News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SALVADOR ACOSTA-SALAS, age 34, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Administrator of Miami-Area Home Health Agency Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit $2.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The following events are happening at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Jan. 5-28.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced up to $70 million in funding for its two newest programs: Renewable Energy to Fuels Through Utilization of Energy-Dense Liquids (REFUEL) and Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Some Were Later Found in Bombs in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon who fired a handgun near Wrigley Field pleaded guilty today to a federal firearm charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Singapore Man Pleads Guilty to Plot Involving Illegal Exports of Radio Frequency Modules From the U.S. To Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Mark Vega, 34, of Shillington, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment1 with Mail Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Vega obtained stolen identities and used the names, dates of birth, and social security numbers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Krull, 44, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo, to distribution of child pornography following a prior conviction under New York law for possessing a sexual performance by a child. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years and maximum of 40 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that CHANCE ADRIAN GRIFFIN, age 21, of Allen, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment for DOMESTIC ASSAULT BY STRANGULATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 1151 and 113(a)(8).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: DEC. 15, 2016 - Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the country’s 1,000 most common surnames by race and Hispanic origin and those that occurred 100 or more times in the 2010 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the Middle District of Pennsylvania collected $14.5 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $2.1 million was collected in criminal actions and $12.3 million was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today the former Executive Director of the Sequoyah Fund, Inc. to 27 months in prison for embezzling more than half a million dollars from the fund, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman announced today that the Southern District of Ohio collected more than $13 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $10.7 million was collected in criminal actions and $2.4 million was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Epps, 48, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of wire fraud, mail fraud, arson, possession of Molotov Cocktails, maintaining a premises for drug trafficking, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 60 years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendants with Ties to Arizona and California Distributing Meth and Laundering Money.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Maintenance workers at Montezuma Well will be diverting the water to the ditch at the outlet area for the month of December through mid-January, and access will be limited. Visitors will still be able to go down the steps and across the footbridge, but will be stopped by barricades just beyond the foot bridge. Workers will be conducting work where the large sycamore crosses the ditch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Nigerian citizens have been ordered to prison for their role in a $2 million romance scam conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kunle Mutiu Amoo, 49, and Lanre Sunday Adeoba, 62, both citizens of Nigeria, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud on July 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente announced today that the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) collected $156,514,010.12 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $49,997,392.53 was collected in criminal actions and $106,516,617.59 was collected in civil actions.
