News published on Federal Newswire in January 2017

News from January 2017


News Release: Charles Bayer Manufactured and Sold the Fraudulent Devices.


Independence Day 2017

News Release: QUINCY, MA - The Founding Fathers had the radical idea that a government should be for the people. Today, America’s 400 plus National Parks represent this exact idea. Join Adams National Historical Park at the “Continental Congress" as we debate, defend, compromise, and consider the meaning of independence.


Suffolk Man Sentenced to 59 Years for 10 Armed Robberies

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Arthur Santiful, 27, of Suffolk, was sentenced today to 59 years in prison for 10 armed robberies he committed in August and September 2015 in South Hampton Roads and the Peninsula.


News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today introduced companion bills to accelerate an equal value land exchange between the Alaska Mental Health Trust (Trust) and the U.S. Forest Service. The legislation, which nearly passed last Congress, protects ...


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JESUS ENRIQUE GONZALES TORRES, 24, a Cuban national who had resided in Florida before traveling to the New Orleans area to steal credit card information, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated...


News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Crystel Lee Riedling (44, Lake City) guilty of theft of government property and making a false statement. She faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 11, 2017. Riedling was indicted on Feb. 18, 2016.


BLM to Host Public Meetings for Central Yukon Land Use Plan

News Release: FAIRBANKS - To better prepare for developing the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan (RMP), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a series of public meetings from mid-January through mid-March 2017 to gather vital public input from the many users of public lands. This plan will guide management of 13.1 million acres of public lands in central and northern Alaska for the next 15 to 20 years.


Public Meeting for Eagle Mountain Boundary Study

News Release: or. Doug Herrema, Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs South Coast Field Office, 760-833-7100.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on January 6, 2017, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment alleging that CARRIE CAESAR, 46, of New Britain, embezzled funds from her employer, Webster Bank Corporation, where she served as bank manager of the Avon branch office.


News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that David L. Bradford, 33, of East St. Louis, Illinois, formerly of Madison, Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, for drug and gun trafficking offenses following a jury trial that concluded...


Indiana Man Sentenced To Prison For Engaging In A Child Exploitation Enterprise

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A member of a highly sophisticated, global child exploitation enterprise dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children was sentenced to prison today.


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Arthur Santiful, 27, of Suffolk, was sentenced today to 59 years in prison for 10 armed robberies he committed in August and September 2015 in South Hampton Roads and the Peninsula.


Federal And State Authorities Arrest 21 Individuals Based On San Antonio Federal Drug Trafficking Indictment

News Release: SAN ANTONIO - This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested 15 individuals without incident,


News Release: Clarkdale, AZ - Tuzigoot National Monument.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert G. Ross, 51, of Middleburg, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for stealing approximately $467,000 from his clients. Ross was also ordered to pay $467,000 in restitution and agreed to an asset forfeiture judgment.


News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Paul Goston, age 40 of Little Rock, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Bardan and Kenneth Elser, ...


National Park Service offers summer teacher fellowships at Acadia National Park and Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is recruiting six Acadia Teacher Fellows to spend the summer learning about Acadia National Park’s diverse natural and cultural resources, and ways to protect them. The NPS will select three teachers to work on Mount Desert Island, and two teachers to work at the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) in Winter Harbor. In addition, the NPS will select one teacher to work at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site in Calais.


Pittsburgh Tax Attorney and Owner of Iceoplex Sentenced to Prison for Employment Tax Fraud

News Release: WASHINGTON - A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 48 months in prison today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania after being convicted of failing to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes following a jury trial in September 2016, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.


Former Government Contractor Sentenced to Five Years for Bribing an Officer and Smuggling Aliens for Financial Gain

News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara A. Stingley (619)546-8403.


Ringleader of Bank Fraud Scheme that Used Information Stolen by Wells Fargo Employees Sentenced to over 7 Years in Federal Prison

News Release: LOS ANGELES - The organizer of a bank fraud scheme in which Wells Fargo Bank employees stole customer account data - information that was used to impersonate scores of customers and steal well over a half-million dollars from their accounts - was sentenced today to 89 months in federal prison.