News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Yesterday, following a two-day trial before U. S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, a federal jury convicted Savannah resident Maynard Sanders, 33, of 15 counts of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and aiding and abetting theft by a bank employee. Sanders’ convictions came on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, July 26, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Jose Alfredo Morales, 34, of Albany, Oregon, to 24 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Morales, who managed GNA Supplies, a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer (FFL) in Albany, Oregon, previously pleaded guilty on May 17, 2017 to one count of unlawful possession of a silencer.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senior DOE officials, industry executives and community representatives from across the U.S. are set to participate in the 2017 National Cleanup Workshop, scheduled for Sept. 13-14 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on PNC and Bank of America ATMs to steal at least $428,581 pleaded guilty today in Newark federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tammie Sensenig, age 46, of Denver, Pennsylvania was sentenced July 25, 2017, by United States District Court Judge William C. Caldwell to serve 46 months’ imprisonment for health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Gary Paul Moorman (34, Cincinnati, Ohio) has pleaded guilty to interstate prostitution. Under the terms of the, Moorman will be sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum penalty for this offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Samuel Pratt, a/k/a “Promise," age 35, of Gastonia, North Carolina was sentenced to life in federal prison and his mother, Daphne Pratt, age 53, of Gastonia, North Carolina was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison. Samuel...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Missouri man was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 22 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography via the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford seafood manager was charged today in federal court in Boston for failing to report $75,000 in earnings on his tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant admitted to attempted murder. BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique in Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy involving the attempted murder of a rival gang member. Angel Pineda, a/k/a “Bravo," 21, a Honduran national who resided...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WILKES-BARRE-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Eric Mann, age 27, of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to three years’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for trafficking in methamphetamine in the Lehighton area in September 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 2199, the “Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2017" or the “FLAIR Act." Introduced by Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), the bipartisan bill requires the Department of the Interior to create a publicly available register of federal real property to increase transparency and improve management of the federal estate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -A woman who falsely claimed to be a naturopathic doctor pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to defrauding patients at a Hoover clinic in 2015, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert Posey and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique in Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy involving the attempted murder of a rival gang member.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, has made the following statement regarding allegations against Word of Faith Fellowship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lafayette tax preparation business owner was sentenced last week to 36 months in prison for filing a false tax return and not paying more than $350,000 in taxes owed.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent David Hallac is pleased to announce that Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) and the Outer Banks Preservation Association (OBPA) are partnering on a messaging program to encourage all beachgoers to reduce their impacts along the Seashore by remembering that what...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Charity Eleda, R.N., 56, of Rowlett, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas on a health care fraud conspiracy conviction, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: ARPA-E today announced up to $20 million in funding for a new program to reduce the cost and increase the energy efficiency associated with providing electric power to commercial and industrial end users.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Elijah Chaffino, 37, of Scottsdale, Arizona, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 kilograms or more of marijuana, was sentenced to time served by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
