News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: William K. Witherspoon (803) 929-3000.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Big Oak Flat Road Remains Closed from Crane Flat to Foresta Junction.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement after meeting with Scott Gottlieb, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Misused Government Property to Punish Fort Lee Mayor for Not Endorsing Gov. Christie’s Re-election.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office is seeking comments to begin the process of developing an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) management plan for the Piute-Eldorado Valley ACEC. Comments are due by May 31 and would be most helpful if they focused on providing information about how people are currently using the area as well as resource issue concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Christine Corazo Holscher, 47, and Mark E. Holscher, 54, of Pennsauken, NJ, were charged yesterday by Indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States and multiple counts of tax fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the indictment, for several years Corazo...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL BENNETT, 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JEANA MARIE MARTINEZ, age 33, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $52,530.13 for EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1163 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christian Gonzalez, age 23, and Anthony Ocasio, age 21, both of Scranton, Pennsylvania, were charged on March 28, 2017, in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury for multiple counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman - As you know, I am an original cosponsor and strong supporter of H.R. 1695, the “Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017." This bipartisan and bicameral legislation was developed in collaboration with our Senate colleagues, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this week, 46-year-old Bryan DeWain Splawn was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christian Gonzalez, age 23, and Anthony Ocasio, age 21, both of Scranton, Pennsylvania, were charged on March 28, 2017, in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury for multiple counts of bank robbery.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - A man was arrested at Albany International Airport (ALB) Monday night, March 27, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers caught the man trying to carry a loaded.45 caliber semi-automatic handgun past a security checkpoint. Not only was the gun loaded, but the man also had an extra ammunition magazine for a total of 14 bullets.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Daniel Keith Steele was sentenced today to seven years in prison in connection with a fraud scheme involving trading in foreign currencies. Steele pled guilty in October of last year to soliciting more than $2 million from more than 20 investors who had hoped to realize the extraordinary returns promised by Steele, which were sometimes as high as one percent to five percent per month.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Marc Christopher Harmon was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jonathan Faucher (39) of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempting to rob a convenience store and a robbing a bank in Manchester.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fred Swan, Jr., 28, and Jessica Henton, 28, both of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint. Swan is charged with Hobbs Act Robbery, use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possession...
