News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JOSHUA NOBLE, 39, to 60 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography through online chatrooms. NOBLE was charged by felony information on April 17, 2017, and pleaded guilty on June 29, 2017, to one count of distribution of child pornography. NOBLE was sentenced yesterday before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing drugs in New Bedford.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor this morning during consideration of H.R. 3922...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Honduran national charged with a federal immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston. Yener Jacobo Sabillon-Thompson, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. U.S. District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The National Park Service (NPS), in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), seeks public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) to establish a right-of-way for TVA to construct a new aerial transmission line across the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) near Kosciusko, MS. The EA analyzes the impacts of permitting the right-of-way for transmission line construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach returned an indictment yesterday against three high-volume Florida real estate investors for conspiring to rig bids submitted through the online property foreclosure auction process, the Department of Justice announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on 17 of its 36 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), including the Carrizo Plain National Monument Advisory Committee. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maria A. English, 28, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Patterson, 25, of Rochester, NY, was convicted after a jury trial of possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man, who is a previously convicted felon and supporter of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), pleaded guilty today to acquiring a firearm three weeks after he was released from state prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Gene...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Jonathan Julian Garcia, 38, a Dominican national residing in Roxbury, was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with one count of illegal reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man, who is a previously convicted felon and supporter of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), pleaded guilty today to acquiring a firearm three weeks after he was released from state prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Attack Took Place in Broad Daylight.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Ranking Members of the Committees on Science, Space & Technology and Energy & Commerce sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly opposing the directive he issued imposing severe limitations on the scientific advice and expertise that the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: A Norwalk man was indicted on multiple charges after fraudulently inducing teen girls into engaging in sexually explicit conduct and recording the conduct under the false promise that he was producing a pornographic film, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
