News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment on her convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of heroin and conspiracy to commit money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Standing Rock, South Dakota, woman convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Newark, N.J. - The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey orthopedic care provider today admitted stealing over $1 million from the company for his personal use, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Greenville Safe Neighborhoods held its second notification meeting Monday evening in Greenville. Led by Chief Ken Miller and the Greenville Police Department, GPD launched Greenville Safe Neighborhoods in March, holding...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shawn Sylvia, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced TYLER JONES, 21, of Henderson, NC to 84 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. Also...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that August Battaglia, doing business as QMP Sales, satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jimmy Lee Barner, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon-in-possession of a firearm before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Scammed Elderly Victims. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered four consent decrees in two civil actions, permanently barring 14 individuals and entities from operating alleged multi-million dollar international mail-fraud schemes. The defendants, located...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Sinful Innocence" talent agency used as front for prostitution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Timothy Joiner, age 34 of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 20 years in Federal prison for attempted sexual exploitation of children. The sentence was handed down on Nov. 20, 2017, by Chief United States District Court Judge Clay D. Land in Columbus, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: HILLIARD FAZANDE, III (“FAZANDE"), age 50, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a Bill of Information today for bank theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. U.S. Attorney Blader was nominated by President Donald Trump on August 3 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 9. He took the oath of office from Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for possession of a sawed-off shotgun, transportation of explosive materials, and possession of a destructive device, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An individual who threatened in a post on his Facebook page to kill everyone in Knoxville on Thanksgiving Day was arrested earlier today by agents with the Knoxville FBI. Dale Jeffries II, 43, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was taken into custody shortly before 2:00 PM on Wednesday, November...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Service is an honor. It’s also an opportunity to effect change, to make progress, to develop possibilities. That’s why I’m so pleased to have joined the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK MERCEDES was found guilty yesterday of murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, for his role in the murder of Richard Diaz, 28, in Manhattan in 1999. MERCEDES was convicted after a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - Crews working for the U.S. Geological Survey Research Drilling Unit are anticipated to begin work on a groundwater monitoring well in the northwest portion of the Mammoth Mountain RV Park in Mammoth Lakes, during the week of Nov. 27.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 19 members and 3 alternate members to serve on the United Soybean Board. The producers appointed to serve three year terms include.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: A man who sent threatening “tweets" on the Internet to United States Senator Joni K. Ernst was convicted by a jury today, after a one-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
