News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYAN WHITE, 40, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 198 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Six co-conspirators of the Loren Toelle drug trafficking organization were sentenced Tuesday and Wednesday to prison on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. The sentences were part of a significant drug investigation and prosecution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that MARYSE LIBURDI pled guilty to defrauding investors in a technology company founded and operated by LIBURDI. As a result of LIBURDI’s fraud, the victim-investors lost more than $6 million. LIBURDI...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a federal jury in Columbia convicted Emanuel Cheeseboro, a/k/a “Mandoo", age 35, of Columbia, South Carolina, of six (6) counts of possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine and marijuana, a violation of 21...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation will increase flows from Lucky Peak Dam by an additional 500 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Friday, June 23, 2017, at 8 am. The Boise River reservoir system continues to be in active flood control operations in this unusually high water year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for all 160 acres offered in the state of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Asuncion Sarminento Arguello a/k/a Asuncion Arguello Sarminento, age 34, of Veracruz, Mexico, was sentenced in federal court today to 108 months imprisonment followed by a term of three years’ supervised release. On Feb. 27...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Preyed on the financially disadvantaged and filed over 2300 fraudulent returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Julio Vicente-Rios, a/k/a “Julio V. Rios," a/k/a “Pablo Reyes-Ortiz," of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Dec. 2, 2016, Vicente-Rios, an alien, and native and citizen of Guatemala, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Feb. 15, 2008, and Dec. 29, 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Coleman, 47, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, was sentenced to 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Edgar Maddison Welch, 29, of Salisbury, N.C., was sentenced today to four years in prison on charges stemming from an incident in which he carried a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and a revolver into a Northwest Washington pizza restaurant, scattering employees and customers, and fired his assault rifle into a door.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta is encouraging travelers to Fly Smart this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that this morning, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Angel Speed, 26, of Columbus, MS, was sentenced to 39 months in federal prison for crimes arising from his participation in a large stolen property fraud ring. The stolen property ring operated in the Metro East and numerous other locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, former Suffolk County Conservative Party Chairman Edward M. Walsh, Jr. was sentenced to 24 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release, $202,225 in restitution, and $245,811.21 in forfeiture. Walsh was convicted at trial in March...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Communicated with Young Teen Girls Requesting and Exchanging Sexually Explicit Images.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with money laundering in connection with an overseas undercover investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight hearing with Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke to examine theTrump Administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 and new policy priorities of DOI and its subagencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD) announced the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the filing of a criminal complaint charging MICHAEL WRIGHT with commodities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced David Meadows (53, Leesburg) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit various computers and electronic devices that he had used to facilitate the offense. Meadows pleaded guilty on March 17, 2017.
