News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal complaint was unsealed today, charging Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Holidays are always busy at Zion National Park. However, this upcoming holiday week may be especially challenging due to the road construction on State Route 9 in Springdale, just outside Zion’s main entrance. One-way traffic, portable traffic lights, and flaggers are being used to help...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Clarence Adams, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum 20 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $20,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 43 indictments charging 53 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The operator of two now-defunct medical supply companies in Hawthorne and Ventura, as well as two former employees, have been arrested on federal healthcare fraud charges for allegedly billing Medicare well over $24 million for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs (PWC) and the repair of medical equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx County District Attorney, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), James J. Hunt, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Floyd Benko, age 62, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane on false statement charges in connection with his performance of flawed genetic diagnostic tests for 124 cancer patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that JUAN SILVA, 37, of Stratford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to preparing false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DAVID SILVA PESTANO, 33, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to heroin trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released a joint statement with Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Regulatory ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded Senate passage of the Connected Government Act yesterday, a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Ranking Member Pallone and Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL). The House passed the bill on Nov. 15, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A jury convicted a former felon Thursday of unlawful possession of one Heckler & Koch machine pistol and one Sig Sauer automatic rifle after multiple prior felony convictions in California, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steve W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A 24-year-old MS-13 gang member wanted in El Salvador for his involvement in eight aggravated murders was removed Friday and turned over to Salvadoran authorities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking interested parties to redevelop historic structures and land at Fort Tilden East and Riis Landing in the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. This Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) invites plans that include opportunities for multiple day experiences and overnight accommodations in the forms of both lodging and camping as well as improved transportation and access.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jerry Defazio, age 39, of Archbald, Pennsylvania, a former contract employee with the Lackawanna County Prison, pleaded guilty on Dec. 21, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to providing and attempting to provide prohibited objects, including illegal drugs, to inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson, Nevada man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and two years supervised release for selling military-issued ammunition, smoke grenades, and other equipment stolen from the U.S. Air Force, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: California Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to A Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management is initiating environmental analyses of fuel breaks, fuels reduction and habitat restoration projects on sagebrush steppe rangelands in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah and California to ensure healthy, productive working landscapes and wildlife habitats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca S. Kanter (619-546-7304).
