News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Andrew Christopher Shaver, 22, of Grafton, West Virginia, pled guilty today to a federal firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Rodney Vincent Ortiz and Vincent Rudy Ortiz (collectively, the defendants) pleaded guilty today in federal court today for their respective roles in the March 21, 2015, drug related shooting and murder on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Humboldt County, Calif., announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MATILDA KAY BIRDTAIL, age 21, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: FUSIONPHARM, INC. (OTC Ticker Symbol: FSPM).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former University of Missouri employee was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $781,000 from the school over a 13-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Harris Hickman, 33, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Dear Acting Director Cobert: On Feb. 18, 2015, I wrote to your predecessor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta, regarding a practice known as “burrowing in" or “conversion," in which political appointees convert to career positions in the competitive service, the Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Beating African-American Stranger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Zane David Memeger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA), has announced his resignation effective midnight on December 23rd. U.S. Attorney Memeger has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since May 6, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that today Raymond L. Blackmer, III, 52, was sentenced to a term of 70 months in federal prison. Blackmer, formerly of Easthampton, Massachusetts, previously had pleaded guilty to the federal crime of Illegal Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - John W. Jackson, Jr., and Corry Sandlin, have been sentenced in federal district court for stealing their deceased parent's government benefits. Each defendant lied to the government about their parent’s deaths, and continued to receive benefits destined for the deceased.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed six members to the Softwood Lumber Board to serve 3-year terms of office beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, 41-year-old Samuel Velasco Gurrola pleaded guilty to his role in the Velasco Criminal Enterprise (VCE) announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Bernards Township, New Jersey, alleging that the township violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a mosque on land it owns. The land is located in a zone that, at the time of the Islamic Society’s zoning request, permitted the construction of places of worship as a matter of right.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 30,000 metric tons of soybean oil for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is now offering Christmas tree permits for sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 21, 2016, Jason A. Kiedrowski (age: 39) of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced for the crime of entering a financial institution with the intent to commit larceny in violation of Title 18 United States Code Section 2113(a). .
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron P. Arnzen (619) 546-8384 and Billy Joe McLain 619-546-6762.
