News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Breaux Bridge woman was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in prison for stealing more than $64,000 from a New Iberia company.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Westmont College Assistant Professor of Biology Amanda Sparkman will discuss new research on the evolution of dwarfism in Channel Islands reptiles, during the March From Shore to Sea lecture.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - William Jaquett Barker, 31, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Barker was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene in April of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Cornelius Stewart, 22, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to two years in federal prison for passing counterfeit U.S. currency at numerous merchants in southern Wisconsin. Stewart pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Terrell Allen, 33, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for distributing heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging LESHANDA LONG, 36, of New Haven, with five counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Administrator of Miami-Area Home Health Agency Sentenced to 126 Months in Prison for Involvement in $2.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jared Brown, 20, of Niagara County, NY, has been sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo for violating the terms and conditions of his supervised release. The violation and sentence arose after Brown, in a 911 call to the Lockport City Police Department on Dec. 26, 2016, threatened to kill then President-elect Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Gennaro Mattiaccio, 55, of Stafford, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of theft of government property, making false statements in relation to obtaining Social Security disability benefits, and concealing events affecting his right to Social Security disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A McAllen federal jury has convicted the owner of an area durable medical equipment (DME) company owner on all counts for her scheme to defraud Texas Medicaid through fraudulent billings, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for six hours following a seven-day trial before convicting Maria Garza, 41, of McAllen, on all 18 counts as charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Two Miami-Dade County residents and one foreign national were arrested and charged with exporting prohibited articles to Syria, in violation of the Syria trade embargo, commerce regulations and a U.S. Department of Treasury designation based on an Indictment charging eleven individuals and one foreign company.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation will hold its second hearing of the new Congress next week as part of its preparations for developing a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reform and reauthorization bill later this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging Reyes Alvarez, 32, and Pedro Calixto, 27, both of Dallas, Texas with one count each of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Stephen Arellano, 59 of Philadelphia, PA was charged yesterday by Indictment with one count of bank robbery, announced Acting United States Louis D. Lappen. The indictment charges that the defendant robbed the Republic Bank, at 1601 Market Street in Philadelphia, on Nov. 16, 2016. Arellano stole approximately $860 in U.S. currency from the victim teller.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Huntsville woman for dealing firearms illegally, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced an increase in the fiscal year 2017 specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The increase, of 40,000 metric tons raw value (MTRV), is needed to accommodate the growing domestic demand for organic sugar and other specialty sugars. The sugar will be permitted entry into the United States beginning March 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Michael Michalak (54) to 36 years and 8 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the transportation of child pornography and distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered Michalak to forfeit two cellphones and a computer that had been used in furtherance of the commission of the offenses. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement upon news of the passing of Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, former and longest serving Delegate from American Samoa in the U.S. House of Representatives. Faleomavaega, who formerly served as the territory's lieutenant governor and a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, passed away on Feb. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 23, 2017, Brandon Adam Leingang, 33, Solen, ND., was sentenced before Chief US District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve two (2) years of supervised release. Judge Hovland also ordered that Leingang pay restitution to be determined in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christian Herrera, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to aiding and abetting the armed robbery of an Albuquerque-area bank.
