News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 44-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Victor Oyewumi Oloyede, age 42, of Laurel, Maryland today to 234 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracies to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and for aggravated identity theft arising from...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Julius Lorenzo George Jackson, 32, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch for his role in a Jamaica-based fraudulent lottery scheme. Jackson previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Blackburn, 26, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced to 19 month incarceration for illegally possessing a stolen firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site tank farm employees will now benefit from a new physiological measurement program that improves safety.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Sierra Front Field Office has approved the Virginia Mountains Vegetation Treatments Project. The project area is located in the Virginia Mountains area north of Reno and west of Pyramid Lake in Washoe County, Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Risk reduction work is safely underway inside and outside the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) on the Hanford Site. While demolition continues on two of the plant's four main buildings, crews with contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) are preparing the other two buildings for teardown.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “The Geography of Poverty" on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building. This hearing will examine how the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Avenues street gang who was on the run for well over a decade pleaded not guilty this morning to federal hate crimes charges stemming from the racially motivated murders of two African-American men in Highland Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK JENKINS, 23, pled guilty today before the Honorable John G. Koeltl to shooting and killing Rashaun Nicholson on or about Dec. 28, 2014, in furtherance of a narcotics distribution conspiracy. The charges to which JENKINS pled guilty are set forth in a seven-count superseding indictment (the “Indictment"), which was filed in December 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Beginning, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host a series of Plains Indian Village Cultural Weekends, “Alibates Fingerprints", the third weekend of each month through September 17. These events will trace the legacy of people at Alibates and examine their unique...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Avenues street gang who was on the run for well over a decade pleaded not guilty this morning to federal hate crimes charges stemming from the racially motivated murders of two African-American men in Highland Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Nicholas Damion Paisley (34, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine; possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana; and possessing a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Columbus, Georgia resident was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Waqar Ghumman, 27, and Mohsin Zamir, 31, with bank robbery, entering a bank with intent to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: The Fraud Ring Operated Three Therapy Clinics in Michigan from 2012 to 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Fauquier County has agreed to resolve an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance review of its polling locations to ensure that its polling locations comply with the ADA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Paul Rodriguez, age 41, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to serve 108 months’ imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: FEB 14 - BOSTON - Twenty-three men and women involved in two drug trafficking organizations operating in Taunton and Boston were arrested and charged today in connection with distributing heroin and fentanyl. In addition, the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with state and local partners, conducted 12 searches in Fall River, New Bedford, Bridgewater, Boston, Brighton and Providence.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at the Norfolk International Airport checkpoint on Sunday, Feb. 12.
