News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abner Joe, 55, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nochise Martinez, 23, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ramah, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Martinez will be on supervised release for three years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that three more individuals have been charged with insider trading in connection with the acquisition of the Shaw Group. A federal grand jury sitting in the Middle District of Louisiana has indicted KELLY LIU, age 31, SALVADOR...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM COSME, a/k/a WILLIAM COSMO, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 111 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud a Christian missionary school in South Korea of $5.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Today, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Loretta F. Radford, filed a four-count Federal Complaint against Benjamin Don Roden, a 28-year-old resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, accused of using an explosive device to cause destruction of the Bixby Air Force Recruitment Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEVONTE WEST, age 21, of Hammond, pled guilty today to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Miami-Based Physician Pleads Guilty for Role in Pain Pill Diversion and Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Defendants Made Millions By Artificially Inflating The Companies’ Stock And Inducing Elderly Investors To Purchase That Stock.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service has announced that the beach at Mount Baldy, located in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, will reopen on July 14th at noon. The Mount Baldy area has been closed since the summer of 2013 when holes began opening up on the dune’s surface from decaying trees. Safe access to the beach was also destroyed by beach erosion.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on federal offshore oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Panel members discussed the benefits of expanding access to the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific and Alaska for coastal communities, job creation nationally, and increased revenues for both states and the U.S. Treasury.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at the full Committee hearing, “Beyond Microfinance: Empowering Women in the Developing World:".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Jesus Nieto, 20, of American Falls, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 300 months in prison for enticing and coercing two underage girls, followed by 15 years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Nieto to pay a $5,100 special assessment. Nieto pleaded guilty to the charge on March 2, 2017.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House of Representatives passed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017 (H.R. 2200). Introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the bill reauthorizes the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, a landmark bill that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Neubert, 46, of San Diego, CA, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life imprisonment, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted VICTOR ZELAYA-FUNEZ, age 37, a Honduran national residing in Zachary, Louisiana, for possessing and attempting to produce child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2251 and 2252A. He faces a mandatory minimum 15-year prison term.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Beyond Microfinance: Empowering Women in the Developing World, " which is part of a series of hearings to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Austin Carr, age 23, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with armed bank robbery, the armed robbery of a convenience store, and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two Luzerne County men were indicted on July 11, 2017, by a federal grand jury on bank robbery charges.
