News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Florida Department of Health supervisor sentenced to prison for accepting a bribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that ISSAC YEBOAH, age 30, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for BANK FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1344(2) and 2; and for UNLAWFUL TRANSFER, POSSESSION OR USE OF A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1028(a)(7) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that six defendants pleaded guilty to illegal reentry charges before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci including.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: At noon today, Cape Hatteras National Seashore will open the Cape Point Bypass Road extension to the public. The project is a result of a recent Environmental Assessment (EA) and rule-making process that included public review.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Defendant’s mother, a postal employee, provided him with stolen tax refund checks from the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a 14-year prison sentence and a 12 ½-year prison sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley on two Luzerne County men who participated in a heroin trafficking conspiracy during 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Proctor, 56, of Washington, D.C., who has no fixed address, has been sentenced to three years in prison for a mid-morning bank robbery he committed last year in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephayne McClure-Potts, age 51, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to social security fraud and harboring an illegal alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Krishen Sauble Iyer, 36, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: The Abbey of Le Mars, Inc., and other individuals with financial interests in the Abbey’s operations, agreed to pay $100,000 to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing claims to be submitted to Medicaid when the care provided to nursing facility residents was so grossly substandard that the care was worthless and effectively without value.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jackson State University (JSU) has agreed to pay the United States $1.17 million to settle allegations that JSU mismanaged National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Allison Lerner, Inspector General at the National Science Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force Seeks Location of the Interstate Bandit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Shaka Abdul- Muhaimin, age 31, of Accokeek, Maryland, today to 92 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Information based on court filings and statements made at the change of plea hearing established that Freeman entered the TD Bank on South River Road in Bedford, New Hampshire on July 26, 2015. He approached a teller, demanded $10,000, and threatened to blow her brains out if she did not comply. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Mantua, New Jersey, man today admitted overseeing a more than 15-month conspiracy to sell crack cocaine in Camden, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Charles Hicks, Fenton, Missouri, was sentenced to 27 months in prison involving a false invoice scheme to defraud two employers, causing a loss of $386,000. In addition to the prison sentence, Hicks was ordered to pay restitution of $386,000.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Fee Free Days in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - For the first time in three years, Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery will release 1,000 rainbow trout into the Colorado River near Willow Beach Marina every Friday, starting Feb. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tyree Brent Mariano, 26, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation residing in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for escaping from a half-way house and violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Mariano will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Salvador Gonzales-Vasquez, also known as Placido Gonzalez-Hernandez, 33, a citizen of Mexico found in Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Williams M. Conley to 42 months...
