News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Marcus Noel, 40, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard to 235 months’ imprisonment after having previously pled guilty to the international hostage taking of a United States citizen in Haiti. Co-defendant Moises Louinis, 24, also of Port-au-Prince, was previously sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment for his participation in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have obtained a new identity and arrested by FBI agents in Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Daniel Tyler Morgan, 30, of Jupiter, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robin Rosenberg to 60 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release for attempting to receive sexually explicit images of a child. Previously, on Oct. 12, 2016, Morgan pled guilty to one count of attempting to receive sexually explicit images of a child.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington - The United States Park Police are investigating two armed robberies that may be connected reported near the Old Aqueduct Bridge. There were no reported injuries as a result of either incident.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO, ID: Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pocatello Field Office and U.S. Forest Service Caribou-Targhee National Forest issued their separate records of decision (RODs) for the Rasmussen Valley Mine Project to approve an open pit phosphate mine in Caribou County, Idaho. The selected alternative will preserve 1,700 jobs supported by the project and generate approximately $85 million per year for the local economy in Caribou County.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement welcoming Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Brian Mast (R-FL), Francis Rooney (R-FL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Tom Garrett (R-VA) to the Foreign Affairs Committee for the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Mura, 67, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of failing to file federal income tax returns, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson to one year in prison. The defendant was also ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service $300,636.82.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Jan. 13, 2017, John Allen Morris, Jr., 51, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, U.S. District Judge, to serve 36 months in federal prison. Morris was also ordered to pay over $1.2 million in restitution to identified victims of his offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former owner of a local construction company and a Kansas City, Mo., veteran were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a “rent-a-vet" scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $13.8 million in federal contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Marcus Noel, 40, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard to 235 months’ imprisonment after having previously pled guilty to the international hostage taking of a United States citizen in Haiti. Co-defendant Moises Louinis, 24, also of Port-au-Prince, was previously sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment for his participation in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man faces life in prison after a jury convicted him of distributing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of a 37 year-old Fayette County, Kentucky, resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Louisiana residents have been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, a forfeiture of $433,833.00 and $2,000 fine on their convictions of fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: “Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to S. Con. Res. 3, the 2017 Republican Budget Resolution. Although this does not explicitly call for ACA repeal, it provides a process to repeal it. This legislative charade is both fiscally and socially irresponsible.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Igor Polshyn (42, Yalta, Ukraine) and Oleskii Tsurkan (52, Moscow, Russia) each to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess and possessing with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. A federal jury found them guilty on Sept. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Raymond Antoine Wyche, 25, of Chesapeake, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Javeon Malik Davis, 20, from Meridian, Mississippi, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III on Jan. 10, 2017 to possessing a firearm while under felony indictment, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Today, ahead of a classified briefing by the Intelligence Community on attempts by the Russian government to influence the last election, all House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter urging FBI Director James Comey to publicly acknowledge the existence of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Abigail Lee Kemp, 25, of Smyrna, GA, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for conspiracy, interfering with commerce by robbery, and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Larry Bernard Gilmore, 43, of Atlanta, GA, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. They were ordered...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park (ADIP) programs with the public throughout 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced two key leadership positions. BLM veteran Kristin Bail will serve as the agency’s Acting Director upon completion of Director Neil Kornze's tenure, and Jody L. Hudson has been selected as the Assistant Director for Human Capital Management. Director Kornze is stepping down on January 20 with the transition to the new administration, and Hudson succeeds Carole Carter-Pfisterer who retired from the BLM last month.
