News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Steven Nygren, 50, of Salem, Massachusetts, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank fraud, credit card fraud and tax evasion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with First Degree Murder - Felony Murder, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury of a Minor, Felony Child Abuse-Aggravated Battery of an Infant, and Felony Child Abuse and Neglect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced today that a former staffer with Harrisonburg Votes, a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party, who was paid to register area voters during the weeks leading up to the 2016 National Election, admitted in federal court that he caused 18 fraudulent Virginia Voter Registration Forms to be submitted to the local registrar’s office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) today urging a hearing for Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to testify on the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Princeton man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Frederick Torrefiel de Mesa, 38, entered his guilty plea to obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two Tyler, Texas men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to review congressional authorizations for the use of military force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD FULTON, 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Edred Buchanan, 40, of Woonsocket, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for committing two bank robberies a week apart in November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to possession of oxycodone with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Ronald Johnson used stolen investor funds to buy an island on Mink Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that EMIL RENSING pled guilty in connection with his scheme to defraud his employer, a premium cable network (the “Network"), of more than $7 million through false statements about purported services...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: COUER D’ALENE - U.S. Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Dr. Stanley Toelle to one month in federal prison to be followed by one year supervised release for submitting false income tax returns in 2012 and 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Toelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Somerville woman was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for theft of government funds. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Georgetown woman pleaded guilty last week to making fake U.S. $20 bills.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Elko District Office, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has completed the Pseudomonas fluorescens Field Project Environmental Assessment (EA), DOI-BLM-NV-E000-2017-0003-EA. The EA and an unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) are posted for public review until July 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On June 20, 2017, Victoria Lovan, age 67, of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey and was sentenced to 16 months in prison for charges related to a Nigerian email scam, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Lovan was sentenced to 16 months of imprisonment for three counts of wire fraud, and was ordered to pay restitution to the victims.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: A crew of seven Alaska Fire Service firefighters are currently working to suppress the 18-acre lightning-ignited Pass Creek Fire in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The fire was 50% contained as of the morning of Tues, June 20, and is expected to be fully contained by this evening. The firefighters are being supported by a medium helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant faces at least 10 years and up to life in federal prison.
