News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach woman was sentenced today to 46 months for embezzling over $300,000 from her former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Jury Convicts Former Atlanta Police Sergeant for Using Excessive Force to Break Walmart Customer’s Leg.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND -United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Javon Kennedy, 43, of Merrillville, Indiana, was sentenced on December 7, 2017 by District Court Senior Judge James T. Moody for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Aaron Deshawn Campbell, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 96 months incarceration for selling cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two U.S. defendants are in custody on allegations of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, as well as visa fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: DENVER - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer eight parcels totaling approximately 2,545 acres in La Plata and San Miguel counties at its March 8, 2018 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The BLM will hold the lease sale online via www.energynet.com. Bidding will begin at 9 a.m. Mountain Time.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - A jury and judge ordered Albany-based asbestos abatement and demolition company Champagne Demolition, LLC and its owner, Joseph A. Champagne, to pay $173,793.84 to a former employee who was fired in June 2010 after reporting improper asbestos removal practices at a school worksite in Gloversville, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Jason Sparling submitted an application for a drought disaster payment to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFDP), for a loss of grazing during the summer of 2014. Based on Sparling’s statements, he received an LFDP payment of $94,696. The USDA later determined that none of Sparling’s cattle were on the drought stricken pasture during the qualifying period and Starling was not entitled to the disaster payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Seven Romanian nationals pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming scheme operating throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New York and South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park invites the public to visit their national park this fall and winter for new public programming. “Fall is a beautiful time of year to visit Horseshoe Bend. The leaves are changing, the weather is mild, and the solitude of the park provides space for reflection,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have sold large quantities of methamphetamine in Indiana and Kentucky.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Each holiday season for the past several years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received reports from pilots who said they were distracted or temporarily blinded by residential laser-light displays.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor (50, Daytona Beach) to 13 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The Court also ordered him to pay $62,834.55 in restitution and to serve 18 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Following a three-day trial before the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, a jury convicted Michael J.W. Potter, 36, of Kingsport, Tennessee, of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that, on Dec. 6, 2017, a federal jury in Juneau convicted Zerisenay Gebregiorgis, 35, a Washington resident, of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing on defending the country from international terrorist threats, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill raised concerns over the Administration’s proposed cuts to counterterrorism programs across the country, including programs utilized by St. Louis and Kansas City. Witnesses at the...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the nomination of Stephen Alexander Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Kyle Adam Kirby (37, Live Oak) guilty of producing, attempting to produce, possessing, and accessing child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 120 years, in...
