News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Stephanie W. Cowart, 58, of Grand Island, NY, pleaded guilty to theft concerning programs receiving federal funds before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native America Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: John Bryan Murphy Arrested for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering in Ponzi-Style Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Mountain Grove, Mo., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling counterfeit Louis Vuitton material into the United States so that she could make and sell counterfeit merchandise on her website.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Tumacácori was selected to receive a 2017 field trip grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks. The grant will cover transportation costs for local public schools to visit and participate in one of Tumacácori’s curriculum-based education programs. This grant, part of the National Park Foundation’s “Open OutDoors for Kids" program, supports the federal government’s “Every Kid in a Park" program.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on four bills. Among those bills considered at the hearing, H.R. 1349, introduced by Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA), would restore the original intent of the Wilderness Act and improve land access to disabled veterans, families and the elderly by clarifying that bicycles, strollers and wheelchairs are permitted in wilderness areas.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: New American Community Survey Statistics Provide Local Data for Every Community Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a woman to five years in prison for bilking an elderly suburban man out of $4.1 million through a telephone sweepstakes scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 40-year-old Jose Juan Quinones Avila of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to 57 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and money laundering announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, United States Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who handled the case, stated that the defendant worked as a Mail Handler Associate at the U.S. Mail Processing and Distribution Center in Rochester. While so employed, Bullard was seen rifling through packages that he was supposed to be sorting. Special Agents...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Duke Jimenez, 34, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to production and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 50 years, and a fine of $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO - Following a three-day trial, a federal jury has convicted Jose Santillan, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS -The Mount Locust Site along the Natchez Trace Parkway will begin winter hours of operation from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Wednesday through Sunday. The site will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays starting Monday, Dec. 25, 2017. This closure includes the historic home, restrooms, visitor contact station, and grounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Merrill Robertson, Jr., of Chesterfield, was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for his role in a $10 million fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scott W. Atway, 44, of Powell, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Morgantown, West Virginia, man has admitted to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Antwon D. Green, 29, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of felony murder, first-degree murder while armed, and a related weapons charge in the killing of a man in 2014 at a Southeast Washington barber shop, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant executed the fraud by writing checks to a fictitious vendor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Linda C. Germann, 57, Onalaska, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to three years’ probation. On Sept. 21, 2017, Germann pleaded guilty to stealing money from a federally insured credit union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Albert Castro, Jr., of Quincy, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty in March, 2017, to patronizing a thirteen-year-old child engaged in commercial sex. United...
