News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GIORGIO COSENZA, age 29, of Gretna, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with distribution of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 70-year-old Kansas native who was residing in Panama was indicted today and charged with multiple crimes involving sexual conduct with minors in a foreign country, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Dallas physician has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to sell illegal prescriptions in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jasmine Young, age 28, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Jan. 31, 2017, to a narcotics conspiracy, which was committed while she was on pretrial release for federal bank fraud and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MONICA SYLVEST, age 52, of Marrero, was charged today in a Bill of Information for health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Shipped Methamphetamine To Long Island.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment charging eight individuals in connection with an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at a drug trafficking network based in Ascension Parish and covering Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Timothy Justin George, 27, of Gloucester County, pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: New Orleans, La. - Come to the city where jazz was born and visit the National Park Service site that traces its story from West African drums to modern influences. New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is small in size, but it tells a story as big as America.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three residents of Pittsburgh have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans began their all-out assault on regulatory health, safety, and financial protections today by voting to repeal the Stream Protection Rule, which would help protect waterways and communities from the negative effects of unchecked coal mining. Following the just-concluded...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Stole $43,100 and threatened to kill bank employees, customers and an alleged child held hostage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Louis Matthews, 35, was sentenced today to life in prison for drug and firearm crimes that resulted in the death of a man during a drug deal at a North Las Vegas apartment in November 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder of the ATF. United States District Judge James C. Mahan also sentenced Matthews to 10 additional years in prison and five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial has announced business opportunities for providing food and beverage services at regularly-scheduled and special events that take place at the memorial for the 2017 season. The events scheduled to date for this year are.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Joseph White, 48, of Newtown Pennsylvania was sentenced today to a 2-year term of imprisonment and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution by United States District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh. The sentence arose from Joseph White’s guilty plea to a Criminal Information which charged him with willfully attempting to evade the payment of taxes announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 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 US DOT Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held the Committee’s first full hearing of the 115th Congress to explore the importance of infrastructure to America’s job creators, and what sort of infrastructure investments must be made...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: In celebration of Black History Month, the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC) has announced that a temporary exhibit will be on display during the month of February. The exhibit highlights the stories of African Americans that sought new opportunities by settling in what is now Wyoming.
