News from June 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 1873, the “Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act," by a bipartisan vote of 300-118. Introduced by Reps. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), the bipartisan bill provides streamlined processes for the removal of hazardous vegetative overgrowth within or adjacent to electricity infrastructure on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin and fentanyl drug trafficking operation based in and around Taunton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an Irvington, New Jersey, man who distributed multiple kilograms of crack-cocaine and powder cocaine was sentenced today to 108 months in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - A Hawaii man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison on state child pornography charges stemming from a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children (HICAC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: JUN 21 - MIAMI, Fla. - Guy Philippe, a former high-ranking Haitian National Police officer was sentenced today in Miami, Florida, to 108 months in prison with an order for a money judgement in the amount of $1.5 million to follow. Philippe previously pled guilty to a money laundering charge in connection with an international narcotics scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Kenneth James Hatzenbeller, 65, of Great Falls, Montana, former owner of several Montana restaurants, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and 3 years supervised release for bank fraud. He was also ordered to pay $1,077,866.82 to two banks. U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been convicted in federal court of illegally possessing PCP and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two leaders of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang were each sentenced to 360 months in prison for their respective roles in a racketeering conspiracy that involved murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to distribute heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Justice Department Conducts Animal Fighting Investigations Training.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Stolen Credit Card Numbers Were Purchased from Offshore Computer Hackers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: FERNDALE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is continuing a low-cost firewood-cutting program at the Lost Coast Headlands near Ferndale, where North Coast families can stop by the public lands to obtain an economical source of home heating for next winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Mario Donate Lockhart (37, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his multiple prior felony convictions, he qualified for an increased penalty as an Armed Career Criminal. He pleaded guilty on March 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Federal Jury Convicts Stacey J. LaPorte, Jr. of Six Federal Felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Today, sixteen Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to request that he schedule hearings immediately “to examine events that now extend well beyond any investigation into Russian influence-including the firing of FBI Director James Comey, allegations of obstruction of justice, and the inconsistent application of the Attorney General’s recusal from these and related matters."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: A 49-year old man from Quebec, Canada, was arrested this morning on charges of committing an act of violence at an airport, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel Lemisch. Lemisch was joined in the announcement by David P. Gelios, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Thomas Burch, 75, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty today to a federal charge of wire fraud, arising from his embezzlement while he was the president of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men who were arrested in California with 15 kilograms of cocaine bound for New Jersey were arraigned today in Newark federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Mario Donate Lockhart (37, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his multiple prior felony convictions, he qualified for an increased penalty as an Armed Career Criminal. He pleaded guilty on March 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced Joel Fuller, age 46, currently a resident of Florida, to six months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for failing to remit employee payroll taxes to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Alan Mikkelsen today released the spending plan for $112.3 million of the total $179.3 million provided to Reclamation in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017, which provided funds in six categories within Water and Related Resources for Reclamation...
