News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - A ninth Nigerian national has been extradited from South Africa to face charges on a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi involving various internet fraud schemes, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Previously one South African was extradited from South Africa and an additional Nigerian from Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on July 26, 2016, Lamar Carter, a.k.a. “Bando" and “Boogie," age 25, of Brattleboro, Vermont, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine. United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford, sitting in Rutland, also sentenced Carter to 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 25, 2016, Steven R. Schenian, Jr. (age: 38) of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Carmen M. Ortiz, the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Andrew J. Ceresney, Director of the Division of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Thomas E. Perez, the United States Secretary of Labor (DOL), announced today that State Street Bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on July 26, 2016, Lamar Carter, a.k.a. “Bando" and “Boogie," age 25, of Brattleboro, Vermont, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine. United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford, sitting in Rutland, also sentenced Carter to 3 years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the Administration’s announcement of expanded protections for Central American migrants seeking refugee status in the United States. The...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Lookout Mountain, TN: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special living history weekend at Point Park, located atop historic Lookout Mountain on Saturday, August 6 and Sunday, August 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that tax preparer SAMUEL GENTLE, the owner of a tax preparation business named GenGen, Inc., in Mount Vernon, New York, was found guilty on charges of obstructing the IRS and aiding and assisting the preparation of false and fraudulent individual income tax returns for his clients. GENTLE was convicted yesterday after a five-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 25, 2016, Christopher Nigel Benn, 24, of Fredonia, Ariz., an enrolled member of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indian Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 25 years’ imprisonment after Benn had previously pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact of a minor. The Court also imposed a lifetime term of supervised release to follow Benn’s term of imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Grand Teton National Park is launching a new Tribal Youth Corps program this summer. The goals of the program are to reconnect American Indian youth with the Grand Teton landscape while assisting with cultural preservation projects, and to introduce participants to careers in the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Jamaica, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: As Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) says, the proof is in the pudding. And the benefits of lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports are already unmistakable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Joshua Manning, age 22, from Maquoketa, Iowa, has been charged with one count of distribution of furanyl fentanyl. The charge is contained in an Indictment unsealed on July 22, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: FREDERICK: On Aug. 25, 2016, “Find Your Park" at Monocacy National Battlefield and help celebrate the Centennial of the National Park Service. The first 100 visitors will receive a cupcake and can enter to win a one-of-a-kind Centennial gift basket. Don’t forget to see the temporary exhibit in the museum that tells the history of the National Park Service, complete with past uniforms and memorabilia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for possession of the firearm with an obliterated serial number, which was later used to murder MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent letters to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Credit Union for Illegally Repossessing Servicemembers’ Cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, 34-year-old Luis Armando Ontiveros of San Antonio was sentenced to 145 months in federal prison followed by a 30 years of supervised release for receiving of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: (GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jeffrey Sean Nazari, 44, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing a controlled substance analogue, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nazari admitted that a victim died from using the acetyl fentanyl analogue that he distributed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2016
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Yesterday evening, a federal jury convicted Lewis Jones III, 36, Larry Bernard Gilmore, 43, and Michael Bernard Gilmore, 46, all of Atlanta, GA, of conspiracy, interfering with commerce by robbery, and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Co-conspirator Abigail Lee Kemp, 25, of Smyrna, GA, pled guilty on July 11. The verdicts and guilty plea were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
