News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 336 months in prison, five years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine based on his guilty plea to violently assaulting Steven Nelson because he was a gay man, resulting in Mr. Nelson’s death, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., for the District of Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Matthew Bryan Caniff (33, Gainesville) to 15 years in federal prison for attempted online enticement of a child to engage in sexual activity, online solicitation of child pornography, and attempted production of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement marking the second anniversary of protests against Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: APR 27 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Lee Parowski, 29, of Stratford, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Syria After the Missile Strikes: Policy Options." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced an indictment was unsealed against Michael Shirley, 55, of Doniphan, Nebraska. The Indictment charges Shirley with two counts of distribution of methamphetamine in September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old man from Conroe has been ordered to prison for bank fraud and stealing more than $484,000 from Weatherford, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Kiran Andhavarapu pleaded guilty Feb. 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Long-term Boone County heroin trafficking investigation has led to several convictions and prison sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cortney Vogt, 37, of Ontario, NY, pleaded guilty to bank fraud before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Salt Waste Processing Facility is scheduled to begin operations in December 2018, with contractor Parsons getting support from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the site's management and operations contractor, and Savannah River National Laboratory to ensure it remains on track.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a slate of bills to expand and improve our nation’s water and power infrastructure. The bills represent one segment of the Committee’s contributions to broader infrastructure legislation being developed in the House and Senate.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: TOWSON, Md. - EM Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Management Melody Bell represented DOE at the Towson University Environmental Conference earlier this month. Bell gave an overview of EM to students and faculty, answered questions about career skills needed for environmental work, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Andrew Bassaner, age 44 and Vicki Bunchuk, age 44, of Southampton, Pennsylvania were arrested today, when a 27-count indictment was unsealed, which charged the couple with various criminal tax fraud violations including conspiracy to defraud the United States, filing false individual, corporate and employment tax returns and with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ignacio Beato, age 46, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was charged in a one count criminal information on April 26, 2017, with conspiracy to engage in monetary transactions through a financial institution, with funds that were the proceeds of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Exodus Jerrod Strowbridge (42, North Port) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing cocaine and “crack" cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Smith & Wesson handgun and 12 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, 64-year-old former Val Verde County Precinct 1 Commissioner Ramiro V. Ramon pleaded guilty to charges that he underreported his total income on three separate federal Income Tax Returns. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Thurlo Eugene Clark, 72, of Bonner Ferry, Idaho, pleaded guilty on April 25, 2017, to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced. Clark was charged by an information that was filed on April 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old man from Conroe has been ordered to prison for bank fraud and stealing more than $484,000 from Weatherford, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Kiran Andhavarapu pleaded guilty Feb. 9, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) issuance of an interim rule that will delay its final rule on menu labeling requirements, scheduled to take effect on May 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of PCP through the mail.
