News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Steven Edward Baker, age 41, of Kensington, Maryland, today to 17 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for producing child pornography. Judge Grimm also ordered that upon his release from prison, Baker must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: United Sates Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that JASON MICHAEL LUDKE (age: 35) of Milwaukee, has been charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, ISIL, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free, 90-minute ranger-guided car caravan tour on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, at.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to invite community members to join us in providing visitor information and interpretation at the Manhattan Project NHP visitor center on 20th Street, Los Alamos. Volunteers will receive training in Los Alamos and Manhattan Project history, customer service, and orientation to National Park Service operations. The training will be provided by NPS and Los Alamos Historical Society staff, beginning October 18.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Elliot L. Engel, and Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to evidence that...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 or Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: MISSOULA - John Stewart Davis, 71, of Coram, Montana was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for dealing in firearms without a license and making and transferring a machinegun. Chief District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: “Hollywood" and “Donald Trump" stamped heroin connected to overdose deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A New Jersey resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Oct. 24-25, beginning at 1 p.m. on the first day and at 9 a.m. the second day. The RAC placer mining subcommittee will meet Oct. 24 from 9-11:45 a.m. Both meetings will be held at the BLM Alaska State Office, Denali conference room, located on the fourth floor of the federal courthouse building, at 222 W 7th Avenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who operated tax preparation businesses in Nevada and Utah from 2004 to 2010, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay approximately $182,000 in restitution, for aiding and assisting in the preparation of multiple fraudulent individual income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gina Paglianite, age 48, of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment for selling cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to emailing bomb threats to multiple schools and universities in three different states.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - Crews from the Bureau of Land Management will begin a wildfire fuels reduction project October 20 in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The project is expected to take about three weeks.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, top Democratic leaders from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx urging that the Department take immediate actions to ensure the safe operation of New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released a statement after the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit with alarming findings regarding the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) information technology (IT) management.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Austin Lawrence Siferd, 24, of Cleburne, Texas, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to six months in federal prison, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -Three men from southwest Kansas were charged in federal court here today with conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants from Somalia live and worship, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Paul F. Archambault, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of production, receipt and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
