News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Muhanad Elfatih M.A. Badawi, 25, of Anaheim, California, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with another man to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an effort to assess the effectiveness of federal disclosure requirements intended to fight the misuse use of shell companies, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today sent a letter to the heads of the Treasury Department and IRS requesting detailed reports on filings by the thousands of firms linked to the Panama Papers.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Trying to decide how much fertilizer to use in fields producing forage grasses is a challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Twilla Marie St. Pierre, 39, of Worley, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft or receipt of stolen mail matter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. St. Pierre was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: OCT 19 - NEW HAVEN, 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 Alex Garcia, 38, of Danbury, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 360 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for shooting and killing a Danbury man traveling on I-84 in January 2000.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct two prescribed burns at Deer Haven and Trail Gulch this fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Augustine Jackson, 32, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Jackson was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced this afternoon to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with another man to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Matthew Anthony Keller, 24, of Watauga, Texas, who, according to police reports, taught at Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L Cureton and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: 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 Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host two free public tours of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, October 28. The corral is one of three in Nevada that provides care to wild horses and burros removed from the range. Tour attendees will have the opportunity to view horses recently gathered from public lands in central and eastern Nevada due to limited water availability and reduced forage growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Scott Smith Named Assistant Director for the Cyber Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN B. JEFFREY, also known as TUCKER JEFFREY, 49, formerly of New Canaan, Conn., and currently a resident of Denver, Colo., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding investors of more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan was sentenced today, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to serve an additional 18 months in prison on the charge of assaulting a federal corrections officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Corey Earl Engelen, age 47, of Parker, Colorado pled guilty last week before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to money laundering announced Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Troyer and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne. Engelen and his co-defendant Michael Todd Osborn were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on Feb. 11, 2015. Engelen is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Arguello on Jan. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the House Judiciary Committee’s majority alleged that newly-released FBI interview notes “raise serious questions about whether Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy violated federal laws. . by offering a ‘quid pro quo’ to the FBI." The interview notes contain no factual basis for these claims...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced plans to establish a Joint Organic Compliance Committee to enhance cooperation and ensure the integrity of organic products traded between the United States and Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Edward Joseph Matish III, 25, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of accessing with intent to view child pornography involving a prepubescent minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn Lamont McClain, 37, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced for the distribution of heroin mixed with fentanyl and will now serve a total of 18 years in prison, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The absence of fall protection equipment exposed six temporary employees to falls of up to 60 feet as they welded and attached steel braces on a commercial construction site in Columbus. A dangerous oversight given that falls account for nearly 40 percent of work-related fatalities - the construction industry's leading cause of death.
