News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Spanish Fugitive Pleads Guilty in Connection with Prostitution Enterprise Operated Out of Florida Hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on May 9, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 72 months (6 years), to be followed by six years of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announces that five individuals were sentenced for their involvement in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. All five were part of the same drug trafficking organization operating in the Rocky Mount area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that in federal court today SHAWN SCHENCK, of Clarkton, North Carolina, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, to 276 months after having pled guilty to Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States Code Section 848. Schenck was subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty (20) years for his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Contributed Funds to Send a Co-Conspirator Overseas to Join ISIL and to Finance the Purchase of a Firearm Once the Co-Conspirator Arrived in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Sidney J. Charles, Jr., age 49, of Raceland, Louisiana, formerly of Bowie, Maryland, on mail and wire fraud charges arising from an investment fraud scheme. The indictment was returned on April 27, 2016 and unsealed on May 10, 2016, after Charles was arrested late on May 9, 2016, in Levelland, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Washington - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U. S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South Carolina announced today that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging former North Charleston, South Carolina, Police...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Sidney J. Charles, Jr., age 49, of Raceland, Louisiana, formerly of Bowie, Maryland, on mail and wire fraud charges arising from an investment fraud scheme. The indictment was returned on April 27, 2016 and unsealed on May 10, 2016, after Charles was arrested late on May 9, 2016, in Levelland, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Uzbeki National Charged with Conspiring and Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s April 2016 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Ruben Ceja-Rangel, age 59, a Mexican national whose last known residence was Groveland, Florida, was sentenced late yesterday in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina. Ceja-Rangel was convicted Oct. 23, 2015, of 7 charges related to the armed abduction of a St. Mathews man that occurred in July of 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
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By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Pennsylvania State University as the lead institution to establish the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research. The Coalition will bring together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from participating universities to address the fundamental research challenges that impede advancement of fossil energy-based technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan returned an indictment against Nobuhiko Niwa, a former automotive parts executive, for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate the market for ceramic substrates sold in the United States and elsewhere, and used in catalytic converters supplied to automobile manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere, announced the Justice Department today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Bridget Brasfield, 45, of Edwardsville, Illinois, pled guilty to a two-count information charging Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 30, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Benton, Illinois. At that time Brasfield will face up to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $500,000, and up to 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Today’s upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal jury convicted Marc Christopher Harmon today of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Bertram Fairries, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 30,000 metric tons of soybean oil for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Yesterday, Seivert Daydrill Running Crane, 30, of Browning, was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Running Crane was convicted by a Great Falls jury following a two-day trial. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris presided over the trial. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 18, 2016.
