News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyrone Brown, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO Conspiracy in connection with two deadly shootings, was sentenced to 264 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for making a terroristic threat in the Eastern District of Texas announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Florida Man Convicted at Trial of Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Providing Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas hunting guide was indicted Tuesday on charges of violating the Lacy Act and the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Two of the guide’s employees and a hunter from Georgia also were charged.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. President:. Yesterday, from the White House podium, your spokesperson, Sean Spicer, announced that State Department employees who offer dissent to your executive order on immigration and refugees should “get with the program or they should go." We are alarmed by Mr. Spicer’s apparent lack of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that LRGP Gang Member Fred Keys, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 360 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Matthew T. Martin, 32, of Weathersfield, Vermont, was sentenced today to a prison term of fifteen years, followed by five years of supervised release, and $25,514 in restitution. United States District Court Judge J.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) today released the following statements in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: FBI Presents Adopt-A-School Program in Racine at Gilmore Middle School.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Jan. 30, 2017, Michael Erik Lindseth, 44, Devils Lake, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 10 years and 3 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM’s Jon Tanaka is a supervisor at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex at the Nevada National Security Site. Watch this video for a perspective of his job at the complex, where he’s worked 12 years. “The waste brought here was created for many important reasons for our country," he says...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced the United States of America, on behalf of Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, settled the lawsuit Ballard v. Mabus, CV13-00024 (D. Guam). The Plaintiff claimed that the Navy created a hostile...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Shawn Howells, age 43, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with possessing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park recently recognized Ray Singley with an incentive award for outstanding performance of his job in the structures preservation branch of the park’s maintenance division. Ed Clark, Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent, presented the award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Mexican nationals were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA and the Southern District of New York today announced the arrival of four individuals from Kenya to New York charged with participating in a massive global drug trafficking enterprise, and includes the leader of a well-known organized crime family in Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The final seven of eight convicted in a $6 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
