News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 56 year-old Longview man pled guilty in federal court to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting U.S. Attorney, Brit Featherston, today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement...
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Pipestone National Monument News Release. For Release: Immediate Release 11/04/2016. Contact: Cody Goraczkowski Phone: 507-825-5464 Ext. 213 Email: e-mail us. Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center Closed Thanksgiving Day. Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced, “In observance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE- Twenty members and associates of the Mad Stone Bloods (MSB) street and prison gang were charged in an indictment and other court documents unsealed today following the arrest of the majority of the defendants, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. of the Western District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced today that seven individuals associated with the United Blood Nation - Nine Trey gang in Wilmington have been charged in Criminal Complaints and in connection with the illegal possession and distribution...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. -. The Bureau of Reclamation has released environmental documents to approve the Colusa County Water District’s temporary delivery of Central Valley Project. water to Colusa County Tax Assessor’s Parcel Number 021-130-001 through its standing water service contract with Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Dan Horsky, 71, a citizen of the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, pleaded guilty today to his role in a financial fraud conspiracy involving a foreign bank account containing more than $200 million. As part of his plea agreement, Horsky paid a civil penalty of $100 million to the U.S. Treasury for failing to file and filing false Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota today announced the conviction of BRYAN REICHEL, 61, founder and former principal shareholder of PureChoice, Inc. (PureChoice), for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar investment fraud scheme. On July 21, 2015, REICHEL was charged in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Embezzlement Took Place for Nearly a Decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Robin C. Briere (64, Clermont) to 33 months in federal prison for the theft of over $650,000 from the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Florida. She was also ordered to pay $657,441.21 in restitution and to serve three years of supervised release. Briere pleaded guilty to wire fraud on July 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that MATTHEW HARWOOD, 42, of Stratford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to charges stemming from his participation in a large-scale fencing operation.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan support for the 21st Century Cures Act continues to grow stronger by the day. Last week, leading research groups wrote to bipartisan Congressional leadership urging a swift vote on the Cures legislation when Congress returns. That support continues with a letter from...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kilwa Jones, 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: Memphis, TN - A Collierville man has been convicted by a federal jury for unlawfully possessing eight firearms. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty verdict today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument (Monument), including the Slot Canyon, Cave Loop, and Veterans’ Memorial Loop Trail and the Veterans’ Memorial Scenic Overlook, will be closed to visitors on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Matthew L. Dailey, 45, of Howard, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to six years in prison for Hobbs Act extortion under color of official right.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted an Indiana man on fraud charges for holding himself out as a psychiatrist while prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others.
