News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - On Monday, a former bank executive admitted in federal court that he executed a 17-year scheme to defraud Town Square Bank of more than a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony “Tony" D’Ambrosio, age 35, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Armando Delgado, age 21, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania were convicted on Dec. 18, 2017, after a two-week jury trial in...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Environmental Assessment on the Orchard Ranch Ditch Piping Project located in Delta County, Colorado. The project would replace approximately 2.61 miles of open irrigation ditch with buried pipeline. The purpose of the project is to prevent seepage and reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Kirk Patrick Keshler, 60, of Garland, Texas, appeared today in federal court in Dallas and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, to one count of transportation of child pornography. The announcement was made today by Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Marcus Israel Butler, 33, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to access device fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia man has admitted to distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Identification and Tracking Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) chartered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in June has submitted its report and recommendations to the agency on technologies available to identify and track drones in flight and other associated issues.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Watching teams work. Learning what issues they face. Guiding them to solutions or to different outcomes. That’s how Kelly Wooley helped lead one of the most challenging demolition projects across the EM complex.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Commerce; Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA), a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Rep. Ed Royce...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A registered child sex offender was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey to 180 months in prison for receipt of child pornography, which was also a violation of his supervised release conditions, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Joel Zweig, an attorney who resides in New York, was sentenced to 56 months in prison for obstruction of justice and perjury, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Donald B. Smith, Putnam County Sheriff, announced today that JENNIFER COVIELLO was arrested for the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. COVIELLO was presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Margaret Smith in White Plains federal court this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - William Charles Huff Jr., 32, a former active duty Navy sailor stationed in Pensacola, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after pleading guilty on October 6, 2017, to attempted enticement of a minor for sex. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Bastrop farmer was sentenced to 108 months in prison for creating shell farms so he could receive more than $5.4 million in subsidy payments to which he was not entitled.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A New York man was arrested Monday following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A Transportation Security Administration officer at Syracuse-Hancock International Airport (SYR) prevented a Cortland County, New York, woman from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane Dec. 17.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Washington State Secretary of State Kim Wyman recently recognized EM Richland Operations Office contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) with a 2017 Corporations for Communities Honorable Mention award.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Alexandria pastor and his wife last night for a $2 million fraud scheme that victimized members of their congregation and prospective investors in a Nigerian oil scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - This week firefighters from the Northwest Colorado Interagency Fire Management Unit will begin burning slash piles on several locations within the Bureau of Land Management Kremmling Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Took Money Meant for People With HIV and AIDS.
