News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rosario Beltran-Leal (Beltran), 43, of Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture or cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in Tulare County, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the administration’s national security strategy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi sentenced Beei-Huan Chao, age 62, to 80 months in prison today for transporting child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(1). Chao, who was formerly employed as a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, pled guilty to the offense on May 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Danurell M. Blair, age 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was charged by way of complaint with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Lamont Moran was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to 84 months’ imprisonment to be followed by four years of supervised release, after his conviction for conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin. The defendant ran a heroin distribution operation near the Baisley Park Houses in South Jamaica, Queens from 2015 until his arrest in September 2016. Moran pled guilty to the charge in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury found Jeanine Jeanty guilty of one count of conspiracy to steal tax refunds, five counts of theft of tax refunds, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. She faces a maximum penalty of five years in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: A 14-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging three owners of independent diagnostic testing facilities in Brooklyn for their roles in an allegedly fraudulent scheme that involved submitting over $44 million in claims to Medicare and private insurers...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has completed its analysis of a Special Recreation Permit, submitted by North American Eagle, Inc., to conduct land speed record attempts on the alkali flat of Diamond Valley, Eureka, Nevada, using a vehicle equipped with a jet engine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Augusta, GA - Vicky Vinson Capetillo, from Grovetown, Georgia, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Chief Judge J. Randal Hall to two federal felonies related to her embezzlement of nearly $900,000 from the City of Grovetown.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Bosnian Serb residing in Charlotte, North Carolina pleaded guilty today to lying to obtain lawful permanent resident status by concealing his military status and criminal activity during the war in Bosnia. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with support from ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Winter Film Festival at Effigy Mounds Cancelled.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation will be releasing higher than normal flows in the Wind and Bighorn Rivers downstream of Boysen Dam and also in the Shoshone River below Buffalo Bill Dam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Callers Fraudulently Claimed Victims’ Relatives Needed Bail Money.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid Pacific Region has selected Kristin White as the deputy operations manager for its Central Valley Operations Office in Sacramento.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: A new report from the non-partisan Tax Foundation shows that the Senate and House conference report of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will lead to faster economic growth, more jobs and higher wages.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: “The GOES-16 satellite provided invaluable data on deadly hurricanes long before they touched the shore this season," said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “As it becomes fully operational, GOES-16 will continue to monitor extreme weather events, safeguarding American lives and property from its perch thousands of miles above the Earth."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA - Javel Roberts, 17, of Valdosta, Georgia, entered a guilty plea Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., for the armed robbery of the SunTrust Bank in Garden City, Georgia, on September 7, 2017, and for brandishing a firearm during the...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Dec. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has selected Kansas State University to direct the Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs. The research resulting from this partnership will help improve food safety across all of USDA’s child nutrition programs, which serve billions of meals to children each year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Christopher Blake Gilbert, age 33, of Haworth, Oklahoma pled guilty to Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Darrell Lee McLemore, age 55, of Porum, Oklahoma pled guilty to False Statement, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 1383a(a)(2), punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
