News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Levar Washington, age 37, an inmate at United States Penitentiary, Allenwood, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann to 72 months’ imprisonment for assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Thomas Szczerba was sentenced to 140 months for his involvement in the transportation of a woman from Texas, through Illinois and Wisconsin and ultimately to the Eastern District of Missouri to engage in prostitution. The victim was posted on www.Backpage.com and other prostitution related websites, including a prostitution website maintained by Szczerba and his co-defendant Keisha Edwards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Joseph Dinapoli, 28, of Cushing, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 30 days in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. He pled guilty on Aug. 22, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, May 20, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer a guided hike to the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, highlighting its significant paleontological and recreational resources. The three-mile hike will begin at 9:00 a.m., from the second parking lot located near the Monument entrance, and will last approximately three hours.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men and a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today, in three separate cases, to charges related to child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the expected release of guidance implementing the expanded “Global Gag Rule" by the Trump Administration.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission meeting scheduled for June 5 has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: MAY 15, 2017 - The 2015 Annual Survey of State Government Finances provides a comprehensive summary of annual survey findings for state governments. The findings show revenues, expenditures, debt, and cash and security holdings for each state, as well as a national summary of state government finances. The major source of these public finance statistics are the states’ own accounting systems or through intermediate reporting systems.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Logan August, 30, of Bakersfield, and Derrick Penney, 34, of Star, Idaho, former deputies with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Guatemalan man, illegally present in the U.S., was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison Friday for two counts of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Philip Vincent, 38, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and possession of a weapon in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 60 months by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joshua Brandon Vallum, 29, of Lucedale, Mississippi, was sentenced today in the Southern District of Mississippi to 49 years in prison for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant Was Convicted of Similar Offense in 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Australian man who ran one of the largest automobile dealerships in the United States before fleeing the country 29 years ago was sentenced this morning to 120 months in federal prison in a bank fraud scheme that caused more than $64 million in losses to banks, one of which collapsed as a result of the losses suffered in the scam.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to press reports that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats...
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A Panamanian national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, died early Monday at an area hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell and efforts by facility staff and emergency personnel to revive him were unsuccessful.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Fritch, Texas - Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will be holding the first of three scheduled “Star Party" events this year on Saturday, May 20, 2017. This event is part of the Night Skies Program in which, we celebrate evening activities in the park. The remoteness of Alibates Flint Quarries...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two individuals and one company pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to violations of the Clean Air Act. Sean P. Doctor, 50, of Buffalo, NY pleaded guilty to making a false statement under the Clean...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Three Laredo men have entered guilty pleas for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from Laredo to the Dallas area via the use of tractor trailers, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was convicted today of coercing a minor family member to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he photographed the abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
