News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg, West Virginia, returned an indictment today charging Christopher M. Delauder, 27, of Moundsville, West Virginia, with distributing marijuana, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luis Aguilar Torres, 35, of the United Kingdom and Ecuador, pleaded guilty to reentering the United States after a conviction for an aggravated felony before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: On Oct. 31, 2016, Carrie Case, age 42, was sentenced by Honorable Chief District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp following her conviction for wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information. Chief Judge Smith Camp sentenced Case to three years of probation.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $331 million in 85 projects that will improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural areas in 39 states and American Samoa. Community infrastructure investments are a key piece...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Leon Homero Hernandez, 42, a U.S. citizen residing in Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office will host a public informational meeting on November 10 in Thermopolis to discuss a proposed expansion to a bentonite mining project in Hot Springs County. The meeting will be held from 5-7 p.m. at Big Horn Federal Savings Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Caroline D. Ciraolo, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced that WILLIAM DOONAN, an attorney who operated a tax preparation business in the Bronx...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: On Oct. 31, 2016, Carrie Case, age 42, was sentenced by Honorable Chief District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp following her conviction for wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information. Chief Judge Smith Camp sentenced Case to three years of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Stephen Roy Walker, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho was sentenced today in United States District Court to 300 months in prison followed by 25 years supervised release, for transportation and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Walker pleaded guilty on August 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Robert David Liles of Elberta, Alabama, was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment following a July 2016 guilty plea to a charge of possession of stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Submitted False Claims to Federal Health Insurance Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOMINIQUE MACK, also known as “Lil Sweets," 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to life imprisonment. On April 27, 2016, a jury found MACK guilty of conspiring to commit witness tampering by murdering one individual and planning to murder a second individual.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YOANDRYS CUE, 31, a citizen of Cuba last residing in Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a multi-state burglary spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Oct. 31, 2016, Steven Edward Meierding, 50, Minneapolis, Minn., pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to One Count of Sex Trafficking of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg, West Virginia, returned an indictment today charging Johnny D. Floyd, Sr., 42, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with distributing heroin and crack cocaine and illegal possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of four members to serve on the 2017 American Lamb Board. Each appointee will serve 3-year terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Daniel Hill, age 44, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a stolen gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Caldwell, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning by FBI agents for fraudulently using funds that he solicited for bulk medical supply and consumer goods transactions, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that Mohamed Fadiga, 43, of Indianapolis, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Philip Simon for possession of counterfeit or unauthorized access devices. Fadiga was found guilty by a jury after a 2-day trial.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - For manufacturing industry workers, amputation is serious risk and the cause of more than a 1,400 serious injuries each year. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration received reports of more than 2,600 amputations nationwide - 57 percent of them suffered by manufacturing workers.
