News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Napoleon Robinson, 65, of Lauderhill, Florida, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for charges of evasion of employment tax payment. Robinson was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay over $508,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Lonnie Cecil Buchanan, Jr., 47, of Monroe, N.C. to 294 months in prison on kidnapping, witness tampering and firearms offenses, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of SANDRA LEE BART, 69, to five years in prison for requiring foreign workers on temporary H-2A work visas to pay illegal fees and kickbacks. BART was found guilty by a jury of conspiring with others to commit fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
Release: Bulgarian consumers now have online access to a variety of American food and beverage products thanks, in part, to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The I america website, started by a team of young Bulgarian entrepreneurs, carries more than 200 U.S. brands and products new to the Bulgarian market, including soft drinks, condiments, candy, breakfast foods and snack items.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 33-year-old Dallas man has been sentenced to federal prison for burglarizing a bank in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment late on Jan. 24, 2017, charging Kevin Graham Conlon, age 30, of Cockeysville, Maryland, with: production of child pornography; receipt of child pornography; and cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a New Bedford gym was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy involving heroin distribution throughout Bristol County, Mass. and Providence, R.I.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Jan. 25, 2017, Francisco Torrez, 35, Carson, Cali., was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance. Judge Erickson also sentenced Torrez to serve five years of supervised release, and to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim’s Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Melissa Strohman, age 54, of Nottingham, Maryland, pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud and bank embezzlement, arising from a six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at the bank where she worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LESTER MORNAY, 68, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced that the Committee will hold its organizational meeting for the 115th Congress at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. At this meeting, the Committee will consider its committee rules package and the oversight and authorization plan. Subcommittee leadership and assignments will also be confirmed at the organizational meeting.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 141,224 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: San Diego State University Associate Professor of Anthropology Todd Braje will use the northern Channel Islands as a case study to explore the history of Chinese abalone fishing in southern California during the February From Shore to Sea lecture.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: The original 19th century Raven/Shark Pole has returned to Sitka National Historical Park after being on display at the Anchorage Museum for 30 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Paul Allen, 61, of St. Anthony, Idaho, was indicted Jan. 24, 2017, by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham-based financial advisor has agreed to plead guilty in connection with defrauding his clients by engaging in a multi-year “cherry-picking" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 21-year-old Freeport man has been convicted of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Justin Larson, age 30, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for distribution of acetyl fentanyl, which resulted in death; conspiracy to distribute narcotics; five counts of possession or attempted possession of a controlled substance and controlled substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Josiah Larkin was sentenced to 37 months in prison and was ordered to pay $184,798 in restitution for filing, and conspiring to file, false federal income tax returns announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Assistant Special Agent in Charge IRS Criminal Investigation, Tyrone W. Blanchette. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Susan Illston, United States District Judge, after a six-day trial in September of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Ridder, 45, of Albion, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
