News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced yesterday that Wilfredo Tanon Rodriguez, 54, formerly of Nashua, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute more than a quarter kilogram of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, is launching a prize competition seeking ideas for long-term corrosion protection for large, hydraulic steel structures...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court for a carjacking that ended in a multiple-vehicle collision with injuries and the death of the car owner’s dog.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Dairon Julio Jimenez Roja, 26, of Austin, Texas, was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft in connection with a credit card fraud scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations to fill an upcoming vacancy on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), a Federal advisory committee. Written nominations, with cover letter, resume, and an advisory committee background information form, must be postmarked or received on or before by Aug. 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A cardiologist with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, his wife, and a doctor with a practice in Woodland Park, New Jersey, were charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme involving Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: A Hudson man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for laundering approximately $1.5 million in proceeds from marijuana trafficking, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Sitesh Bansi Patel Was Previously Tried and Convicted in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Adolfo Castaneda-Garcia Has Four Previous Removals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Melfa man who amassed tens of thousands of digital images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today urged Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to maintain funding for counterterrorism teams after the Administration’s recent budget proposal included...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a firearm that he brought into the federal courthouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced SHAMIEKA GOODALL, a/k/a Donna Diva, 30, of Covington, Georgia to life imprisonment followed by 5 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that SHALOM LAMM pled guilty to conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process, in connection with an election in Bloomingburg, New York. LAMM pled guilty earlier today before United States District Judge Vincent Briccetti in White Plains federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Albert Shih-Der Chang, the former Lead Systems Engineer for a Dallas technology company known as One Technologies, appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: A Hudson man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for laundering approximately $1.5 million in proceeds from marijuana trafficking, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 10 a.m. in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Promoting Security in Wireless Technology."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next week, members of the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), will host a Showcase to explore the possibilities of the latest technology wave called the Internet of Things (IOT). “IOT" refers to the growing network of connected objects...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, the Honorable James C. Dever III, Chief United States District Judge, sentenced KAY WEEKS FISHER, 67, of Whitakers, North Carolina, to six-months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and a $25,000 fine for making material false statements.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - The BLM High Desert District is planning two prescribed fires as part of multi-year projects to manage fire fuels in the area and improve local habitats. Both projects will take place on public lands administered by the High Desert District’s Pinedale Field Office. The burns will take place in June and will begin only when conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn.
