News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Today, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Cedric Richmond, CBC Member At-Large Yvette D. Clarke, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., and CBC members Mia Love, Frederica Wilson, and Barbara Lee issued the following joint statement concerning reports that U.S. Citizenship ...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Grand Teton National Park will host a bird-watching caravan on Saturday, May 13, 2017 to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day. Led by park ranger and skilled naturalist Andrew Langford, the caravan will visit areas throughout the park that provide the best opportunities to locate, identify, and record birds. The activity is free and reservations are not required.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago trader was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison for defrauding investors out of more than $9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lancaster-based radiation therapy center has paid $3 million to resolve allegations that it submitted fraudulent bills over a nearly 10-year period to three government-run healthcare programs for unsupervised radiation oncology services.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. B A Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying to investigators in a 2016 interview during a search for fugitive Orlando J. Collins, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena resident has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for distributing child pornography over a peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Victor Rosario, 32, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 7½ years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin. Rosario pled guilty on January 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 9, 2017, D’Juan Manuel Pizarro, 27, of Steamboat, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Pizarro had previously pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Wells Field Office began an emergency wild horse gather on May 8 in the Antelope Herd Management Area (HMA) to remove approximately 60 wild horses from private land near Boone Springs approximately 40 mile southwest of Wendover due to a projected lack of water this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lucas Obi, age 53, of Toronto, Canada, a former Western Union and MoneyGram agent, pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to defrauding thousands of victims out of approximately $4.4 million via international mass marketing, consumer fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Joseph Goldman, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland today to one year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing unregistered firearms and for making a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Washington - Washington potato producers will vote from June 9-23, 2017, on whether to continue the federal marketing order regulating the handling of Irish potatoes grown in Washington. Producers who have produced potatoes in Washington from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, are eligible to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Benjamin David Romero, 38, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Romero will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Norfolk FBI and Chesapeake Conference Center Partner to Educate Senior Citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who falsely represented himself to be a successful securities trader and investor pleaded guilty today to stealing monies as part of an investment fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena resident has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for distributing child pornography over a peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Victim Was Attacked While Finishing his Route in Edgewood Neighborhood.
