News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - James Kerr Schlosser, 59, of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania was convicted of engaging in corrupt endeavors to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service and to willfully failing to file tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Lou Lappen. Schlosser, a manufacturer's representative for companies that sold medical equipment and surgical devices to various health care providers, stopped filing federal income tax returns in 1995.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Threatened to Kill Rochester AUSA.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Tom Carper called for an in-person briefing on how White House officials will ensure full government accountability and transparency. The request to White House Counsel Don McGahn follows reports of President Trump deleting tweets, White House top staffers...
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: Member of Camden, New Jersey, Drug Trafficking Organization Admits Drug Conspiracy and Firearm Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced that its National Response Team (NRT) has joined the investigation into the hotel and condominium fires on Lake Avenue in Ocean Grove, N.J., that destroyed the Warrington Hotel and several houses and severely damaged two condominium complexes on March 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Two residents of Johnstown and Philadelphia, Pa., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Chandler Carter, age 60, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Possession of Child Pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Central Ore. - If conditions remain favorable, fuels specialists with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Prineville District Office will continue with their winter prescribed burning program tomorrow, 12 miles south of Prineville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant Clipped Fins after Illegal Catch Broadcast over the Web.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa) sent a letter to President Trump today requesting removal of all marine monument fishing prohibitions and reinstatement of fisheries management under federal law.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - ZTE Corporation Tuesday has agreed to enter a guilty plea and pay a $430,488,798 penalty to the U.S. for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, 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 robbing Arvest Bank, after which he had his hair and beard shaved off at a nearby barber shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Two residents of Johnstown and Philadelphia, Pa., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
Release: Dubuque, IA - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the deployment of the latest checkpoint screening technology to Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: More than 150 adult marijuana plants seized from a sophisticated growing operation inside a former Providence mill building.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded unanimous Senate passage of his resolution to raise awareness about modern slavery and human trafficking. February 23rd marked the END IT Movement’s fifth annual “Shine a Light on Slavery ...
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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
Release: Waterloo, IA - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the deployment of the latest checkpoint screening technology to Waterloo Regional Airport (ALO).
