News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Today, all seventeen Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to request information about his decision to abruptly settle United States v. Prevezon Holdings Ltd , a money laundering case that the Department of Justice (DOJ) abruptly settled that involved Russia sanctions, New York real estate holdings, and the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the Federal Aviation Administration will award $185.1 million in airport infrastructure grants to 107 airports in 40 states across the United States as part of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women and Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Kevin John Grimm, 61, was sentenced to serve 27 months in federal prison for his role in defrauding furniture manufacturer Herman Miller Inc. in a vendor invoicing scheme. The Honorable Paul L. Maloney, U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: One of the persistent challenges in 21st century metrology is the need to measure ever-more-detailed properties of ever-smaller things, from microchip features to subcomponents of biological cells. That’s why, four years ago, a team of NIST scientists patented the design for a nanoscale probe system...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Edwin Sanchez, 31, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin and cocaine, was sentenced to 168 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAVIER CANIZALEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 40, from Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 12, 2017, Brandon Scott Woodley, 35, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Leon R. Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 120 months in prison for knowingly possessing ammunition after having been previously convicted of a felony. Woodley was convicted in December 2016 after a jury trial in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant possessed videos and thousands of images of prepubescent children engaged in sex acts with adults.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is undertaking a listening session process as an initial step in the development of a visitor use management plan (the plan) for Eisenhower National Historic Site (the park). The purpose of the plan is to maximize the ability of the National Park Service to encourage access...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 42-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been arrested on federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAIME AGUILAR-MENCIA, age 33, a native of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr, announced today that Gursharan Singh, 34, of Brompton, Ontario, Canada, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal judge sentenced 30-year-old Ramiro Martinez to 121 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Brendt A. Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill., with kidnapping visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang on June 9, 2017. Christensen was previously arrested and charged by criminal complaint on June 30. On July 5, U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long ordered that Christensen remain detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jule Futrell, age 44, a resident of Endicott, New York, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 208 months’ imprisonment for multiple armed robberies of banks and another business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to robbing 10 banks during a 19-day spree from late December 2016 to early January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PETER HASKELL, 32, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
