News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Kelsey, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl he met through Instagram when he was 26 years old, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Indictment alleges series of lies in naturalization process, including failure to disclose Serbian-militia service and murder charges during Bosnian Conflict.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury sitting in Greensboro, North Carolina, returned an indictment today charging Jessica Shanice Taylor, a Rockingham, North Carolina resident, with conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, wire fraud and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ray Martinez, 44, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced Dec. 15, 2016, in federal court to 77 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Part of $15.4 Billion FY16 Collections By Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: DEA-Led OCDETF Operation Targeted Cocaine Trafficking in Southern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Veronica Rosales-Capitaine, 49, of Fresno, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 14 months in prison for conspiracy to produce, transfer, possess, and sell false identification documents, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who participated in a multistate drug ring was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Matthew Michael Meadows, 31, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Josiah Hutton (60, Winter Haven) with concealment of assets and embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office is requesting public input prior to analyzing a proposed wild horse gather in the North Lander Wild Horse Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Alexandria woman was sentenced last week to 12 months and one day in prison for charging fees to college students and pocketing the money.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: The former owner of Cynthia’s Polynesian Market in Burien, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for food stamp benefit fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. ROHIT REDDY, 43, pleaded guilty to Supplemental...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ELY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District is scheduled on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, to begin gathering and removing approximately 100 excess wild horses from public and private lands adjacent to U.S. Highway 93 and State Route 322 in and outside the Eagle and Silver King Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in eastern Nevada. The helicopter gather is necessary to provide for public and animal safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Kendrick, who was convicted by a federal jury of the murders of Francisco Santos and Ryan cooper, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute large quantities of illegal narcotics, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On the heels of President Obama’s signing of the National Park Service Centennial Act, today the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation unveiled an impressive summary of the agency’s accomplishments, achieved with its partners and unprecedented public engagement, during its year-long 100th anniversary celebrations, and prepared to use the momentum and support that resulted from the centennial to launch into its second century of service.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt seeking answers to help Congressional leaders and state officials better understand how CMS has been approaching Medicaid expansion policies under Obamacare. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found ARTHUR STANLEY, also known as “Wiggs," 27, guilty of committing the July 15, 2011 murder of Keith Washington, 23, of Windsor. The trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer began on December 5 and the jury returned its verdict this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Virginia Resident Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Running Fraudulent “Savvy Bag" Investment Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Estes, age 41, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to conspiring with others to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin and more than 50 grams of methamphetamine in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt seeking answers to help Congressional leaders and state officials better understand how CMS has been approaching Medicaid expansion policies under Obamacare. The...
