News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Alexander Fishenko, a dual citizen of the United States and Russia, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment and ordered to forfeit more than $500,000 in criminal proceeds following his guilty plea on September 9, 2015 to a nineteen-count indictment. Fishenko was charged with acting as...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Mario McGeilberry, age 29 of Rialto, California, was sentenced yesterday to 140 months in federal prison followed by four (4) years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances with the Intent to Distribute. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former owner of a solar energy installation company in St. Joseph, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a fraud scheme that totaled nearly $1.4 million in rebates through state and federal programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Tyler Konigsmark, age 20, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with sexual exploitation of children and enticement of minors. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TRENDON T. SHAVERS, a/k/a “pirateat40," was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for one count of securities fraud stemming from his involvement in a Bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme. SHAVERS was the founder...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Yonnedil Carror-Torres was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in the carjacking and sexual assault of a female victim, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Defendant Carror-Torres pled guilty to the charges on March 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam Norton, 32, of Falmouth, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing heroin that resulted in death. Norton pled guilty to the charge on Jan. 26, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Like its Republican counterpart in Cleveland, next week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia is a “No Drone Zone."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted Jose Ricardo Pena yesterday for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OLVIN CASTILLO-CRUZ, age 34, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Saguaro National Park Seeks Public Comment Regarding Proposed User Fee Increase Tucson, AZ -.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: James Parker, 50, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment1 with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The charges arise...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: It may not surprise you that the mysterious three-pound mass of tissue found in our heads is the least understood of all the human organs. At the same time, what the global brain research community is discovering about the brain is nothing short of astonishing, and we are poised to make discoveries that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE GONZALEZ, also known as “Jo Jo," 39, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: It may not surprise you that the mysterious three-pound mass of tissue found in our heads is the least understood of all the human organs. At the same time, what the global brain research community is discovering about the brain is nothing short of astonishing, and we are poised to make discoveries that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Charles Roberson, 44, of Hermon, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the announcement today by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to impose new requirements on the proposed merger between beer makers Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: “Rupa Bhattacharyya is an exceptional administrator and a devoted public servant, and I am delighted to name her as the new Special Master of the VCF," said Attorney General Lynch. “Throughout her career at the Treasury and Justice Departments, she has earned a reputation for fairness, efficiency and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Raytown, Mo., man and a Kansas City, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in order to prevent dozens of rental properties from being sold by the county for failure to pay property taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -To accommodate a dust abatement application, a brief travel closure will be in place for about 48 hours, beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, July 26, on the unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park. The road will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, July 28.
