News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - In separate hearings today, two inmates at United States Penitentiary at Lee County, Virginia in Jonesville received additional prison time for possessing prohibited objects inside the prison, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: An annual event, National Park Week runs from April 15 through April 23 this year, featuring free entrance to all National Park Service sites on both weekends, as well as special activities.
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged his Senate colleagues to support a resolution of advice and consent for Montenegro’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Senate voted 97 to 2 on a procedural motion ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A U.S. Navy senior chief who stole personal identity information of sailors under his command was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for identity theft and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in mid-Missouri.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: A man will spend 51 months in prison for sexually assaulting another man in Yosemite National Park. Floyd Fowler, age 54, will spend three years on supervised probation following his prison term. Additional terms of his probation include mandatory participation in a sex offender treatment and therapy program, and cooperation in the collection of his DNA as directed by probation officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: North Carolina Return Preparers Indicted for False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Esthela Clark (47, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to a charge of forced labor. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - In separate hearings today, two inmates at United States Penitentiary at Lee County, Virginia in Jonesville received additional prison time for possessing prohibited objects inside the prison, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: A two-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Tara Lenich, a former supervisory Assistant District Attorney with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (KCDA), with illegally intercepting oral and electronic communications...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Joshua Francisco Miranda, age 29, of Waldorf, Maryland, today to eight years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing two bank robberies in March 2016. Judge Chuang also entered an order requiring Miranda to pay restitution of $7,800.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Spring has sprung. With the seasonal page on the calendar officially turned, the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office has re-opened some of its recreation sites near Helena for public use.
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Sunday’s protests in Russia...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Lynchburg, VIRGINIA - A North Carolina man, who conspired with others to make money by cashing checks that had been stolen and altered, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for a gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Troy Walter Simpson, 39, of Liberty, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The owner of former payroll company, Innovative Payroll Services LLC (IPS) admitted today he operated a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme through his company, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following statements after President Donald Trump signed into...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JADE BELINDA ADAMS, age 33, of Durant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to THEFT OF PUBLIC MONIES, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Kay F. Gow (66, Naples), Robert T. Gow (75, Naples), and John G. Williams, Jr. (65, Virginia Beach, VA) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, wire fraud, and illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The two owners of a New Jersey jewelry store who used the business to further one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department were both sentenced today for their respective roles in the scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
