News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Bobbi Gibson (45, Mount Dora) with 30 counts of wire fraud. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. The indictment also notifies Gibson that the United States is seeking a money judgment in the amount of at least $1.5 million, the proceeds of the wire fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Following a successful, event-filled day on the anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service on Aug. 25, the next set of Centennial events occurring at the national seashore will be on September 24. Activities include volunteer projects as part of the nationwide National Public Lands...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man who kidnapped a teenage boy and girl in Sacramento, Calif., in July 2012, and repeatedly raped the girl in both Sacramento and later in Reno, was sentenced today to 40 years in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Monday, September 12 the National Park Service received a satellite phone call from a commercial river trip reporting a missing guide near River Mile 137 also known as Pancho's Kitchen.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Thomas M. Calderon, a former member of the California State Assembly who became a political consultant, was sentenced this afternoon to one year and one day of incarceration after he pleaded guilty to money laundering for allowing bribe money to be funneled through his firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael C. Matzen, age 36, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for committing 2 bank robberies in 2 days in East Greenbush and Latham.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) welcomes 2016’s September Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Phillip Sterling, a Michigan author currently working and living in Lowell, MI. Mr. Sterling is the author of In Which Brief Stories Are Told (short fiction, Wayne State University Press Made...
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of a resolution supporting the goal of ensuring that all Holocaust victims live with dignity, comfort, and security in their remaining years (S.Con.Res. 46 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Thomas M. Calderon, a former member of the California State Assembly who became a political consultant, was sentenced this afternoon to one year and one day of incarceration after he pleaded guilty to money laundering for allowing bribe money to be funneled through his firm.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is honored to host a United States Citizenship and Naturalization Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. New citizens will take their Oath of Allegiance to the United States at the ceremony, which will take place at 2 p.m. in the Homestead Education Center's courtyard. The public is encouraged to attend.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives supporting a resolution commemorating the life and work of Elie Wiesel (H.Res.810 )...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released two undercover reports of the Obamacare marketplace with testing results for the 2015 and 2016 coverage years.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) announcement that it will suspend efforts to recover the critically endangered red wolf in eastern North Carolina...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: From October '16 through March '17, the National Park Service (NPS) will continue managing white-tailed deer at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. Gettysburg and Eisenhower national parks are reducing the number of deer in the parks directly by shooting. All venison will once again be donated to Gettysburg area food banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced the recent sentencing of Joseph John Holm, Jr., who was convicted of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheldon Harris, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing two Albuquerque-area fast food restaurants and to brandishing a firearm during the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Douglas Rae, 59, plead guilty today to wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering for defrauding his employer, QVC, a television based retail company, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice and New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster announced today that both the United States Attorney's Office and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office will staff voting inquiry and complaint lines at their respective offices throughout the day and evening on during the State Primary Election on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Sept. 12, 2016, Tommy Trent 29, Fargo, North Dakota, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve two (2) years in prison followed by three (3) years of supervised release for Interference with Commerce by Threats or Violence- Hobbs Act Robbery. Judge Erickson also ordered Trent to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Seventh and Final Defendant Pled Guilty to Participating in a $36 Million Fraud Scheme Involving Fourteen Low-Income Housing Developments.
