News from January 2017
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Senator Calls for Additional U.S. Sanctions, Radical Enforcement of Nuclear Agreement
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Jeffrey Ihm (49, Naples) to 11 years and 8 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court ordered him to pay restitution totaling more than $2.2 million to financial institutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmy Cheatham, also known as “Shoe," 25, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - Over the next few months, the Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, will be burning piles of tree limbs in the Pine Nut Mountains left over from thinning of trees. The burning will happen on days when enough precipitation has fallen to prevent fire from spreading beyond the pile areas and road conditions allow safe access. On burn days, smoke may be visible to surrounding residents and travelers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a Birmingham man in connection with an $11 million embezzlement scheme from a Shelby County scrap metal brokerage company where he was the chief financial officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Melissa Moniz, 44, of Marianna, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following executive action from the president limiting refugees and immigrants from entering the United States, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked Congressman Tom Price, the president’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), about his views and experience in helping refugees resettle in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALBERTO SILVA-GARCIA, 42, a citizen of Mexico recently residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Robert Lee Jim, age 32 and Jackie Devon Stokes, Jr., age 33, both Choctaw Indians and residents of Neshoba County, were sentenced on Jan. 23, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. The defendants previously pled guilty to the charges.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: House and Senate leaders with jurisdiction over workforce protections and federal contracting today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval that would block implementation of the Obama administration’s flawed, redundant, and burdensome “blacklisting" rule through the Congressional Review Act. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: (NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Steven Williams was found guilty Friday of conspiring to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine. Williams was convicted after a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Clifton, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for health care fraud, obstructing a federal audit, and other charges associated with his illegal operation of an ambulance company despite having been banned from participating in federal health care programs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Wichita man who held a jewelry store owner at gunpoint pleaded guilty Monday in that incident and a separate bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) is looking for subject matter experts to serve as technical reviewers. Selected individuals may be asked to evaluate applications and proposals received in response to government-issued Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) and Laboratory Calls (“Lab Calls"), or to serve on Peer Review panels to assess ongoing OE programmatic activities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - One of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) 10 most wanted human trafficking fugitives was extradited Friday to face criminal charges for sex trafficking. This is subsequent to an initial arrest Sept. 2016 in Mexico, following a joint investigation between ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Mexico City, HSI New York and the Mexican Federal Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. B A Wabaunsee County woman who was the executor of her mother’s estate pleaded guilty Monday to fraud in the sale a South Padre Island condo, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Clarence Henry Andrews, age 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty late on Jan. 27, 2017, to production of child pornography. Andrews is a registered sex offender as a result of a 2010 conviction in Prince George’s County Circuit Court for a fourth degree sex offense and second degree assault, in connection with his abuse of a nine-year-old boy in the bathroom of a Laurel, Maryland, church.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: FBI Continues Efforts to Identify Alpharetta/Tifton, Georgia Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Brian Lee Adams (57, Jacksonville) to five years and four months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. As part of the sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $33,292.36, the proceeds of the offenses. Adams pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2016.
