News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Anthony J. Orlando, the Acting Special-Agent-in-Charge of the Los Angeles Office of the...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Update on Rocky Flats CERCLA Five-Year Review.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López announced today the selection of Max Spiker as Senior Advisor for Hydropower and Electric Reliability Officer. Reclamation is the second largest generator of hydropower in the country; its 53 power plants annually generate an average of 40 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to meet the demand of 3.5 million homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David B. Schmitt, 64, of North Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to tax evasion before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Milwaukee man was sentenced today to more than 21 years in federal prison for transporting an underage girl to the Chicago area from Wisconsin to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Queens, New York, man today admitted his role in a scheme to distribute controlled substance analogues, which are designer drugs that have chemical structures and hallucinogenic effects similar to Schedule I controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Limited cave tours are being offered at Wind Cave National Park due to elevator problems. All tours will now enter and exit the cave via the Walk-in Entrance and proceed only as far as the Post Office Room. Visitors will need to descend and climb up 155 stairs, which is equivalent to climbing a 15-story building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today the sentencing of Telly Hankton and three members of the Hankton Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: 2016 is the centennial year for the National Park Service (NPS). In commemoration of this significant milestone, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area held numerous events throughout the year. The goal was to bring communities together not only in celebration, but bring awareness of the NPS site they have right in their own backyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. -A Henderson, Nev., man was convicted Tuesday of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative and HOPE Initiative, which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced two Tuscaloosa men to prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana through the U.S. mail and bribing U.S. Postal Service employees to deliver the drug, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez and West Alabama Narcotics Squad Capt. Wayne Robertson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Beating African-American Stranger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Crowell Farms, Inc. located in Asheville, and its owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to criminal violations of the Clean Water Act, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced two Tuscaloosa men to prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana through the U.S. mail and bribing U.S. Postal Service employees to deliver the drug, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez and West Alabama Narcotics Squad Capt. Wayne Robertson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On November 9, 2016, Kevin Dwane Carpenter, 51, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 240 months in prison for enticement of a minor, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Carpenter was ordered to serve fifteen years of supervised release following his prison term and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE- A federal jury convicted Sanjiv Kakkar of wire fraud and making misstatements to a bank announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The verdict, issued late yesterday, followed a twelve-day trial before the Honorable Edward J. Davila, U.S. District Judge.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Santec Inc. Santec Inc. 1420 East Linden Ave. 1420 East Linden Ave. Linden, New Jersey. Linden, New Jersey. Citations issued: On Nov. 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the company citations for 11 serious and one other-than-serious...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAVIER DE JESUS PEREZ-JIMENEZ age 30, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: LaShane Hayes, 43, of La Vergne, Tennessee, was charged in a criminal information today with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to her role as the director of All About Giving, Inc., a sponsor agency in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP), announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
