News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Brea man was sentenced today to 109 months in custody for operating a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Michael Wesley (49, North Port) to 27 months in federal prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the banks involved. Wesley pleaded guilty on Dec. 12, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, MT. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Billings Curation Center (BCC) will host its seventh annual Artifact Road Show Thursday, April 13th from 1 to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Amber Alert Led to Minor's Recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Also Announces Payments to Date of Over $118 Million to Full Tilt Poker Victim Players.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Brea man was sentenced today to 109 months in custody for operating a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - The National Park Service's only international peace memorial, located on South Bass Island, will undergo $1.86 million in cleaning and repairs this summer. The 352-foot tall Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial will be inaccessible this summer while workers clean and re-point the exterior of the granite column, and replace broken tile in the interior of the memorial simultaneously.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former federal prison guard was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for taking bribes to smuggle tobacco to inmates, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Reiterates Zero Tolerance Of Violence Directed At Law Enforcement Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: CORRECTION: In our original press release, the sentences listed for Defendants Grant and Benton were in error. As noted below, Defendant Benton pled guilty to drug conspiracy and was sentenced to 5 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release; Defendant Grant pled guilty to use of a communication facility and was sentenced to 27 months in prison and 1 year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 7, 2017, NATHANIEL SMITH, 30, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fired Shotgun Round Toward Victim and Shouted, “Move … Out of Oildale".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Douglas Humilestewa, 53 of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Humilestewa will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Two men who were convicted in unrelated cases on child pornography offenses have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison sentences by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Sissonville man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jeffrey Phelix, 32, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to a $555,000 wire fraud scheme and to failing to pay taxes on any of the embezzled income.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Acting U.S. Attorney Jim Durham, ATF RAC Tim Graden, District Attorney Meg Heap, SCMPD Chief Joseph Lumpkin, CNT Deputy Commander Terry Shoop and other federal and state law enforcement officials will hold a news conference today to discuss the results of joint federal and state law enforcement...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Inspectors General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Commerce (DOC), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging David Earl Johnson (36, Bradenton) with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and distribution of fentanyl. If convicted on the first charge, he faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years...
