News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: 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.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park will host a free Ski Celebration at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center on Monday, February 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entrance to the park and other national park sites is free in observance of Presidents’ Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Bickmore, 30, of Guilford, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin. He pleaded guilty to this charge on July 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - A federal grand jury sitting in Ft. Myers, Florida returned an indictment on Feb. 15, which was unsealed today, charging a Lee County, Florida resident with mail fraud, money laundering, and corruptly endeavoring to impede the administration of the internal revenue laws, announced U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III for the Middle District of Florida and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Virginia woman, who conspired with others to commit wire fraud, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, to a federal Information, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Waqar Ghumman, 27, and Mohsin Zamir, 31, with bank robbery, entering a bank with intent to commit a larceny, and bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Daniel Albert Crowninshield, 54, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison for unlawfully manufacturing and dealing in firearms and possession of an unregistered machinegun, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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 State Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement at the full Committee hearing, Iran on Notice...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Espen Brungodt, 29, of Norway, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby to 15 months in prison for making threatening interstate communications. He pled guilty on Sept. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Director to Honor Milwaukee’s Safe & Sound Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An airline passenger today admitted assaulting a female passenger who did not know him aboard a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport on July 30, 2016, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Federal authorities this morning arrested a Perris man who was indicted last week by a grand jury on child pornography offenses stemming from a large collection of illicit images found on his home computer and evidence that he was engaged in online trading of child pornography with others, including an undercover law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jacorian Rashawn Brown (24) and Jessica Duenas Nicholas (45), both of Brandon, today pleaded guilty to conspiracy and armed robbery. Brown also pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during an armed robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison, and Nicholas faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - The next fee-free day of 2017 is just around the corner! In honor of.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke on the House Floor today against H.J. Res. 43, which would allow states to prevent health care providers from receiving any Title X funds if the provider separately performs abortions or is affiliated with health centers...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), along with 42 cosponsors, today introduced H.R. 1121, the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County doctor, his oncology practice, and his wife, who managed the practice, have agreed to pay the United States $1.7 million to resolve allegations that they illegally imported and used unapproved chemotherapy drugs from foreign distributors and illegally billed Medicare, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Bank Robber on Supervised Release after Serving Time for 1993 Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Oregon Woman Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
