News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Rayanne Paulman, 35, of Hershey, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Lincoln for conspiring to distribute child pornography. The Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Paulman to 9 years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After her release from prison, Paulman will begin a ten-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Lamar Ivory (25, Jacksonville), also known as “Thug Life," guilty of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tammy A. Grumme, age 41, of Glenmont, New York, pled guilty today to stealing nearly $80,000 from the Social Security Administration (SSA), including $40,629 in benefits intended for her son.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Everyone is invited to help Bureau of Land Management Wyoming celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Friday, Oct. 21, at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper at 2:30 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Springdale, UT- Zion National Park Foundation is hosting 24 artists for a week of creativity and inspiration, November 7-13, 2016, as part of the eighth annual Zion National Park Plein Air Art Invitational. It is being billed as the "Centennial Edition," celebrating the influence of original art in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Oct. 14, 2016, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Junaidu Saljan Savage, a/k/a James Kamara, age 30, of Lanham, Maryland, to 87 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit bank fraud and for aggravated identity...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last week, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, traveled to Mexico and Central America and met with government officials, as well as key leaders in the private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs),...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Quick Carpentry Inc. 4501 Bleigh Avenue, Apt. A. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspection site: 258 Gordon Road, Lot 8. Robbinsville, New Jersey. Citations issued: On Sept. 26, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the company citations for...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a joint majority staff report this week, “Empowering Inspectors General: Supporting the IG Community...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Oct. 13, 2016, a Burlington jury convicted Michael J. Foreste, aka “Beast," of Valley Stream, New York of 10 charges related to his oxycodone trafficking in Vermont over a six-year period. Specifically, the jury convicted...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: DENVER - The alleged leader of an organization that illegally imported the drug “ecstasy" from Europe into the United States was extradited from Romania to Denver, Colorado, where he will face drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2016
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent David Hallac is happy to announce that the National Park Service visitor center, off-road vehicle permit office, and campground on Ocracoke Island will reopen on Monday, October 17.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Fairfield Project is USDA's Largest-Ever Water System Investment in Iowa CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 14, 2016 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today announced funding through USDA's Water and Environmental programs to help the City of Fairfield make enhancements to its wastewater facility that will improve the water quality in southeast Iowa.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Over the past seven years, USDA has worked with private landowners to implement voluntary conservation practices that conserve and clean the water we drink. USDA support-leveraged with historic outside investments-boosts producer incomes and rewards them for their good work. At the same time, USDA investments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: A Phenix City, Alabama man was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: An Israeli national was extradited from Bulgaria and arraigned on charges arising from his participation in multiple schemes to defraud a multi-billion dollar United States foreign aid program, the Department of Justice announced today. According to the allegations contained in a five-count indictment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Jason Michael Ludke, 35, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Yosvany Padylla-Conde, 30, also of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged in the same complaint with aiding and abetting Ludke’s attempt to provide material support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: A former executive of Coach USA Inc. was criminally charged with obstructing justice and pleaded guilty today for concealing and attempting to destroy documents relevant to a civil antitrust investigation and for providing false and misleading statements during the course of the litigation, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, both 49, and of Liberal, Kansas, and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47, of Wright, Kansas, appeared in federal court to face a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives), in connection with their plot to detonate bombs at an apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas where Somali immigrants live and worship.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Travis Reynolds, 21, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to one count of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to damage the property of a reproductive health services facility because of the services offered there.
