News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Former CFO Admits to Embezzling Money and Evading Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Leesville woman pleaded guilty to falsifying records and otherwise concealing that more than $1 million had been stolen from a local bank.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: BOZEMAN - As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the USGS and Yellowstone National Park would like to inform the public that biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) and Yellowstone National Park will be conducting scientific grizzly bear and black bear research operations in Yellowstone National Park from May 7 through July 30.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - FBI agents today arrested a Hoover man on multiple charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Received More Than $700,000 From Criminal Activities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: COUER D’ALENE - Loren Michelle Toelle, 52, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder money, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Loren Toelle to 212 months...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MALCOLM HAYNES, also known as “Black," 26, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing armed robberies of the Allingtown Post Office in West Haven and the Wells Fargo Bank in Hamden on April 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that SHEENA CHANDEL MEIKLE, age 28, of Tahlequah, 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 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JEFFREY GREEN, a former correction officer at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women (the “Bedford Facility"), pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul E. Davison to violating the constitutional civil rights of an inmate by sexually assaulting her at the Bedford Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jackie Johnson, age 31, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 11, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges. The indictment was unsealed on April 25, 2017, following Johnson’s initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis real estate investor has pled guilty to a charge of bank fraud. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for wire fraud and perjury in connection with a scheme to defraud DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. by falsely claiming that the company stole from him the characters and story for its animated movie Kung Fu Panda.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Good morning. My name is Corey Amundson. I serve as the Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana where I have been a career federal prosecutor for over 15 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, United States District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Pamela Jean Gygi, 58, of Westlake, Oregon to ten years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Gygi pleaded guilty on Jan. 23, 2017 to using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - A crackdown on violent street gangs in San Diego County over the last 75 days has resulted in federal charges against more than 140 gang members and associates, many of whom are accused of terrorizing neighborhoods with shootings, robberies and other violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Gas Station Operator Pleads Guilty in Mississippi to Discharge of Hazardous Pollutant Into City Sewage Treatment System.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, signed on to cosponsor a bipartisan bill that will help Missouri small businesses protect themselves against cyberattacks by expanding resources designed to help them safeguard their digital data.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Derek I. Hunt, 28, of Santa Fe, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass and criminal damage to property. Hunt’s plea agreement includes a recommendation that Hunt be sentenced to a one-year term of probation, including 120 days in a halfway house.
