News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Thomas Robert Finnegan, age 38, of Easton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to one count of robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence stemming from a 2014 home invasion robbery of a Baltimore city couple.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the swearing-in of Kevin McIntyre to begin a five-year term on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), starting today as the Commission’s chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Rany Smith (48, Tampa), a/k/a “Abdelmajid Wahbi," has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 22 years in federal prison. A sentencing date...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation with Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to authorize the recently-released United States Postal Service Alzheimer’s research stamp for an additional six years, providing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - On December 6, 2017, a husband and wife were indicted on charges that they submitted false and fraudulent claims for home health services and defrauded Medicare of more than $3.4 million, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Sheila Kay Fundenberger, 44, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on December 6, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Fundenberger was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. She received 60 months of imprisonment, to be followed by four...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Today, Mike Hurst, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, along with the Jackson Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and many other federal, state and local law enforcement and community leaders, announced the rollout of a new collaborative initiative to combat violent crime in the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Sheila Kay Fundenberger, 44, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on December 6, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Fundenberger was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. She received 60 months of imprisonment, to be followed by four...
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 9:30 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Counterterrorism Efforts in Africa." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House of Representatives today passed two measures - H.R. 2658 and H. Res. 259 - supporting the Venezuelan people’s democratic and human rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, announced that ROY RIVAS-PALMAS, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal re-entry of removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to provide input on a request for a 40-foot wide right-of-way along Juniper Flats Road, totaling 2.71 acres. The ROW includes 2,950 feet of existing roadway across BLM-managed lands that connect to the existing Juniper Flats Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Twenty-six people were indicted in federal court for their roles in two separate conspiracies to bring large amounts of drugs - including fentanyl, heroin and cocaine - to Northeast Ohio, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YOHANDER HERNANDEZ-CEDENO, 21, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl-laced heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging a Cuyahoga Falls man with making interstate death threats, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 33 months incarceration and 3 years supervised release on his conviction of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former family and marriage counselor was convicted by a jury Wednesday for soliciting a minor for sex, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Mexican citizen, who had previously been deported from the United States on two occasions, pleaded guilty earlier this week to illegally reentering the United States, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Partners with San Francisco State University’s Pacific Leadership Institute (PLI) to Pilot Overnight Programming. The two-year pilot expands outdoor education and leadership training for urban youth.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: A Port St. Lucie resident was sentenced to life in prison for producing and distributing child pornography, coercing minors to produce child pornography, and possessing child pornography.
