News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, JOHN ROBERTS, 45, of Engelhard, pled guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina during 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - BNSF Railway has requested and received a special use permit from Glacier National Park to conduct emergency avalanche hazard mitigation activities in an area along the southern boundary of the park. Avalanche mitigation activities will take place in the John F. Stevens Canyon area...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - More than a hundred and twenty-five officers from federal, state, county, local and tribal law enforcement agencies from across the state are participating in the Department of Justice’s VALOR Training this week. The VALOR Training program, which is provided by the Justice Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Kept Donations Intended For Sufi Islamic Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Jermine T. Prosper was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling and trafficking approximately 50 firearms to Guyana during a two-year period. Prosper legally purchased the firearms in the Atlanta area with the intention of smuggling the guns to Guyana and later selling them there.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former Huntsville physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, to 15 years in prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who participated in a multistate drug ring was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Roy Bills, 51, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price has announced that the National Park Service and the Truro Historical Society have entered into a 20-year lease for the historic Highland House in Truro. Under the lease, the historical society will continue to manage the former 1907-era hotel as a museum dedicated to Truro history and also preserve and maintain the building.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: FEB. 7, 2017 - Today the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued full year 2016 U.S. The top five countries based on trade in goods in 2016 were China, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Germany.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Gary L. Marder, D.O., a physician residing in Palm Beach County and the owner and operator of the Allergy, Dermatology & Skin Cancer Centers in Port St. Lucie and Okeechobee, and the United States of America have stipulated to a consent final judgment of over $18 million to settle False Claims Act allegations...
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement at the full Committee hearing, “Countering the North Korean Threat: New Steps in U.S. Policy:".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Margaret Mary Epps, a/k/a Margaret Monroy (39, Los Angeles, California), to seven months in federal prison for immigration fraud. She pleaded guilty on November 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: On February 7, 2017, Lucas L. Holland, 31, of Desoto, was sentenced to federal prison for a methamphetamine violation, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - At the request of the National Park Service and interest from other parties, the Bureau of Land Management will extend the public comment period from the original end date of Feb. 10, to March 9, 2017, for the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed oil and gas lease parcels in the St. George Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - During a hearing yesterday, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Michael Gerard Smith, 55, of Albuquerque, with violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws. Today, the Magistrate Judge entered an order...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - Snake River flows below Minidoka and Milner dams will increase today to accommodate high inflows from the surrounding areas because of increased low-elevation snowmelt from recent warm temperatures and rainfall. The flow below Minidoka Dam is at 525 cubic feet per second (cfs); it will...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, - On February 6, 2017, Al Shonnie Ben, 40, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 30 years’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. Ben had previously pleaded guilty kidnapping.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Good Morning. Mr. Chairmen, thank you for holding today’s hearing. I would also like to thank all the witnesses for being here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Devin Patrick Lessig, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 18 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in April 2016 to an indictment charging one federal felony drug offense, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
