News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Fulton County, Kentucky, business owner and contract supplier pled guilty today in United States District Court before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS - Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, the Mount Locust Inn and Plantation site along the Natchez Trace Parkway will be open six days a week. Hours of operation will be Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, and closed on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Queens Man Convicted for Defrauding Financial Institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an indictment charging FOZIA SHEIK ALI, 50, for fraudulently obtaining at least hundreds of thousands of dollars for child care services that had not been provided. ALI is charged with wire fraud and theft of public money. The indictment was unsealed late yesterday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Richard Wallace Heald, III, age 26, of Greenville, pled guilty Wednesday in federal court in Anderson, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Patricia Cook, age 59, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and attempted witness tampering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jarrod M. Langford, 25, of Orlando, Florida, was arrested today in Florida after a federal grand jury in Fresno returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Irick Dron Oneal, age 43, of Midland, faces up to life in federal prison after a jury in Midland convicted him of the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this week, a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments against former prison guards announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL GUILLEN, 28, of Wallingford, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with distributing fentanyl and anabolic steroids. The charges stem from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics dealers who distribute heroin, fentanyl or opioids that cause death or serious injury to users.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two companies located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, have each been sentenced in federal court to 36 months’ probation and have each been ordered to forfeit to the United States $500,000 on the companies’ convictions relating to their introduction of adulterated and misbranded cheese products into interstate commerce, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Fulton County, Kentucky, business owner and contract supplier pled guilty today in United States District Court before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: BOISE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet at the Boise District Office on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Boise at 3948 S. Development Avenue. A public comment period will be held at 11 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - An Asheville man was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to 48 months in prison for dealing in firearms without a license, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Conley Dale Patterson, 72, was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision upon completion of his prison term and to pay $2,300 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Wilbert Theodore (30, Miami) and Ralph August Lohier (27, Miami) have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of hundreds of individuals this week, which brings President Obama’s record to 1,715 commutations in total...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced former U.S. Postal Service employee Lori A. Parry, age 44, of Baltimore, on Jan. 19, 2017, to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on charges related to her fraudulent receipt of federal worker’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 55-year-old Lubbock, Texas, man, Danny Ray Caudill, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2016 to one count of attempted enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jarrod M. Langford, 25, of Orlando, Florida, was arrested today in Florida after a federal grand jury in Fresno returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
