News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A grand jury today indicted a Jacksonville, Ill., man for allegedly aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns. The indictment alleges that West Mpetshi (ma-pet-shē), 36, of the 500 block of Beecher Ave., added false deductions and credits to income tax returns he prepared in 2015 and 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD ROTANTE, 57, of Stamford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: A Young Mother Died in West Virginia after Ingesting Pills Distributed by the Defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Group Allegedly Used False Invoices and Kickbacks to Transform 5¢ Recycling Deposit Into Lucrative Fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news the Senate has confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen to be Homeland Security Secretary...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: With roughly one million yearly visitors, there are necessary and appropriate business opportunities within the boundaries of Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area and Obed Wild & Scenic River, and the National Park Service must determine what types of commercial activities are necessary and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced RICKY JAY BALL, 40, of Greenville to 96 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine M. Ro (619)546-7937.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher D. Barker, of Columbus, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on a failure to update a sex offender registration charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) has secured a reliable supply of nuclear-grade parts for its facilities through novel approaches with vendors and streamlined processes being modeled at other DOE sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Jeremy Outland, of Springfield, Ill., with conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in the Springfield area from November 2016 to November 2017. In addition, Outland is charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two men who been living in Kansas were indicted today in separate cases on charges of lying in order to become naturalized citizens, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement after President Trump signed presidential proclamations reducing the size of two national monuments, Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante, both located in Utah. The administration also released Secretary Zinke’s final national monuments review and recommendations to the president.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: John I. Waltman, 59, of Trevose, Pennsylvania, Robert P. Hoopes, 70, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Bernard T. Rafferty, 62, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, were charged in a second superseding indictment[1] with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, three counts of money laundering, one...
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of a resolution that condemns the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calls for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine in Burma (H.Con.Res 90 )...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: With roughly one million yearly visitors, there are necessary and appropriate business opportunities within the boundaries of Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area and Obed Wild & Scenic River, and the National Park Service must determine what types of commercial activities are necessary and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced RICKY JAY BALL, 40, of Greenville to 96 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A pump-and-treat system is set to surpass treatment of 700 million gallons of water within the next few months in one of two cleanup projects removing contaminants from the nation’s second-largest aquifer beneath EM’s Idaho Site.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Mike Jennings led the team that the former 618-10 Burial Ground, a hazardous landfill on the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has charged Mark Ian Gaver, age 56, of Bonita Springs, Florida, with eight counts of bank fraud and two counts of money laundering arising from an alleged scheme to obtain $50 million in bank financing for his company using false and fraudulent financial statements...
