia aided in the collection of over $108 million for U.S. taxpayers in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2016. The Northern District of Georgia directly collected $13,226,147 in criminal and civil actions. Of this...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that William Bonilla, Jr., age 31, and William Davis, age 29, both inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, in Minersville, Pennsylvania (FCI Schuylkill), were indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and attempt to obtain marijuana and synthetic marijuana in FCI Schuylkill.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR), incoming Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today continued staff announcements for the 115th Congress. Mr. Walden announced earlier this month that Mike Bloomquist, Karen Christian, Peter Kielty, and Paul Edattel will continue to serve the committee.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today announced Charles B. Curtis as the third recipient of the James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security. When the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) were established on October 1, 1977, Schlesinger and Curtis were appointed by President Carter as the first DOE Secretary and FERC Chairman, respectively. Later, Mr. Curtis served as Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Acting Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration. He was a founding partner of the law firm Van Ness, Curtis,...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today highlighted the committee’s sweeping #RecordOfSuccess for the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Carmen Milagros Ortiz announced today that she will be stepping down from her post as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking comments on an environmental assessment (EA) that analyzes the potential impacts of a proposal from Tidewater Oil & Gas Company, LLC to drill three wells in the Crescent Junction area approximately 30 miles north of Moab, Utah in Grand County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - GEORGE EDMOND WALKER, 39, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 240 months in federal prison for voluntary manslaughter committed on Indian land, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging RICHARD BRUNO, 46, of Waterford, with one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, and one count of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that, yesterday, a Juneau man was sentenced to federal prison for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Murdering Transgender Victim Because of Her Gender Identity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, MICHAEL DEAN BILLINGS, 61, a former attorney from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 168 months (14 years) in federal prison for traveling from Oklahoma City to Iquitos, Peru, to engage in illicit sexual conduct with Peruvian girls under 18 years of age, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today highlighted the committee’s sweeping #RecordOfSuccess for the 114th Congress.
