News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 18 defendants have been taken into custody in Laredo, San Antonio and other areas of the country on charges involving cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A federal jury has found a cardiologist from Ashland, Ky., guilty of charges that he fraudulently billed Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers for invasive heart procedures that were medically unnecessary.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Dear Director Comey: On Oct. 28, 2016, I received your letter supplementing your testimony to the Committee about the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server. In your letter, you stated that “the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 27, of Sterling, a former member of the Army National Guard, pleaded guilty today to charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO -- A former CEO of a traffic light enforcement camera vendor was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for her role in a multi-year bribery and fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman of the Southern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Angela L. Byers of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Transported Juvenile and Adult Females and Coerced them into Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Stacey J. LaPorte, Jr. and MacKenzie Bailey Arrested on Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, with assistance from the FBI, have concluded a comprehensive investigation into the death last year of Mikhail Lesin, a Russian political figure, media executive, and adviser to Vladimir...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: TWENTYNINE PALMS Calif. - Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor approved the first step in an effort to transfer public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Riverside County to the National Park Service. The proposed transfer would involve lands that were part of...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, requested an audit from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) of taxpayer funds expended to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Campaign. During an election season, certain Federal government...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Calif.), the mission has been put on hold due to a series of incoming winter storms forecasted for over the next week. All search teams were taken out of the field Wednesday afternoon in anticipation of the significant weather event, which is forecasted to bring two to three feet of snow at elevations above 8,000 feet and high winds, with gusts up to 75 mph.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Starting Nov. 1, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will charge for all overnight camping as part of a plan to meet national standards for parks with similar visitor amenities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Oct. 28, 2016) - Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings and John Conyers, Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary, sent the following letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man will serve 25 years in federal prison, after admitting in federal court that he distributed fentanyl to an individual in northern Kentucky, who overdosed, but survived after receiving medical treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: OCT 28 - CONCORD, NH - Mark Ross, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of Evangelique Tarmey. The sentencing was announced by Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Wendy Askins, 55, of Red Boiling Springs, former Executive Director for the Upper Cumberland Development District (UCDD), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger to 18 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for misusing the organization’s funds, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Trauger also ordered Askins to pay $233,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo returned a guilty verdict against Davon Lymon, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., on a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition charge based on evidence presented during a two-day bench trial on Oct. 24 and 25, 2016. More specifically...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) began draining the watered canal section from Lock 5 (Towpath Mile 5) to Georgetown (Towpath Mile 0). The draining will allow the reconstruction of Lock 3 and the rehabilitation of Lock...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: A man and woman who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were each sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Craig DeMange (62, Oviedo) guilty of one count of knowingly and willfully making a false statement to a federal agency. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23, 2017.
