News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an El Dorado Springs, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for 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 | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ernest Dyer, age 44, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that the group responsible for ATM thefts at several local banks pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Generated $1.4 Million in Illegal Profits by Selling Fraudulent Software Activation Keys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JOSHUA WADE CARTER, age 42, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Alaskan couple was charged in federal court in Juneau, Alaska, today with four counts of willful failure to pay their individual income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of the Orchard Park Trailblazers was indicted today in federal court in Boston for distributing cocaine in a school zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Jason May, 40, of Lamar County, Mississippi, and Gerald Jay Schaar, 46, of Biloxi, Mississippi, entered guilty pleas on July 25, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, for their roles in a multi-million dollar compounding pharmacy health care fraud conspiracy, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Spiotto, age 29, of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 60 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by life of supervised release for Conspiring to Produce and Production of Child Pornography. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Chief Judge P. K. Holmes, III in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Angel Luis Carrasco-Rivera a/k/a Manuel Calcagno, age 54, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to serve 27 months’ imprisonment for committing perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Phoenix, Ariz. man was sentenced today to 819 months in prison in connection with the armed assault against federal law enforcement officers that occurred in the Bunkerville, Nev. area in April 2014, over rancher Cliven Bundy’s trespassing cattle from public lands. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Chief Judge Gloria M. Navarro sentenced Burleson to three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant Accidentally Shot Himself With Gun That He Unlawfully Possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Today, a federal jury convicted a West Palm Beach resident of conspiring with his brother, a United States Postal Service Letter Carrier, to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. President: Every day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to protect America from health and safety threats. On any given day, those efforts may include interventions to combat the nationwide opioid epidemic, to respond to the ongoing Zika virus outbreak, or to prevent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -The sole proprietor of two companies that purportedly provided printing and digital marketing services to the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for defrauding the agency, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Typically, the Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veteran’s Affairs, Energy and Water, and Defense bills would be debated and amended by the full house individually.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Edwin Ferrer, age 44, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a handgun, ammunition, and crack cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the reported resignation of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Bill Miller...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal indictment1 was unsealed today charging Mayor Edwin Pawlowski, 52, of Allentown, for alleged violations of federal public corruption laws, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment charges Pawlowski with 14 counts of bribery, 9 counts of mail fraud...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Homestead National Monument of America.
