News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in Orlando, Florida, has permanently barred Jason Stinson, of Longwood, Florida, from preparing federal tax returns for others and from owning or operating a tax return preparation business, following a six-day bench trial held in 2016, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: FBI Offers Rewards for Information in String of Homicides in Mount Vernon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has entered a guilty plea to receiving bribe money in exchange for providing addresses of postal ballot recipients, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) today requesting information about the agencies’ plan to permit the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, a site...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS - Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, pled guilty today to eight counts of armed bank robbery. Emeaghara is the armed robber dubbed as the “Buckeye Bandit" by law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS - Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, pled guilty today to eight counts of armed bank robbery. Emeaghara is the armed robber dubbed as the “Buckeye Bandit" by law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A jury has convicted a Memphis man of illegally possessing a firearm. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Senate repealed the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Planning 2.0 Rule using the Congressional Review Act, a previously arcane law Republicans have used since the beginning of this Congress to eliminate a host of federal regulations without regard for the economic or environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Miguel Rangel Arce, 36, a Mexican national unlawfully in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Miguel Rangel Arce will be deported after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Lombardo, 25, of Lancaster, NY, who was convicted of possession and receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 188 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has entered a guilty plea to receiving bribe money in exchange for providing addresses of postal ballot recipients, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Anthonio Miller (26, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on March 6, 2017, Thomas C. Balsiger (age: 63) of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced in Federal Court in Milwaukee to 10 years in prison to be followed by 3 years’ supervised release. Mr. Balsiger also was ordered to pay over $65 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL KLEIN, the former treasurer of the Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department (“MVFD"), pled guilty today to wire fraud, subscription to false tax returns, obstruction of the grand jury, and false statement charges before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, March 18, at 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain National Park will offer a special evening program event in collaboration with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Join us at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center auditorium for an interactive evening with Rocky’s former Artist-in-Resident, adventurer-composer...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kiet Ly was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing more than 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Sept. 21, 2016, in which Ly admitted he possessed with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Florida resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal robbery laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Arthur Larange Lee Jr., 33, of Gainesville, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with sex trafficking by force and use of a facility of interstate commerce to promote prostitution. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Sidman, Pa. was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
