News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Case Involved Significant Amounts of Gun Parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael J. Jackson, age 57, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 15, 2017, by a federal grand jury on wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud, false bankruptcy oaths and claims, and aggravated identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: FEB 16 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Sydney Jackson, also known as “Fatz," 34, of New London, Conn. and Queens, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has rescheduled the competitive oil and gas lease sale originally planned for May 2017 to June 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a former Colonel at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, SHIRLEY WHITTINGTON, age 46, of St. Francisville, Louisiana, has been convicted of wire fraud. Yesterday, WHITTINGTON pled guilty before U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to engaging in wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Benussi, III, age 26, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to participating in a conspiracy to distribute alpha-pvp, commonly known as “bath salts.".
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park will resume weekend only in-Park shuttle service on Saturday February 18th for Presidents Day weekend visitation. Shuttle buses will be departing the Visitor Center at 7:00 a.m. heading up canyon to designated trail head stops with the last bus returning from the Temple...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: An Ellis Grove, Illinois, man was sentenced to 46 months in prison today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, announced U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant attempted to use stolen government money to buy expensive cars and pay student loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexander Rivera-Santiago, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the vote in the House of Representatives to roll back protections for Title X family planning programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and House Ways and Means Committee member Congressman Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) today introduced the Health Savings Act of 2017, legislation to simplify and expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), health care accounts that provide Americans opportunities to save for medical costs through tax-deductible contributions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Tanya M. Gossett has been named the new superintendent of Prince William Forest Park in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging an Olathe man who worked at a store catering to runners with stealing more than $250,000 in merchandise, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of 45 Senate and House members today introduced a bill requiring the president to publicly disclose any financial interests that would be at stake before acting on trade matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: An enrolled member of the Suquamish Indian Tribe was sentenced this week to five months in prison and three years of supervised release, including three months of home detention and 100 hours of community service for assault, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. HA-KWA CHIQUITI, 38, assaulted his...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Derek Bowman, age 33, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 15, 2017, to 141 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge William J. Caldwell for the armed robbery of PNC bank in York, Pennsylvania, on January 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: FEB 16 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ronald Weaver, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 52 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
