News from December 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today applauded President Obama’s decision to permanently protect the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic Ocean from future offshore drilling.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Skylar Tava Poellnitz, 25, of Dixons Mill, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court. Court records show that Poellnitz had been previously convicted of Theft of Property Second Degree and Possession of a Controlled Substance when he was arrested in possession of the gun in this case. Poellnitz pled guilty to the charge in September of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: An Indictment[1] was returned today charging Steven Ronald Randall, 24, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 2 counts of bank fraud and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Mary B. McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that JIANG YAN, 34, of Shenzhen, China, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to approximately 12 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Sycamore attorney was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of bankruptcy fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Los Angeles - A former Malibu businessman has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell unregistered securities which generated $1,663,190 in illegal profits and a related tax fraud charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Oregon Woman Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who previously pled guilty to federal drug and gun charges, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant and Co-Conspirators Committed Dozens of Knife-Point Robberies of Fast Food Stores Throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: On Dec. 19, 2014, the President of the United States signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2015. The NDAA required that Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) modify wildlife protection buffers, accelerate the construction of vehicle access points and roads, report...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Rodrigo Ramirez, 22, and Irwin Camacho, 19, both of Phoenix, Arizona, were sentenced to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ramirez was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to serve 70 months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory A. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Michael Hanan (age: 35) of Sussex, Wisconsin was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for identity theft and credit card fraud. In September of 2016, Hanan pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Leavenworth woman was sentenced Tuesday to four months in custody followed by four months home confinement for embezzling more than $500,000 from the bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. In addition, she was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Richard Garcia-Sanchez, 42, a member of a drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been ordered to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge, Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Garcia-Sanchez, of Mexico City, Mexico, pleaded guilty for his roles in these long-term drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies in December 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years for taking part in an armed robbery at a Stillwell bank and leading police on a high speed chase with a child in his car, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to information security: quantum computers, which could potentially break the encryption codes used to protect privacy in digital systems. NIST is requesting methods and strategies from the world’s cryptographers, with the deadline less than a year away.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Timothy Fenster, age 31, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Richard A. Caputo in Wilkes-Barre, to 92 months’ imprisonment for committing five...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Rockford-area men have been sentenced for their roles in an arson conspiracy to use an explosive to damage a pickup truck.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Khalif House pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit armed robberies in connection with 40 knife-point robberies that he and his co-conspirators committed between February 9, 2015 and June 7, 2016. The announcement of the guilty plea was made by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
