News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Damian Quillinan, age 44, of Ballston Spa, New York, pled guilty today to receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rick Kesterson, 37, of Glouster, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court for unlawfully killing an Osprey in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, it is unlawful to kill any migratory bird except as allowed by regulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Derrick L. Kinchen (39, Fort Myers) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. As a three-time convicted felon, he was subject to enhanced penalties under the Armed Career Criminal statute. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm and ammunition associated with the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Army Reservist has pleaded guilty to stealing six machine guns and 10 handguns from a U.S. Army Reserve facility, escaping from federal prison, and attempting to rob two banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Galloway, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of nearly $500,000 by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
Release: SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest passenger screening technology in the security checkpoint at the new terminal at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport (SBP).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Allennie Naeole, 55, a resident of Kaunakakai, Hawaii, and Janell Purdy, 40, a resident of Wailuku, Maui, were arrested on Nov. 13, 2017, as a result of a federal indictment charging them with embezzling more than $1 million from a Molokai federal credit union over a seven year period of time.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Two Charged Federally in Credit Union Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Nov. 13, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert District is soliciting nominations from the public for five members of its California Desert Advisory Council to serve three-year terms. The council’s 15 members provide advice and recommendations to the BLM on the management of more than 10-million acres of public lands in eight counties of southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A former Business Manager for the Reno Valley Retirement Center was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for stealing from an elderly resident’s bank account, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at the markup of the Senate tax overhaul package, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statement after President Trump nominated Alex Azar as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: All 24 Defendants in the United States Have Pleaded Guilty; 61 Charged in Total.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - On Nov. 13, 2017, Deborah Lee Dowden, 61, of Defiance, Missouri, pled guilty today one felony charge of making a false statement to a health care program. In her plea agreement, Dr. Dowden admitted that her medical license suspended on June 11, 2013 because of her failure to pay her...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - James Gonzales-Gay, 35, of Sanger, pleaded guilty today to assaulting a mail carrier with the intent to commit robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General David L. Hunt today requesting an investigation into whether FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has taken improper actions to benefit Sinclair Broadcast Group.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on news that President Trump nominated pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar to the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Newport News man today for making a false distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old man from Houston has entered a guilty plea to bribery of a federal employee, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
