News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Pipestone National Monument News Release. 12/14/2017 and 12/28/17. Contact: Cody Goraczkowski Phone: 507-825-5464 Ext. 214 Email: e-mail us. First Day Hike at Pipestone National Monument on Jan. 1, 2018. Start the year off with a healthy and educational walk in the outdoors. On Jan. 1, 2018, a Pipestone...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kristi Michelle Juarez, age 32, of Sanger, Texas pled guilty to Theft By Officers Or Employees Of An Indian Gaming Establishment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1168(b), punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for selling fentanyl, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury has charged DEVON BOWMAN, 22, of Oklahoma City, with a series of armed robberies of Oklahoma City businesses in April and May of 2017, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Harrison, AR: PG&S Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded a $5,000 National Park Service Rural Fire Assistance Program grant from Buffalo National River. “This grant will be used to purchase much needed firefighting equipment and personal protective gear," stated Buffalo National River Deputy Superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - An information technology specialist has been arrested on cyber hacking charges for allegedly damaging the servers of a north suburban company where he formerly worked as a contractor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned an indictment charging Forest M. Kirst, 60, of Fairbanks, Alaska, with two counts of obstruction before the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and piloting an aircraft without a valid airman’s certificate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury has charged DANIEL WEBSTER "WEB" KEOGH, 47, and DANIELLE KEOGH, 36, both of Edmond, Oklahoma, with fraud crimes against First Pryority Bank, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Commuter Air Technology, Inc., and Oklahoma State University’s Multispectral Laboratories, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., the Westchester County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Patrick J. Carroll...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, released the following statement upon the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s vote to overrule its 2015 decision in Browning-Ferris Industries, and roll back the convoluted joint employer scheme that threatens American job creation...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy held a Puerto Rico Power Resiliency Workshop on Dec. 13, 2017 to gather experts from the whole community of public and private energy stakeholders to support a long-term plan to enhance the resilience of Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure. The conversation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bobbie Jo Phillips, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for oxycodone and cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Adrianna C. Frye-Williamson, 21, of Springfield, Illinois, received a 51-month sentence and three years of supervised release from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, for bank robberies committed between January 12 and February 9, 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - The owner of a local gun archery and pawn shop, who failed to maintain proper records, will have to give up his federal firearms license after he pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jason McGoldrick, 36, of Windham, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to a year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for perjury. McGoldrick pleaded guilty on July 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - DaVita Rx LLC, a nationwide pharmacy that specializes in serving patients with severe kidney disease, agreed to pay a total of $63.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to improper billing practices and unlawful financial inducements to federal healthcare program beneficiaries, the Justice Department announced today. DaVita Rx is based in Coppell, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Three men have been ordered to prison following their convictions related to a “second chance" mortgage lending scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury convicted Luis Antonio Rodriguez, 37, of Mission, and Rogelio Ramos Jr., 37, of Pharr, of conspiracy to...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Like sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials to form intricate three-dimensional patterns. The beams can create tiny features in the lateral dimensions-length and width, but to create the next generation of nanometer-scale devices, the energetic ions must precisely...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: A Napoleon man was indicted for child pornography crimes, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
