News from January 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced $500,000 in grants to help fund projects across the country to increase the number of listings associated with communities that are underrepresented in the National Register of Historic Places. The grants will assist nine states, two...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ronald Troy Bettencourt, 55, of Artesia, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms and drug trafficking laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: DC-VA-MD-WV. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN. Cleveland-Elyria...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A former employee in the Procurement Section of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department has been charged with accepting bribery payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A former newspaper publisher, mortgage broker, title agent and other individuals are charged federally for their participation in a $10 million mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: To date, 14 of the 15 Charged in the Conspiracy have been Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The owner of Sun Penang, Inc., a Pittsburgh restaurant, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges of falsifying, concealing, or covering up by trick, scheme, or device a material fact, and on behalf of the business ofwillfully violating the Fair Labor Standard Act, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ernesto Marquez Muniz, 31, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Floyd Wood, age 48, of DeRuyter, New York, pled guilty today to attempting to entice a 12-year-old girl into a sexual encounter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mark W. Wolfe, 51, of Sunbury, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison, 20 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Detroit man and Boone County woman each face up to 20 years in federal prison for drug crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A former newspaper publisher, mortgage broker, title agent and other individuals are charged federally for their participation in a $10 million mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The owner of Sun Penang, Inc., a Pittsburgh restaurant, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges of falsifying, concealing, or covering up by trick, scheme, or device a material fact, and on behalf of the business ofwillfully violating the Fair Labor Standard Act, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement on the Committee’s accomplishments from the 114th Congress.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today proposed revisions to the regulations that address smoking in national parks. The proposed revisions would change the regulation that defines smoking to include the use of electronic cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Louis Lappen, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Zaki M. Bey, 38, of Philadelphia pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit loan fraud and bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography Involving Multiple Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A former Selmer Police Department lieutenant has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for accessing child pornography on a hidden website. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Eugene Moulton, 67, and Antoinette Perreault, 48, both of Harmony, Maine, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Moulton was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release. Perreault was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Both pleaded guilty on July 20, 2016.
