News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Regis L. Walker, 30, of Pensacola, has been arrested on a charge of mailing threatening communications. The criminal complaint was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Former NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Taking Bribes from Defense Contractor in Massive Fraud and Corruption Scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH -United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced BRENT ALLAN DILONARDO, 58, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to 30 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and $219,304 restitution. On July 11, 2016, DILONARDO pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) arrested nine defendants this week in connection with their roles in a $100 million health care fraud conspiracy perpetrated against TRICARE, the health insurance program for members...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture transmitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review three rules first issued in 2010, commonly referred to as the GIPSA rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke sentenced John Blayne Vangastel, 37, of Klamath Falls, to five years of probation following his guilty plea to one count of using force or threat of force to intimidate and interfere with the housing rights of his neighbors because of their Vietnamese descent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Michael Kelly (29, Largo) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
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: 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: SCRANTON. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge Malachy Mannion sentenced Thomas Abreu, Jr., age 35, to 93 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute heroin, and for possessing three stolen firearms in the course of his narcotics trafficking activities.
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: Investigators seized 600 videos and more than 175,000 images of child pornography.
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: Bludgeoned a Fellow Inmate, Who Had Testified in a Federal Criminal Trial, Using a Sock Filled with Batteries and Dominoes.
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 Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report on federal expenditures related to harmful algal blooms. The report was requested as part of Rep. Bob Latta’s (R-OH) H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act, which was signed into law in August of 2015...
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 DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report on federal expenditures related to harmful algal blooms. The report was requested as part of Rep. Bob Latta’s (R-OH) H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act, which was signed into law in August of 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Thursday to 121 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gregory Stonoha, 24, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
