News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A U.S. Navy sailor who recorded himself engaging in sexual acts with minors was sentenced today to 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Wayne Chester Lawton, 69, of Worland, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 13, 2017, for possession of child pornography. Lawton was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 70 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former United Parcel Service (UPS) employee was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that shipped cocaine concealed in UPS packages from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today announced the Committee will hold its second Farm Bill field hearing of the 115th Congress in Frankenmuth, Mich. on Saturday, May 6 to begin work on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A jury has convicted a Memphis man of illegally possessing ammunition while a convicted felon. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury sitting in the District of Colorado returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging a Colorado resident with tax evasion, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that SAMANTHA LEE SMITH, age 22, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule intended to stabilize the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Southeast Texas men were sentenced today to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: In response to a technical assistance request from the Northway Village Council, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy recently engaged experts from DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to complete energy efficiency and renewable energy assessments on four community buildings for the Village of Northway, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael R. Bush, age 48, of Fort Edward, New York, pled guilty today to three counts of receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Jason Taylor, age 42, of Highland, Utah, convicted last year of bilking thousands of credit card customers and the banks that issued the credit cards out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, pleaded guilty to contempt of court Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Mills today ordered a New Canton, Ill., man, Ralph David Hathaway, 48, to serve 400 months (33 years, 4 months) in federal prison for transporting a minor with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity and two counts of travel with intent to...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington District announces that it is seeking public nominations for four positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land issues within the Farmington District. As advertised in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations until May 30, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) has dramatically improved the performance of its fire protection system over the past five years, with contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) reducing by more than 80 percent the number of issues that could cause fire protection or life safety operations to work incorrectly.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Clique Member Involved in Assaulting Gang Rival and Selling Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on Bank Robbery in Dania Beach, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Wichita men were sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison in connection with an armed robbery at a Wichita bank, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: HELENA - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Richard Charles Saari, 33, of East Helena, was sentenced to a term of 135 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, and a special assessment of $100 during a federal court hearing in Helena, Montana, on April 12, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell. In addition, the defendant was also required to pay a $5,000 assessment for the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: A Houston couple is set to appear in federal court on charges they fraudulently billed more than $24 million to Medicare through several home health companies, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Oluyemisi Amos, 35, and her husband Felix Amos, 66, are charged in an eight-count indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and money laundering.
