News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A new National Park Service report shows that 2.78 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2016. That record visitation and spending supported 18,000 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Harrison, Arkansas - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,785,358 visitors to Buffalo National River in 2016 spent $77,556,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,200 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $90,199,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Mississippi Tax Return Preparers Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 42-year-old Odessa man and ex-police officer has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for attempted enticement of a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Chad Michael Bennett pleaded guilty March 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A brother and sister have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob a bank by placing a hoax bomb at an elementary school to divert police, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido and Alabama Fire Marshal Scott F. Pilgreen.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: CHEROKEE, AL - The Natchez Trace Parkway will partner with the Chickasaw Nation and the Natchez Trace Parkway Association to celebrate the unveiling of the American Indian themed wayside exhibits. The event takes place at Colbert Ferry on April 27, 2017 at 10 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today that Walgreen Co. (Walgreens) has paid $9.86 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act when it knowingly submitted claims for reimbursement to California’s Medi-Cal program that were not supported by applicable diagnosis and documentation requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The sheriff of Fentress County, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to three counts of honest services fraud and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the guilty plea of JEFFREY LEE LONGTAIN, 58, for filing a false tax return. LONGTAIN, who was charged on March 1, 2017, by felony information, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 20, 2017, defendant Xavier González-Calderon was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández to serve a term of imprisonment of 41 months as to counts 24 and 25 of the indictment to be served concurrently with each other, 3 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kyle Maurice Parks was sentenced to 300 months in prison for his involvement in the transportation of four minors (ages 15-17) and two adults from Ohio to Missouri to engage in prostitution. The plan was to come to sell the girls on Backpage.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Antwan Harper, a/k/a “Pappy" (22, Jacksonville) to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison for sex trafficking a child. The Court also ordered him to serve a five-year term of supervision after his release from prison, and to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 10, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Christopher Dean Bandstra, 43, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 20, 2017, for bank robbery. Bandstra was arrested in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received 40 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment and $2,640.00 in restitution. This case was investigated by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Tourism to Sleeping Bear Dunes Creates Over $231 Million in Economic Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that, following a 17-day civil trial, Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny dismissed a medical malpractice lawsuit seeking $25,000,000 in damages brought by plaintiffs Edward and Roxanne Blake against the Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Graham, 46, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of aiding and abetting a bank robbery by use of a dangerous weapon, was sentenced to 84 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force and Sexual Abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Rapid City on April 13, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to request a briefing from EPA on the proposed draconian cuts to the Agency. The request comes after a report by the Washington Post about...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Antwan Harper, a/k/a “Pappy" (22, Jacksonville) to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison for sex trafficking a child. The Court also ordered him to serve a five-year term of supervision after his release from prison, and to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 10, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dwayne Brice, 37, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to theft of government money, before Senior U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
