News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a federal criminal complaint charging Oliver Charles Halliday Gee (34, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico), with assault or intimidation of a flight crew. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Veterans and their Families Honored for their Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Roanoke County Police Officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kionte Spencer on Feb. 26, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) invited American businesses to apply for temporary duty suspensions and reductions at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Paris Agreement becoming international law less than a year after nearly 200 countries formalized the agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joseph Felix Strevell, age 55, of Castleton, New York, pled guilty today to repeatedly lying under oath at a December 2014 deposition where he was questioned about his ability and efforts to pay court-ordered restitution to New York State.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ELKO, Nev.- The California Trail Center is seeking model train enthusiasts to help create an interactive temporary exhibit during December.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Batesland, South Dakota, man convicted of Robbery and Use and Brandishing of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) caporegime pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to obstructing a federal investigation into the murder of a Boston nightclub owner in the 1990s.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 3, 2016, Luis Carvajal, 52, of Loudon, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 30 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to submit false tax returns and a conspiracy to commit money laundering. Carvajal previously pleaded guilty to both these charges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District is hosting two guided hikes in the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Monument) on November 19 and Dec. 17, 2016. The Monument is located off Picacho Boulevard, a half mile east of Shalem Colony and Rocky Acres Road on Permian Tracks Road in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Michael McGarrity Named Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division for the New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) caporegime pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to obstructing a federal investigation into the murder of a Boston nightclub owner in the 1990s.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Misused Government Property to Punish Fort Lee Mayor for Not Endorsing Gov. Christie’s Re-election.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Ruger is a dog with a full-time job. As the newest member of the Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), he is very busy with the important work of saving children. Ruger, a black Labrador retriever, is the first and only electronic-detection K9 in the state of Ohio and one of less than two dozen in the entire United States. Ruger has recently finished training and is expected to execute his first search warrant in October.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee have long been concerned about the Internal Revenue Service’s failure to properly preserve its electronic records and implement systems to search for and produce records in response to litigation and congressional...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GERARD DUGUE, age 66, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a Superseding Bill of Information charging him with being an accessory after the fact to the deprivation of rights under color of law. U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt accepted the plea and sentenced DUGUE to a one-year term of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Marvin J. Lipfird, the former Sheriff of Harlan County, has been indicted for the theft of public funds and property.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kilwa Jones, 32, St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on multiple charges involving the Sept. 25, 2015 shooting of Christopher Sanna, as well as the robberies of both Sanna and his companion, Lisa Simpson. The robberies and the assault occurred near the Old Cathedral in the northbound lanes of Memorial Drive, which is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Defendants Shipped Nearly $780,000 of Drugs Into United States.
