News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Keystone, South Dakota - Celebrate President’s Day at Mount Rushmore National Memorial and enjoy the sounds of Offutt Brass. The brass ensemble of the United States Air Force Heartland of America Band will be performing in the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center Theater from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm on February 20.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: On Tuesday, February 7 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled “Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill., -- A Chicago man, Gbadebo Adebiyi, 41, of Chicago, pled guilty today to his role in a fraud scheme that used others’ personal information to file false tax returns for refunds. Adebiyi appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade. A co-defendant, Idris Akande, 35, also of Chicago, remains a fugitive. Sentencing for Adebiyi is scheduled on May 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Kansas store owner and a customer were sentenced Monday for violating the National Firearm Act, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Richard C. Webber, 54, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to serve 24 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Admitted Attacking Two Other Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: More than 120 grams of fentanyl was found in the defendant’s home.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Fraud Ring, With Three Clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, Paid Kickbacks to Individuals to Undergo Medically Unnecessary Tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Norman Charles Hilbert, 49, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was sentenced in federal court today to twelve months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: FEB. 6, 2017 - The Census Bureau today released updated editions of Census Business Builder that provide major updates and features, mobile-optimization and performance improvements to this popular suite of tools. Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition and Census Business Builder: Regional Analyst Edition include the following new features.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Tyrell Lamont Thompson, a/k/a Freak, age 24, of Forestville, Maryland, to 110 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The sentencing hearing was held on Feb. 3, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park is planning to implement a prescribed fire between February 13 and March 13, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa area prescribed fire is being conducted to dispose of material created during fuel reduction projects from last summer. Due to significant snow fall in January, the previous burn plan was cancelled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A convicted con man who defrauded a North Carolina man out of more than $8.7 million and was sentenced to nine years in federal prison has been sentenced to another six months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release by traveling to Africa without permission in relation to another possible fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lisa Belawske, age 53, of Canton, Pennsylvania, was charged today in a criminal information with misappropriation of postal funds by a postal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Hubert Young, age 46, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to producing and attempting to produce child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to incrementally increase releases below Nimbus Dam from 15,000 cubic feet per second to 30,000 cfs by 4 p.m. Feb. 6, to manage Sierra runoff. If inflows continue to increase or start to decrease, operational adjustments will be made as necessary and may occur on short notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Lee Petty, 43, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 17 1/2 years in prison for production of child pornography. Petty was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release to be completed upon his release from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - The Bureau of Land Management Dakotas Resource Advisory Council will meet Feb. 16 at the BLM South Dakota Field Office located at 309 Bonanza Street in Belle Fourche.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb sent a letter to cities and towns across Massachusetts highlighting the obligations of cities and towns under a federal law that prohibits religious discrimination. The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) protects against substantial burdens on religious exercise, unequal treatment, and unreasonable limitation for religious assemblies and institutions such as churches, mosques, and synagogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces $10,000 Reward to Locate Missing Classmates Enrique Rios and Elijah Moore.
