News from November 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - An attorney who lives in El Monte pleaded guilty today to federal fraud and money laundering charges for participating in a multi-faceted scheme that collected more than $50 million from foreign investors seeking “Green Cards" through the EB-5 visa program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Anthony David Gentile, age 57, of Queens, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences. Research supported by this initiative will provide fundamental understanding to enable future advances in energy production and use.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of a Southern California ambulance company and a former employee of a Los Angeles dialysis treatment center both pleaded guilty today to fraud charges for their roles in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $6.6 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. Three other individuals charged in the case previously pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Charles M. Hallinan, 76, of Villanova, PA, and Wheeler K. Neff, 69, of Wilmington, DE, were found guilty today by a federal jury of two counts of conspiracy to violate the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO") relating to “payday lending" businesses, one count...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has issued the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for Fiscal Year 2018. The Phase I Release 2 FOA, with approximately $16 million in available funding, will provide funding for innovations that address multiple research and development programs throughout DOE...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: Idaho Falls, Idaho-- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District will be hiring wildland firefighters for the 2018 fire season. Job applications will be accepted starting Nov. 27, 2017 with an early cutoff date of Jan. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: SEATTLE - Former Seattle police officer pleaded guilty today for his role in the smuggling of hundreds of pounds of marijuana from the Seattle area to Baltimore, Maryland. Alex Chapackdee, 44, of Seattle, was a 16-year veteran of the Seattle Police (SPD), who resigned shortly after his arrest in May...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Earlier this month, the last of 17 defendants in a nationwide drug trafficking and money laundering cell, Ramon Llamas, 55, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by United States District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 168 months’ imprisonment after he previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: ST. GEORGE, UTAH - The Bureau of Reclamation and State of Utah are initiating negotiations for a water exchange contract, which proposes exchanging the state’s assigned Green River water right for use of Colorado River Storage Project water released from Flaming Gorge Dam. The negotiation meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 4, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. at the Dixie Convention Center, 1835 South Convention Center Drive, St. George, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shayliss Ellsworth, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ellsworth faces a prison sentence within the range of 70 to 87 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Rossi, who is handling the case, stated that between 2012 and 2017, Young sexually abused a minor female, beginning when the child was only four or five years old. By the time the victim turned nine years old, the defendant produced child pornography depicting the victim...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 16 1/2 years in prison for the armed robbery of Ricco’s Pizza in Hampton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 47-year-old professional photographer Christopher Alexander Reilly, doing business as Chris Reilly Photography, faces between five and 40 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to federal child pornography charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 47-year-old professional photographer Christopher Alexander Reilly, doing business as Chris Reilly Photography, faces between five and 40 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to federal child pornography charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC BOONE, 48, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Judge Meyer also ordered BOONE to perform 100 hours of community service while on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -- A Brimfield, Ill., man, Thomas L. Bledsoe, 53, has been sentenced for concealing insurance policies valued at more than $100,000 from the U.S. Trustee and creditors in his bankruptcy petition. On Nov. 22, U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade ordered that Bledsoe serve the first 10 months of a two-year period of supervised release in home confinement. Bledsoe was also ordered to pay a fine of $3,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Eight-to-Twelve-Year Prison Sentence and Requires Restitution in Amount of $4,812,857.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Nathan Joe, 36, of Nazlini, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 21 months in prison for physically abusing a child on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
