News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Cambria County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conversion of government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assaulting, Opposing, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Former Rhode Island House Finance Chairman Raymond E. Gallison, Jr., 64, of Bristol, R.I., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Providence to federal mail fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and tax charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: MAR 09 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Aurelle Huckabee, 22, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah returned a 176-count indictment yesterday against George Mack Bird, III, 58, a Georgia physician who operated a medical practice in Dodge County and a diet clinic in Laurens County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Edgemont, South Dakota, man convicted of Transfer of Obscene Matter to a Minor was sentenced on March 6, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Williamsport, MD - The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) will be temporarily lowering the water level at the Cushwa Basin (MM 99.6) at Williamsport to perform repairs to Lock 44. This work project will waterproof the lock gate so that historic reproduction launch boats will be lifted and lowered...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 7, 2017, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Grede, LLC, and Grede II, LLC (also known as Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries, LLC), the corporate owners and operators of the former Grede...
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Undermining Democratic Institutions and Splintering NATO: Russian Disinformation Aims." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted five men on charges of conspiracy to possess, conceal and sell stolen firearms; conspiracy to commit a commercial robbery; and using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to crime of violence, in connection with the armed robbery of a federally licensed firearms dealer. The indictment was returned on March 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Priscilla Ann Ellis (52, Killeen, TX) guilty of murder-for-hire, retaliating against witnesses, and conspiring to create counterfeit securities. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing on the war in Yemen and efforts to resolve the three-year long conflict and combat the terrorism threat from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which controls significant territory within the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Iranian man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for access device fraud and 60 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud, to be served concurrently, in connection with an international scheme to sell credit card information online. He was further ordered to pay $36.6 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Two men who were allegedly operating a “honey oil" lab in Cherry Valley when it exploded and severely burned one of them now face federal charges of operating an illegal drug manufacturing facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: FBI San Diego Presents 2016 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award to Pacifica Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found an Opelousas man guilty Tuesday of robbing three local businesses at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Dallas County twin brothers were sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted five men on charges of conspiracy to possess, conceal and sell stolen firearms; conspiracy to commit a commercial robbery; and using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to crime of violence, in connection with the armed robbery of a federally licensed firearms dealer. The indictment was returned on March 8, 2016.
