News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Coushatta man pleaded guilty last week to illegally possessing methamphetamine and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - a Dresden, Tennessee, business owner and contract supplier pled guilty today in United States District Court before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: On supervised release at the time, Crenshaw possessed and discharged a firearm at residence in Oconee County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ruben L. Aguilar, 29, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was convicted of cocaine distribution today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H. - A New Hampshire man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for remotely hacking into the online accounts of dozens of teenaged female victims and sending them threatening online communications, in some instances containing sexually explicit photos, in order to force the victims to send him sexually explicit photos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MITCHELL ANDERSON, 52, of Avon, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a scheme involving the redevelopment of Dillon Stadium in Hartford and a plan to bring a professional soccer team to the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Abraham C. Lazore, age 37, of Hogansburg, New York, was sentenced today to serve 16 months in prison for his obstruction of a vessel boarding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- United States Attorney Beth Drake, announced today that Juran Maghi Witherspoon, age 18, of Charlotte, North Carolina, entered a guilty on a charge stemming from his involvement in the pre-dawn break-in and theft of firearms from The Gun Shop in Simpsonville in October of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, with 300 hours of community service and computer monitoring, on his conviction of attempting and conspiring to cause damage to others’ computers, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - An Arizona man was sentenced today to serve 37 months in prison for trafficking in pet products with counterfeit labels into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James E. Kelson, 53, of Washington, DC was sentenced in federal court today to 30 months incarceration for failing to register as a sex offender, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced further reforms to the agency’s processes.
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: National Parks Commemorate African American History Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Darlene Henderson, age 60, of Leesville, South Carolina, pled guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in South Carolina, for Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. United...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced further reforms to the agency’s processes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Arizona Man Sentenced to Prison for Trafficking in Pet Products with Counterfeit Labels.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced further reforms to the agency’s processes.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo, requesting a formal briefing of CFTC’s efforts to address the systemic weaknesses of internal data security policies and procedures, as well as efforts to eliminate whistleblower reprisal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Three men were indicted on firearms charges in unrelated cases, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
