News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, was convicted by a jury in federal court today for murdering another inmate, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights or District of Columbia charges against an officer from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) who fatally shot Terrence Sterling on Sept. 11, 2016, in Northwest Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Today, a federal jury found a Texas man guilty of conspiring to transport methamphetamine and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Profited By Selling To Investors Worthless ForceField Energy Stock That Purported To Be Worldwide Distributor of LED Lighting Products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon who fired a handgun near Wrigley Field was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has again cited a North Florida roofing contractor for failing to protect its workers from the risks of dangerous falls and other hazards at two St. Augustine work sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today released international firearms trace data reports for the top five reporting Caribbean nations, Canada, Mexico and several Central American countries. The trace data is gathered from ATF’s National Tracing Center (NTC), the nation’s only crime gun tracing facility, and relates to firearms recovered in these countries by law enforcement who have requested ATF traces.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, ATF Special Agent in Charge Mickey D. Leadingham and New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell today announced that a long-term investigation into numerous shooting incidents in New Haven has resulted in federal racketeering, attempted murder, firearm and narcotics trafficking offenses against alleged members and associates of a local New Haven street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN POWELL pled guilty today to one count of fraud in connection with his scheme to obtain unauthorized access to more than 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City area university in order to download sexually explicit photos and videos. POWELL pled guilty earlier today in Manhattan federal court before United States District Judge Alison J. Nathan.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: In celebration of the National Park Service turning 101 years old, Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting a combined birthday party and an Art in the Park reception on Friday, Aug. 25, at Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. The festivities will begin at 5:00 p.m. (ET).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Duson pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection to a scheme to defraud a Eunice pipeline company out of more than $2.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 60-year-old doctor from Rockwall, Texas, Jacques Roy, who was convicted in April 2016 of various health care fraud charges following a six-week-long trial, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 420 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $268,147,699.15 in restitution, joint and several with all codefendants to Medicare and Medicaid, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging five violent north Texas men with multiple charges related to violent robberies that occurred in north Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Wyatt Erb, age 47, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on August 8, 2017, by a federal grand jury for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, was convicted by a jury in federal court today for murdering another inmate, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal jury in Medford convicted Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 34, of Bowie, Maryland and Nigeria of 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As a result of several long-term DEA investigations, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today identified Mexican national Raul Flores Hernandez and the Flores Drug Trafficking (Flores DTO) as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a trip to New Mexico, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced he and the Department - through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - intend to finalize the process to consider whether to accept the donation of 3,595 acres (formerly known as the Rimrock Rose Ranch) that are adjacent to Sabinoso Wilderness to be included as part of the wilderness.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park’s Jenny Lake Rangers recently conducted two overnight search and rescue efforts. During the first rescue, rangers assisted a climber who slipped and fell on snow while descending the Middle Teton. The second rescue consisted of a helicopter extraction of two climbers who became disoriented and stranded while descending Mt. Moran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Fabio Gasperini, an Italian citizen, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis following his conviction by a federal jury in Brooklyn of one count of computer intrusion. The defendant was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence of one year of imprisonment...
