News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of OMAR SHARIF BEASLEY, 39, for leading a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy. BEASLEY, who was charged along with 40 other co-defendants on May 20, 2015, pleaded guilty to Count 1 of the indictment. The defendant was sentenced today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Jason James Neiheisel (27, Jacksonville) with distributing child pornography over the Internet. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. He was arrested by FBI agents at his residence on May 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND- Karim Akil (also known as Scott Kinney) was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Grants, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed burn on approximately 1,500 acres within the El Malpais National Conservation Area (NCA), located approximately 40 miles southeast of Grants, New Mexico, beginning May 15, weather permitting. Fire...
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A federal appeals court has affirmed that Pan Am Railways, Inc. must pay $260,000 in punitive and compensatory damages to - and take corrective action on behalf of - an employee who was subjected to retaliation for filing a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRENDA ALLEN AIRINGTON, age 55, of Kellyville, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Good morning and welcome. Cybersecurity is one of the most significant issues facing the country, as it affects every sector-from manufacturing to finance to government to energy. In July 2012, General Keith Alexander, then Director of the National Security Agency, stated that the loss of industrial...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM LIEBERMAN, 41, of Boca Raton, Florida, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy and tax offenses stemming from his role in a securities fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Melvin Petersen, 55, of St. Thomas, was sentenced today to 31 months in prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez also sentenced Petersen to three years of supervised release, and ordered him to forfeit $6,726 to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: After President Donald Trump abruptly fired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, all Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary, led by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the ...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: The Director of the Intermountain Region, National Park Service (NPS), recently signed a decision document that will enable Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) to conduct reroutes and repairs to the Aspen Brook and Twin Sisters trails that were damaged in the September 2013 flood.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on May 3, 2017, and concluding on May 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Parish Barbary-Wheatherby, 21, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today to three years of probation by U.S. District Judge William Conley for his role in passing counterfeit U.S. currency at numerous merchants in southern Wisconsin. Barbary-Wheatherby pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 27, 2017.
By State Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cortney Vogt, 37, of Ontario, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office is seeking public input as it begins to analyze the renewal of grazing permits in the Silver Creek Common Allotment. The Silver Creek Common Allotment is located in Fremont County about 50 miles south of Lander and contains more than 30,000 acres of public land.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Yosemite National Park will open the Glacier Point Road to all vehicular traffic at 9:00 am on Thursday, May 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Peter J. Forcelli for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division; Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Found in Ithaca, He Faces Up to 10 years Imprisonment.
