News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Assistant U.S. Attorneys James P. Gillis, Randy Stoker, and L. Margaret Harker have been appointed to serve as District Election Officers (DEO) for the Eastern District of Virginia, and will lead the efforts of this office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming general elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAWN MILLER, also known as “White Boy Shawn," 32, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine. Judge Meyer also ordered MILLER to pay a $2,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Russia's attempt to influence the election and the controversy surrounding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent two letters to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in connection with the Partial Consent Decree in the case of Volkswagen “Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The City of Fairfield and the Fairfield Housing Authority (FHA) paid $680,000 to settle federal False Claims Act allegations that they received grants to fund two coordinator positions for a federal housing program but did not use the funds for that purpose, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Texas pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Shreveport area with another Texas man.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Wilkes-Barre man was charged with making false statements to a federally licensed firearm dealer.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah today rescheduled the postponed November 2015 oil and gas lease sale for Feb. 16, 2016, by posting the Notice of Competitive Lease Sale and list of parcels proposed for auction. The rescheduled sale is being combined with the already scheduled February 2016 sale. Posting initiates a new 30-day public protest period for all parcels.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Desloge, Mo., man, who was arrested after a high-speed chase in Callaway County, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury today for robbing a Blue Springs, Mo., bank and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park is seeking comments for a proposed project to do standard trail realignment on the Shoshone Lake Trail in the southwest portion of the park. The work will occur on a portion of the trail near the south shore of Shoshone Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Eleven Guilty Pleas to Date in Largest Debt Collection Scheme Ever Prosecuted.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gregory Secatero, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on federal assault charges.
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 Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent two letters to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in connection with the Partial Consent Decree in the case of Volkswagen “Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, AK - Poor weather conditions again thwarted efforts by a search team to locate a missing pilot and plane in Lake Clark National Park & Preserve yesterday. Search efforts will continue today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Tennessee man was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison for launching cyber-attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg, West Virginia, returned an indictment today charging Timothy A. Yeigh, 28, of Camden on Gauley, West Virginia, with failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
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 Nyzhon N. Bell, 19, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with distributing heroin and illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Noel, Mo., men and a Crocker, Mo., man were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski County, Mo., and McDonald County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Vandegrift, 29, of Wellsburg, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a minimum of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
