News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a former executive board member of the Big Coulee District of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe was sentenced in federal court on Aug. 17, 2017, to 10 months of imprisonment. Carrie Godfrey, 52, of Sisseton, was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $31,640, to pay a fine in the amount of $3,000, and to serve three years of supervised release after serving her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Two Chicago men today became the fifth and sixth members of the violent “Hobos" street gang to be sentenced to life in prison on federal racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brian P. Miller, 38, of Woodsfield, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for receiving child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Lawmakers note that requests to EPA for information on political appointees have gone “almost entirely unanswered"
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Defendant Videotaped His Rape of Autistic Child while Child’s Mother was Hospitalized.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Today, the Ranking Members of the congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma raising concerns over the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Ingrid McBride Rich (New Port Richey, 52) guilty of presenting a false claim to an agency of the United States and obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Aug. 18, 2017, Derek Duane Mullennaxheather Jean Reekr, 46, of Prairie City, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 60 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and 120 months in prison for discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Mullennax will serve a total sentence of 180 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney sentenced Edward Lucas, 37, of South Haven, Michigan, to 151 months in federal prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Judge Maloney also ordered Lucas to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison and pay a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of JOHN BURWOOD ROBINSON, 50, for stealing more than $1.1 million from his employer. ROBINSON was charged by felony information July 26, 2017, with one count of mail fraud and one count of filing a false tax return. He pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minn. A sentencing date has not yet been determined.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded the Horsefly Irrigation District a WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant to assist with converting approximately 1.68 miles of open canal to subterranean piping. Reclamation has released a Draft Environmental Assessment to disclose potential environmental effects and solicit public comment on the proposed project, which must be completed before construction can begin.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 17, 2017, LM Deputy Director Thomas Pauling spoke at the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) Peer Exchange in Hanford, Washington. Mr. Pauling discussed the benefits of LM visitor spaces that provide institutional controls and support public education and outreach. Tracy Atkins, principal representative...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Trump today signed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, into law. The House passed the bill last month and the Senate passed the bill earlier this month.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Today, the Ranking Members of the congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma raising concerns over the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FORREST HEMPSTEAD, 32, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested a central Texas man Thursday for allegedly sexually exploiting children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: A federal jury today convicted the former chief executive officer of ArthroCare Corporation, a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, for his role in orchestrating a fraud scheme that resulted in shareholder losses of over $750 million.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2017
News Release: FBI to Host Exclusive Diversity Agent Recruitment Event on August 30th in San Antonio.
