News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Cornelius N. Mattress., age 43, of Anderson, was sentenced in federal court in Greenville for his leadership in a conspiracy to commit mail theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. United States...
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement about changes in U.S. policy toward Cuba.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: ALTURAS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Applegate Field Office in Alturas will be closed from Monday, June 26, through Friday, June 30 for office renovations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Twenty-Three Alleged Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Members and Associates Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Department (AGFD), the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will partner on an aerial survey of wild burros in and near the Lake Pleasant Herd Management Area beginning June 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY SCULLARK, also known as “A.J." and “Ace," 31, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to falsely representing a number to be his social security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Corey Megill Brown, 47, the former Pastor of Second African Baptist Church in Savannah, was sentenced today by District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 28 months in prison for defrauding his former church and its parishioners of money for over 6 years. In addition to his prison sentence...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, WV - New River Gorge National River staff announce that work has begun to improve and rehabilitate sections of the park’s popular Long Point trail located between Fayetteville and Oak Hill.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced it has rescheduled its hearing titled, “Examining the Extension of Safety Net Health Programs." The hearing will now take place on Friday, June 23, 2017 at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.as they are posted. See Also
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Audrey Montserrate (50, Dania), Benancio Lopez (53, St. Cloud), Richard Ellis (30, Miami), and Donald S. Sutliff (42, Kissimmee) to federal prison terms for laundering proceeds from a fraudulent sweepstakes scheme. As part of the sentences, the Court also entered a money judgment for the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Each previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DARYL CAMPBELL, a/k/a “Taxstone," pled guilty yesterday to two federal weapons charges in connection with his possession of a semiautomatic handgun at Irving Plaza on May 25, 2016, the night a man was shot and killed there and three others were wounded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 44-year-old Beaumont man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, a jury convicted 40-year-old Austin and Houston resident Marvin Lewis (aka “Beau Louis"), who represented himself at trial, of federal charges in connection with a series of robberies and attempted robberies in Texas in 2014 and 2015 as well as one robbery in Ohio in 2015. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, OK - Denise E. Gibson, Budget Officer of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Oklahoma, was one of 179 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 33rd Director’s Awards Ceremony Friday in Washington D.C., announced Mark A. Yancey, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine from California to Alaska by mail, for further distribution in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Anchorage, and elsewhere within the State of Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coeur d’Alene Field Office has issued decision records for the Wallace Forest Conservation Area (WFCA) Vegetation Treatments and Trails Project at Blue Creek Bay. One decision addresses forestry and hazardous fuels treatments while the other guides implementation of recreation enhancements at the site. The 751-acre project area is located eight miles east of the City of Coeur d’Alene.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) is currently revising its Beneficial Reuse Program. The Program, which was created for the purpose of identifying productive uses of LM sites after they have been cleaned up, supports LM’s goal of maintaining environmental remedies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Former U.S. Naval Attaché and Military Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador in the Philippines Sentenced for Taking Bribes in Massive Navy Corruption Scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
