News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: * RALEIGH The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today, eight co-defendants in the kidnapping case of a Wake Forest man were sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, for their role in the conspiracy to seize, kidnap, and abduct Frank Janssen from Wake Forest, North Carolina and transport him to Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS PEREZ, also known as “Carlito," 43, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
Release: FORT DODGE, Iowa - The Transportation Security Administration today announced the deployment of the latest checkpoint screening technology to Fort Dodge Regional Airport (FOD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Scott Capparell, age 46, of Drums, Pennsylvania, the former administrator of Heritage Mills Personal Care, Inc. (“HMPC"), was charged in a criminal information on Feb. 23, 2017, with committing bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A onetime school teacher who traveled to the Philippines to engage in sex with two girls and produced videos of the abuse was ordered today to serve 190 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 36-year-old man has been arrested on charges of international parental kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Mark Filip will serve as Compliance and Ethics Monitor.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service, with the help of CyArk, recently completed a new website allowing the public to virtually explore Shoshone Power Plant and learn about the technology used to generate hydroelectricity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Winston David Holliday, Jr. (803) 929-3000.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today slammed President Trump’s intention to propose a 2018 budget that slashes services and investments critical to hardworking families, communities, and security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Stamford, Connecticut, man today admitted paying bribes in order to secure a contract between his metallurgical technology company and a medical device company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant Profited By Promoting To Investors Worthless Stock Of A Company That Purported To Be A Worldwide Distributor And Provider Of LED Lighting Products.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: On Feb. 24, 2017, Marie M. Jean-Francois, 31, of Boca Raton, was sentenced to 51 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for her involvement in a scheme to obtain unauthorized loans for students in a licensed practical nurse (“LPN") program by defrauding the Department of Education.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: The Three Hundred and Fifth meeting of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission will take place on Monday, March 13, 2017, at 1:00 P.M., in the meeting room at Headquarters, 99 Marconi Station Road, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts to discuss the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Danielle D. Clark, a/k/a Danielle D. Markiewicz, a/k/a Danielle D. Cantrall, 37, of Edwardsville, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to an Information charging two counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the Eden Village Care Center, a not-for-profit retirement community in Glen Carbon, Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - - Jacob Ebel, age 29, of Niverville, New York, was arraigned today on charges that he distributed heroin and fentanyl that caused two overdose deaths in Columbia County in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Jimenez, 38, Jessica Rosario, 36, and Ashley Walker, 32, all of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and preparing fraudulent tax returns. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators are pursuing a fungal killer that's attacking Hawaii's native 'ÅŒhi'a trees. Fortunately, their efforts are already turning up important new leads and tools to counter the fungus, known scientifically as Ceratocystis fimbriata.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced the Committee will mark up the nomination of Seema Verma to serve as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator in an executive session on Wednesday, March 1, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 10:30 a.m.
