News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Stephen Lewis McNeely, age 43, of Marietta, South Carolina, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Greenville, for felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g). United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Cain sentenced McNeely to 92 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Thayer, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 87 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Dwayne Thomas (21, Miami) with one count of credit card fraud and nine counts of identity theft. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison for the credit card fraud count and up to 5 years’ imprisonment on each of the identity theft counts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today convened an executive session to mark up the nomination of David J. Kautter to serve as U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. Please find below his opening statement as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: JUL 20 - (ORLANDO, Fla.) - Jeremy Achey, 43, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand in Boynton Beach, Florida, with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of controlled substance analogues. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Terrebonne, Ore. - The Prineville District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) partnered with local residents and Deschutes County to develop an emergency exit route while maintaining recreational opportunities and supporting conservation as part of the agency’s multiple-use mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Oscar Ivan Salazar-Avalos (Salazar), 27, a native and citizen of Mexico, and Jose Manuel Sotelo-Mendoza, aka Jose Manuel Mendoza-Sotelo (Sotelo), 25, of Modesto, charging them with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON CRUZ, a former teacher and debate coach at the Bronx High School for Science, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for receiving images containing child pornography from minor teenage boys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Seven men from Cuyahoga County were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David Sierleja and Trevor Velinor, ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The last of twenty defendants have been sentenced for their involvement in a large-scale, methamphetamine trafficking organization operating primarily within Taylor County. During the fall of 2014, an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force began investigating the distribution ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nineteen Western Pennsylvania residents have been charged with violations of the federal narcotics laws in three separate, but related, indictments returned on July 11, 2017 and unsealed today, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, helped locate the missing fishing vessel Destination at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation. The Destination and its six crew members were lost Feb. 11, 2017, while fishing for snow crab northwest of St. George, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced James P. Smith, an independent insurance agent, to 63 months in federal prison for defrauding his clients from February 2011 to July 2016. Smith, 61, of the 5400 block of Traughber Road, Decatur, Ill., was also ordered to pay $349,777...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, in an interview with the New York Times , President Donald Trump indicated his contempt for the leadership of the Department of Justice. The President directly attacked the credibility and fairness of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, acting FBI Director ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site is pleased to partner with the National Park Foundation and “The Mission Continues" in offering a six-month part-time fellowship at the park for a qualifying post-9/11 U.S. Armed Forces veteran. Application must be made through “The Mission Continues" website no later than Thursday, July 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Justin Laurence McKinley (49, Jacksonville) to 30 years in federal prison for communicating over the Internet with foreign nationals and soliciting the live molestation of children for online viewing. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision upon his release and to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s House floor vote on the Republican-backed King Cove Road Land Exchange Act (H.R. 218 ) - a bill that greenlights construction of a habitat-destroying road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) pointed out...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Scott Valente, age 60, of East Greenbush, New York, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for running a large investment fraud scheme. Valente was also ordered to pay $8,616,113.39 in restitution to his victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: The House is expected to consider an Appropriations package next week made up of the Defense, Military Construction & VA, Legislative Branch, and Energy & Water Appropriations bills, in addition to funding for a border wall. Here are 6 important things to know.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Beckley, W.Va. man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with his scheme to sell paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, on Craigslist.
