News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Porfirio Rosa, a/k/a Luis Rosa, 74, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to making false statements in application for a passport before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ernest Xavier Taylor, Jr., 31, and Tracie Laverne Mixon, 34, both of Hammond, Louisiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges relating to stealing the identities of four people to fraudulently obtain federal student loans from Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and other schools.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Joseph S. Heleniak, 71, of West Seneca, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Orange County resident who oversaw a company that claimed to be developing oil and gas wells and bilked investors by, among other things, falsely claiming they would see 50 percent annual returns has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, New Britain Police Chief James P. Wardwell and Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran, today announced that the following nine individuals were arrested today on federal charges related to the distribution of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: $15,000 Reward Offered in Homicide of 9-Year-Old Child.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Rayvon O. Archibald, a/k/a “P Money," “Keyvon M. Malone," “Keyvon Smith," and “Scoobie," age 26, of Boston, Massachusetts, today to 14 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: FARGO - On May 19, 2016, Matthew Gust, 25, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for setting fire to a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers of the District of North Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a variety of special programs during Memorial Day weekend.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Seward, AK-On June 1, Kenai Fjords National Park will be gathering to celebrate the National Park Service 100th anniversary. As part of the celebration, the park is honored to have National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis provide his vision for the next 100 years of stewardship, community and youth engagement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and for illegally possessing several firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Division, Karl C. Colder, announced today that a DEA Tactical Diversion Squad will be implemented in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Supplied Heroin to Victim Who Died of Overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOEQUELL LEWIS, age 28, of Westwego, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of Chicago financial firms defrauded dozens of clients out of more than $1.5 million by pocketing most of their money instead of investing it, according to federal criminal charges filed today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing to examine deficiencies in regulatory transparency at the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 8 indictments charging 9 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Los Angeles man who masterminded a bank account ‘bustout’ scheme that defrauded financial institutions such as Bank of America and Chase Bank and cumulatively caused more than $15 million in losses has been sentenced to serve 63 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Plastic manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Now, research performed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed a way to reduce the energy demand in one key step of plastic manufacturing by using a class of materials that can filter impurities more efficiently than the conventional manufacturing process.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - After months of urging, Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) - the ranking members of the House Natural Resources Committee and the committee’s oversight panel, respectively - and Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) hailed the newly announced Office of Surface Mining...
