News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Navy Officer Sentenced to 30 Months in Expanding Bribery and Fraud Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. B A federal jury Thursday convicted a former teller at a bank in Burlington on charges of embezzling approximately $700,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Better Buildings Challenge recognized the Corcoran Management Company today for its renewable and energy-efficient upgrades implemented at Canterbury Towers, one of the company's multi-family housing facilities located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and spur renewable energy development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management today announced the release of the final Solar Regional Mitigation Strategy for three Solar Energy Zones in Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against the Nigerian owner of a day care center in Kansas City, Mo., who was indicted last summer for engaging in a fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Patricia G. Sullivan, age 66, and Sharon D. Johnson, age 50, both of Columbia, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Greenville, to a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: According to the department’s complaint, the board discriminated on the basis of sex against Assistant Principal Anne Williams Dorsey of the Palm Beach County School District by unlawfully demoting her. The department alleges that after Dorsey became pregnant, her supervisor reassigned her to a position...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Senate passed the FY2017 budget resolution, including legislative tools aimed at providing relief from the president’s failed health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that multiple individuals this week entered guilty pleas this week on federal gun charges. Guilty pleas and sentencing hearings are bifurcated in the federal system and United States District Court Judge Bruce H. Hendricks presided...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Correctional Officer Smuggled Narcotics and Cellular Phones into the Federal Detention Center in Brooklyn in Exchange for Bribe Payments.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: President-Elect Donald Trump made a startling announcement yesterday that he will defy warnings from Republican and Democratic ethics experts by refusing to do what every previous president has done for decades-to divest himself of his corporate ownership interests, liquidate his business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Michael Rink, 34, of Centralia, Illinois, pleaded guilty today, in United States District Court to a conspiracy to possess and sell stolen firearms, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Rink faces up to five years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Hereford, AZ - The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Installation of Tower (TCA-SON-062) in Coronado National Memorial by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. NPS Intermountain Regional Director Sue Masica signed the FONSI on Dec. 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: MIAMI - There are just four days left to see the DEA traveling museum exhibit Drugs: Costs & Consequences - at the Museum of Science and Discovery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Topeka man with bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Anthony Jeroid Cue (47, Daytona Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Cue’s prior criminal history, which includes convictions for several serious drug offenses, subjected him to enhanced penalties pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 27, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Cumberland, Md.- Steve Dean, longtime Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal ) volunteer and recipient of the 2016 regional Hartzog Enduring Service award, will be presenting a one-hour presentation on the culverts of the C&O Canal Saturday, January 28th at 10:00 a.m. at the C&O Canal in Cumberland, MD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Jan. 11, 2017, District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Alexandro Geraldino-Aracena, 39, of the Dominican Republic, to 202 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, followed by five years of supervised release, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A 19-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy on Fort Riley, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The defendant also was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for funeral expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Simon Peter Danielson (37, Vancouver, British Columbia) to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to transport 250 kilograms of cocaine by boat from the Caribbean to the east coast of Canada. Danielson pleaded guilty in May 2016.
