News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - The co-owner of B & H Convenience store pled guilty Monday to charges of misusing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the food stamp program. Patrick Buck admitted with his plea that he illegally redeemed up to $550,000 in SNAP benefits between January 2010 and March 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Warwick, New York, man was convicted by a federal jury today of coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and traveling from New York to Passaic County, New Jersey, to have sexual intercourse with another minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: FBI Conducting Search in Connection with 2006 Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) and Committee on Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) unveiled the findings of a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on actions needed to reduce racial and socioeconomic segregation, and ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: This morning the Finance Committee will discuss the concept of corporate integration, which isn’t exactly a topic that comes up at summer picnics. But this issue is important to the tax reform debate, and I want to thank Chairman Hatch and his staff for putting a whole lot of sweat equity into this topic.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed series of Warren Act Contracts and/or exchange agreements over a 25 year period for the storage and conveyance of up to 50,000 acre-feet...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that JACOBO GARCIA, age 28, of Ft. Meyers, Florida, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine. Following his conviction, GARCIA was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: G. F. Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Rico Antonio Barnett, age 33, from Athens, Georgia, was sentenced today by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge. Mr. Barnett was sentenced to serve 156 months’ imprisonment for...
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday to discuss how the United States is allocating resources to fight the war on drugs. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Jackson Moates, Jr., age 49, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Mark Ford for arraignment on a 25 count Indictment charging him with Money Laundering, Wire Fraud, Theft Concerning a Program Receiving Federal Funds, Mail Fraud, Bank Fraud, and Theft or Embezzlement from Employee Benefit Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kearneysville, West Virginia resident Francisco Gaspar Sanchez, 57, originally of Mexico, was sentenced to 121 months in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Ray Wagner, age 33, a resident of Harford County, pleaded guilty today to use of interstate facilities to coerce a minor to engage in sex.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jeannette Knightner, 34, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin within 1,000 feet of public housing authority property. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $2,000,000.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The wild hog is an exotic invasive species that is significantly impacting the native resources at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The states of Tennessee and Kentucky consider wild hogs to be invasive animals. Little is known about the Big South Fork wild hog population, but the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Moo Hoon “Steve" Kim, 54, of Cypress, was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay over $16 million in restitution for mail fraud related to a scheme to avoid paying excise tax on tobacco products, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Tulsa, Okla., physician was sentenced in federal court today for using a minor to produce child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “America’s Insatiable Demand for Drugs: Assessing the Federal Response. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -In the past six months Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has reached over 500 local elementary students with opportunities to be active, spend time with friends and family, and utilize the Monument as a living classroom to build academic and life skills. This emphasis on school programs and youth is part of the National Park Service's Centennial taking place throughout this year. These programs will continue into the future.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Raymond “Ken" Ferris, 60, of Detroit, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to a 87 month term of imprisonment and a 3 year term of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on May 16, 2016, Ronald W. McNair, Jr., 25, formerly stationed at Scott Air Force Base, pled guilty to Possession of Prepubescent Child Pornography. McNair faces a term of imprisonment of not more than twenty years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of five years to life. Sentencing for McNair is set for September 6, 2016, in Benton, Illinois.
