News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was indicted today on charges that he fraudulently obtained $3.5 million from two investors by falsely representing that his businesses had secured lucrative contracts to sell olive oil to major retailers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) announced today that former senior White House and congressional advisor Richard Russell will serve as Republican staff director of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Barrasso also named Brian Clifford deputy staff director for the majority.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Plot to Kill Muslims.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The completion of a consolidated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters project at the St. Elizabeths West campus would save taxpayers $1.2 billion dollars over 30 years and enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s coordinated national security efforts according to a new...
By EPA 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: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Glendon Scott Crawford, age 52, of Galway, New York, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for plotting to kill Muslims with a weapon of mass destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two East Orange, New Jersey, men today admitted their roles in a conspiracy to file false federal income tax returns on behalf of inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management today took the first steps toward dramatically accelerating the rate at which it transfers Federal lands to the State of Alaska. The agency will now use satellite-based navigation-a more advanced form of the technology that drives many smartphone applications-to...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: MILL VALLEY, CA -- The National Park Service today posted a prospectus to develop and manage a reservation system and onsite parking for Muir Woods National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - A federal grand jury indicted Lawrence Gerard Nassar on federal child pornography charges. As recently as last year, Nassar was a physician for the U.S. Gymnastics Team. The grand jury alleges in the indictment that Nassar received and attempted to receive child pornography in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Chad Stoner, age 28, and Emily Winand, age 27, both of Conewago Township, York County, Pennsylvania, were indicted on December 7, 2016, by a federal grand jury, for transmitting an interstate communication containing a threat to injure police officers and officials of Conewago Township. The indictment also charges that Stoner was a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on Dec. 15, 2016, at the intersection of Shelburne Road and Prospect Parkway, federal and local law enforcement authorities arrested a twenty-year-old South Burlington man, Randy McEntee, for the unlawful possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Edward Kriglstein, 50, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty Dec. 16, 2016, in federal court to a federal methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Kriglstein will be sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shawnta Brown, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Vincent Jones, 46, of Westville, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former teller at Lenox National Bank in Lenox, Mass. was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with embezzling almost $300,000 from the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Glendon Scott Crawford, age 52, of Galway, New York, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for plotting to kill Muslims with a weapon of mass destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: North Carolina Woman Indicted for Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS, Assisting in the Preparation of False Tax Returns, Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s final rule on stream buffer zones for coal mining.
