News published on Federal Newswire in September 2016

News from September 2016


News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Nathan Robert Wesley Johnson, age 26, of West Fork, was sentenced today to 300 months imprisonment followed by 25 years of supervised release for Production of Child Pornography. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.


News Release: Husband Charged with Harboring a Fugitive.


News Release: An office manager of a small dental practice in Mason City, Iowa who stole nearly $500,000 from her employer over the course of almost a decade pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement of a new 10-year Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Israel...


New York Man Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Role in Sales of Illegally Diverted Prescription Drugs

News Release: CINCINNATI - Albert D. Nassar, 59, of New York City, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with the illegal sale of prescription drugs bearing false pedigrees that misrepresented the sources and origins of the drugs.


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Randal Wilson pled guilty to nine counts of wire fraud involving his misappropriation of over $80,000 from the Ethical Society of Police, an association of black St. Louis police officers.


Dearborn Heights Resident Pleads Guilty to Illegal Possession of Firearm

News Release: A 22-year-old Dearborn Heights man pleaded guilty today to charges of making a false statement to acquire a firearm and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.


News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Houston man has entered a plea of guilty to two counts of sex trafficking by the use of force, fraud and coercion, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Duenweg Sex Offender Sentenced to 17 Years for Child Porn

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a convicted sex offender in Duenweg, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet.


Ex-postal service contract driver from Lafayette pleads guilty to stealing from DeRidder area mail

News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette woman pleaded guilty last week to stealing from mail while she worked as a contract postal carrier.


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jennica A. Duell, age 28, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for providing false testimony before a grand jury investigating the May 2013 fire that killed three of her children and their father, as well as seriously injured a fourth child.


Levin Statement on U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Income & Poverty and Health Insurance Reports

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual reports on income and poverty and health insurance coverage for 2015...


2016 Prairie Visions Photography Festival at Homestead National Monument of America

News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is hosting the Prairie Visions Photography Festival on Sunday Sept. 25, 2016 at Homestead National Monument of America's Education Center from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Photographer Matt Elwood will lead a discussion on taking good photographs.


Panamanian National Pleads Guilty to False Statement in a Passport Application and Reentry of Removed Alien

News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CAROL JOHN, a/k/a INES ISABEL RUIZ, a/k/a CAROL ATKINS, age 56, a citizen of Panama, pled guilty today to a two-count Indictment charging her with making a false statement in an application for a U.S. passport and reentry of a removed alien.


News Release: Idaho Falls, ID-- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Sept. 20-21, 2016 in Salmon, Idaho at the Public Lands Center located at 1206 South Challis.


Oregon Church Executive Director of Camp and Retreat Ministries Indicted in Colorado for Producing and Transporting Child Pornography

News Release: DENVER - An Oregon man made his initial appearance in Denver for production and transportation of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer of the District of Colorado.


News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawna Tolpa, 48, of Moundsville, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court today to embezzling over $52,000 from United Bank in Marshall County, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


All National Parks FREE for Public Lands Day (Camp Verde)

News Release: On Saturday, September 24th, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will waive entrance fees in honor of Public Lands Day.


United States Challenges Excessive Chinese Support for Rice, Wheat and Corn

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Obama Administration has launched a new trade enforcement action against the People's Republic of China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) concerning excessive government support provided for Chinese production of rice, wheat, and corn. United States Trade Representative Michael...


News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Gary Smith, Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) for the Mid-States Field Division are warning taxpayers about an aggressive impersonation telephone scam targeting taxpayers.