News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Gary R. Tomey II, 47, of Pace, Florida, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison after he was found guilty of conspiracy and mail fraud during a two-week jury trial. He was also ordered to pay a $1,219,129.46 forfeiture money judgment and $6,677 in restitution. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Kenneth Bowman, Jr., 63, of Terry, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to five years of supervised probation and ordered to pay $86,849.34 in restitution for bankruptcy fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Acting U. S. Trustee Henry G. Hobbs, Jr. of Region 5, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. Bowman pled guilty to the charge on Sept. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mary B. McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio today, a jury convicted 32-year-old Adrian Pineda-Orozco, an undocumented alien residing in Houston, for his role in scheme to smuggle over 43 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine into the United States announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dennis Allen High, 29, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, pled guilty to illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman has been indicted for committing a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank and for submitting false tax returns to the IRS. The indictment alleges that Raenette K. Yangson, 42, while employed as a bookkeeper for Western Construction and Equipment, an Anchorage business, embezzled more than $750,000.00 from the company between 2006 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Alicia Gardner, 43, of Dallas, appeared in federal court this afternoon and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to one count of aggravated identify theft, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Rocky Mount man, who contacted at least two local teenagers via social media and exchanged explicit sexual messages with them and attempted to coerce them into meeting with him to engage in sex acts, pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold its organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 24th, at 11:15 a.m. in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. At the organizational meeting, members will consider adoption of the committee rules and oversight plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant Accepted Over $150,000 In Bribes From Favored Contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman has been indicted for committing a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank and for submitting false tax returns to the IRS. The indictment alleges that Raenette K. Yangson, 42, while employed as a bookkeeper for Western Construction and Equipment, an Anchorage business, embezzled more than $750,000.00 from the company between 2006 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was arraigned today on federal charges related to his role in an identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Georgetown, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of embezzlement in connection with health care, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Twentynine Palms, CA- Joshua Tree National Park - The Park has implemented a planning process to expand the existing visitor facilities adjacent to the Cottonwood Visitor Center on the southern border of the park. The 20 year old, double-wide trailer that currently serves as the park’s visitor center can no longer meet the needs of an increasing number of park visitors.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Idaho Falls, ID-- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, to discuss several issues affecting the local offices. The meeting will be held at the BLM/Forest Service Office located at 1405 Hollipark Drive, Idaho Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: JAN 20 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Daniel Guillen, 28, of Wallingford, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with distributing fentanyl and anabolic steroids.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the confirmation by the full Senate of Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Starting Jan. 23, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be repairing and resurfacing the dirt road leading to Soledad Canyon Day Use Area and the parking lot to Bar Canyon Trail. The work to be done will require the BLM to impose a partial closure of the dirt road and parking lot from January 23 to 27, with a full closure from January 30 to February 3. The closures will not affect the residents located off the dirt road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an El Dorado Springs, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a mail fraud scheme by which she stole more than $380,000 from her employer and to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROSEMARIE COLLAZO, 51, of Yonkers, N.Y., waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud stemming from her theft of more than $700,000 from her employer.
