News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BEAUFORT, SC - On Jan. 12, 2018, the public is invited to join the National Park Service (NPS) and park partners to celebrate the one year anniversary of the creation of Reconstruction Era National Monument in South Carolina’s lowcountry. Festivities will kick off at 10 a.m. with a special program...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, 13 Senators wrote a letter to U.S. Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke to request information about the agency’s role in the Trump Administration’s review of 2015 plans to protect the imperiled greater sage-grouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Matthew Miller, 52, of Windham, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to three years in prison and ten years of supervised release for accessing with intent to view material containing images...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that STEPHEN CONDON PETERS, 44, of Raleigh, North Carolina, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a sixteen-count Indictment. The Indictment includes one count of Investment Advisor Fraud; one count of Fraud in the Sale of Unregistered...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") announcement it will only provide partial relief to students who were defrauded...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Alfonzo Lee Churchwell, a/k/a Boo Boo (30, Bradenton), guilty of possessing with the intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is hosting the Seventh Annual Science & History Symposium on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 at the Florida Park Service’s Ribault Club on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Researchers, students and community members are welcome to attend and learn more about...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on charges relating to the distribution of fentanyl on Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joseph Jakubowski, 33, Janesville, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 14 years in federal prison. Jakubowski was convicted following a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Madison in September of stealing firearms and silencers from a firearms dealer and with being a felon in possession of those firearms and silencers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York (“FBI"), announced that FAYCAL TAHIRI was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for international parental kidnapping. TAHIRI pled guilty on July 17, 2017, before Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, who imposed yesterday’s sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Top Democrats announced a series of letters today raising serious concerns over reports of private companies offering products on the individual health insurance market that may not comply with federal law, and which appear to both deceive consumers and put them at great financial risk. The Democrats...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for immigration offenses, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Rosier, 23, and Cody Kross-Rosier, 23, both of Buffalo, NY, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Rosier was sentenced to 12 months in prison and Kross-Rosier was sentenced to time served and three years supervised release, to include six months of home detention.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Ft. Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Brown Laster, Jr. (37, Tampa), Jerry Browdy (44, Riverview, FL), and Wesley Petiphar (30, Davenport) each to life in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. The Court also ordered...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. Entrance fees at Devils Tower National Monument will increase beginning Jan. 2, 2018. The increase will align Devils Tower with the designated fee group for all national monuments, Fee Model Group #2. In May, 2017, the National Park Service received direction that all parks not...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Connie Moorman Willis (52, Morriston) to six years and three months in federal prison for mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, embezzlement by a bank employee, and access device (credit card) fraud. She pleaded guilty on July 14, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tonight, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) hailed Senate passage of the House-Senate conference committee report for H.R. 1. The comprehensive tax reform bill will give the typical family of four earning the median family income of $73,000 a tax cut of more than $2,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring operating in southeastern Massachusetts.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House approved the conference report on H.R. 1, the “Tax Cuts & Jobs Act." The bill includes language that opens up a small portion of the non-wilderness 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for responsible energy development. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Parsons woman pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling $5 million from a credit union where she worked, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
