News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Arthur Vann, age 65, of Aiken, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia to Conspiracy, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs, of Columbia, accepted the guilty plea and will sentence Vann at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Production of Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House sent the Senate its bipartisan proposal to the House-Senate energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court on Nov. 10, 2016, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHIRITA MARIE JAMES, 37, from Elizabeth City, NC, to 135 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lucas Aronson, 31, of Alexandria, was sentenced today to 204 months in prison for production of child pornography, enticing minors to engage in sexually-explicit conduct online and recording the acts. Aronson was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release, register as a sex offender upon release from prison, and to pay a total of $20,000 in restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was convicted late today of wire fraud and perjury charges in connection with a scheme to defraud DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by falsely claiming that the company stole from him the characters and story for its animated movie, Kung Fu Panda.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: On December 3 and 4, 2016, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites the public to enjoy a unique window into the magnitude and scope of Captain Flagg’s 1864 US Quartermaster City. Everything that General Philip Sheridan’s army would need to fight in the Shenandoah Valley was stored and moved out...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), today issued the following statement after the House sent the Senate its bipartisan proposal to the House-Senate energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Anthony Taylor, 59, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David B. Watson, Sr., 66, of Madison, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on November 7, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), today issued the following statement after the House sent the Senate its bipartisan proposal to the House-Senate energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: This morning, President-elect Donald Trump announced that U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) would be his choice for Attorney General. We need an Attorney General who represents the American people’s best interests by fighting to strengthen voting rights, prevent violence against women, and work to reform ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Third Degree Burglary and Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found D. Anda Norbergs (61, Palm Harbor) guilty of 17 counts of receipt and delivery of misbranded drugs, 12 counts of smuggling goods into the United States, 11 counts of health care fraud, and 5 counts of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of an ongoing undercover operation by Special Agents with the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), five fraudulent “documents mills" have been dismantled in recent months, and the investigation has now resulted in charges against 13 defendants who allegedly produced bogus identity documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William R. Sherman, Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced that ROBERTO PONCE-ROCHA was extradited from Colombia where he had been arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ernest R. Cook, 58, of Bangor, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography and using the internet intending to view child pornography. Cook was indicted for those crimes in November 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerome Tallington, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin and conspiracy to commit such offenses, was sentenced to 21 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
