News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Vadim Thomas Named Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERICK DELGADO, 39, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that led to overdoses in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of SENG XIONG, 49, for operating an affinity scheme targeting Hmong elders. After a trial lasting more than two weeks, the jury verdict was returned in approximately two hours. A sentencing date has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Jan. 26, 2017, five defendants pleaded guilty before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez to drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Dellana Magner, 23, and Kinia Blyden, 23, both of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty to possession...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on a project to replace the existing crane on Anacapa Island within Channel Islands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 46-year-old woman has entered a guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal grand jury indicted Las Vegas resident Wen Bing Lei, aka Raymond Lei, aka Black Raymond, aka Skinny Raymond, for murder in aid of racketeering, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: J.D. Rowell (803) 929-3036.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. McGahn: We are writing to request that you take immediate action to remedy the Trump Administration’s apparent violations of multiple federal laws by imposing gag orders on federal employees that prevent them from communicating with Congress. It has been widely reported that the Trump Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced a federal grand jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging DWAYNE WINANS, JR., a/k/a “Butter," age 22, and BRYSON TUESNO, age 21, both of New Orleans, with various counts of carjacking, bank robbery, and obstruction of justice. WINANS was previously indicted on October 6, 2016 for the August 4, 2016 robbery of a Fidelity Bank located at 5530 Crowder Boulevard in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Delonte Gregory Parker, age 25, of Laurel, Maryland, late on Jan. 25, 2017, to 90 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for a heroin distribution conspiracy, and for possession of a firearm and ammunition by ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Dr. Miguel A. Contreras, a senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy Lab located in Golden, Colorado, has paid the United States $80,000 to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by knowingly double-billing his work-time and submitting false timesheets and false travel reimbursement forms to his employer while he privately consulted for three energy companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Mary Sosa, 57, of Amherst, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to three counts of Making False Statements, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: (SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - Saladin Hadid, 37, and Cory Ogletree, 43, of Syracuse, were arrested last night and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine. United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian jointly announced the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Search of Business Led to Discovery of Hundreds of Child Pornography Videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The manager of an auto restoration and collision center pled guilty today to charges that he conspired with others to sell vehicles that were brought to the business by the U.S. Department of State, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Steve A. Linick, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State, and Timothy R. Slater, Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Keystone, South Dakota - On January 26 the Carvers Cafe at Mount Rushmore National Memorial will begin to transform. Food service will move from the Carvers Cafe to the Memorial Ice Cream Shoppe next door offering breakfast, a variety of lunch or dinner options and of course Thomas Jefferson ice cream.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Anthony J. Klatch, II (35, previously of Tampa) with one count of wire fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - According to signed documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, Charles F. Denno, 66, of East Providence, a former finance director for the Providence Plan, has agreed to plead guilty to devising and executing a scheme in which he fraudulently converted more than $500,000 of Providence Plan funds for his own use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today, in unrelated cases, indicted a Talladega County man and a Franklin County man on charges of distributing methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brett Hamilton.
