News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a Jennifer L. Cadwallader, 39, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, was sentenced to five years probation, including six months home confinement, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Michael Bush, 45, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci to transmitting communications containing threats to injure the person of another. The charge carries a maximum of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration's Clean Energy Savings for All Initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released best practice guidelines for Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs. PACE is an innovative mechanism for financing energy efficiency, solar, and related...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Dr. Michael Roger Chiarottino was sentenced today to three years in prison for illegally prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Lowell, MA-In celebration of the 30th Lowell Folk Festival, a new, fresh look has been added to this year's festival to mark the occasion. The Lowell Folk Festival continues to provide the finest in traditional music, craft, floodways and more in downtown Lowell. This year, the theme of the festival...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Bring your family and friends to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th birthday at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic River from Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28. Free camping has been authorized at the Alum Ford Campground (Big South Fork) and Rock Creek Campground (Obed) as well as for all backcountry permits for these days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Racketeering Conviction Included Largest No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme Ever Charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Kasey Jo Martinez, 32, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 40 months in prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Reposted from WhiteHouse.gov. President Obama is committed to ensuring that every American family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills - and that every American community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change. Since President Obama took office...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that it is postponing a continuance referendum on the Softwood Lumber Research, Promotion, Consumer Education and Industry Information Order. The referendum was scheduled for August 2016. A new referendum date has not yet been determined. All program obligations, including the collection of assessments and filing of reports, remain in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Mark Ross, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire, and Leslie Aberle, 32, of Salisbury, Massachusetts appeared yesterday before United States District Court Judge Landya McCafferty and pleaded guilty to distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dwight T. Brown, 19, a member and resident of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for passing counterfeit $100 bills in Mountain View, West Plains and Springfield, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Branchburg, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to produce sexually explicit images of children through a website he operated from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted a high ranking member and a sicario for the Los Zetas drug cartel, of conspiring to commit numerous murders and other acts of violence in Northern Mexico in furtherance of a drug distribution operation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Christopher Gorman, 51, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty conspiracy to damage a building used in an activity affecting interstate commerce by means of fire and an explosive before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: The President: "Every day, you confront danger so it does not find our families … We recognize it, we respect it, we appreciate it, and we depend on you.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Carmelo Velázquez-Aponte a.k.a. “Boty," was found guilty of four carjackings, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence (carjacking), and possession of a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States Senior Judge Daniel Dominguez presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Martin Allen Mentzer, age 44, Franklin County, was sentenced to 20 years (240 months) in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bart Dutch Marshall, 61, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges.
