News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Claus C. Foerster, age 56, formerly of Spartanburg, South Carolina, was sentenced today for multiple counts of Wire Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. United States District Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Skagway - New gold rush exhibits debut on Dec. 2, 2016 in the National Park Service (NPS) Visitor Center and Museum. Following the Holiday Concert in the NPS Auditorium at 6:00p.m., the new exhibits will open at 7:00p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 15, 2016, Linda Lee Clark, 68, of Corydon, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 78 months in prison for embezzlement by a credit union employee, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Clark was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following her imprisonment and to pay $2,494,809.33 in restitution.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of a resolution urging respect for the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the democratic transition of power in 2016 (H.Res.780 ) on the House floor...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: He and Accomplices Committed Crimes in Broad Daylight.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 14, 2016, Leonard Deshawn Boyd, 24, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 18 months in prison for making a false statement during purchase of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Boyd was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Virginia Ilene Faudoa, 39, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner was sentenced on November 7, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva hailed today’s newly announced Interior Department methane emissions rule for oil and gas extraction on federal land. He urged the incoming administration to maintain the standard.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) law enforcement officers will be conducting driving under the influence (DUI) and registration checkpoints at several locations within Imperial County from Nov. 22 through Nov. 27 between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on November 8, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Six of nine defendants expected to be sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL have now been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. HAMZA AHMED, 21, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison. ADNAN FARAH, 20, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. HANAD MUSSE, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, Anthony Kendall, 28, an inmate in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve an additional 15 years in a federal prison for assaulting a correctional officer, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Receives Attorney General's Award For Exceptional Service In Indian Country.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nominations of the Honorable Robert G. Taub and the Honorable Mark D. Acton to be Commissioners, Postal Regulatory Commission." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Navy Officer Pleads Guilty in Massive Fraud and Corruption Scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management released the finalized methane and waste prevention rule on federal and tribal lands. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Malik Mingo, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 13 years and five months stemming from two separate armed robberies of commercial businesses in September 2015 in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
