News from October 2016
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Eliot 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 the Trump campaign apparently knew months beforehand about the hacking of emails from the account of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 12, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against three individuals involved in drug trafficking on the Mole Lake Indian Reservation in Forest County. The indictment named Anthony Quintana (age: 43) and Karen Quintana (age: 39) of Weston, and Diana Alvarado (age: 39) from the Town of Nashville in Forest County, Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore will host a community conversation, "The Changing Cape: A Conversation about Protecting Places that Matter in Our Communities," on Tuesday, October 18 from 7:00-8:30 PM at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. The conversation is part of a series of programs led by University...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PAUL BELLOFIORE, M.D., 56, of Trumbull, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of issuing unlawful prescriptions for oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced three members of a Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina family relating to dog fighting, drug, and firearm conviction.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Chad Jason Lansford (31, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for sending notices over the Internet soliciting images of child pornography from a 9 year old child. He was also ordered to serve a 10 year term...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on Oct. 17, 2016, Luke Roderick Lowe and Marguarite Jean Keicher, both residents of Sitka, Alaska were sentenced in federal court in Juneau for their role in a drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Ketchikan, Alaska.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Members of the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, have participated and continue to participate in events in honor of community policing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with a Fort Lauderdale Bank Robbery Yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Rafael Sanchez (69, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Sanchez has agreed to make full restitution to the Clerk of Court for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Smith, III, 48, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of mail fraud for a decade-long scheme to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Local 970 of over $1 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kenneth Apple, 65, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for his role in awarding $2 million in micro-dairy contracts from the U.S. government for use in Iraq. The court also ordered Apple to serve three years of supervised release, pay approximately $1.9 million in restitution, and forfeit $551,838.73.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kirk Castor, 36, of Kirtland, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), today announced it is issuing an emergency order to ban all Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone devices from air transportation ...
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: OCT 14 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Paul Bellofiore, M.D., 56, of Trumbull, pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of issuing unlawful prescriptions for oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Reginald Jake Farrow, 31, of Richmond, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to make, forge, counterfeit and pass federal reserve notes. Farrow was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay full restitution.
