News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jason Lee Smith, 39, previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. After Smith is released from prison, he will be on federal supervised release for 15 years, and will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Authorities recovered $20 million concealed in mattress box spring.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: At an astounding 39 percent, the United States takes the cake for having the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world. The nation’s effective corporate tax rate, or the actual rate paid after deductions and credits, is also globally uncompetitive, ranking fourth highest among G-20 countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Assaulted and Seriously Injured a U.S. Postal Service Letter Carrier with a Brick.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 384,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tamara Donald, 39, Loves Park, Ill., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to two years of probation for theft of mail. In addition, Donald was order to pay $117.87 to the victims in the case. Donald, formerly a postal support employee at the U.S. Post Office in Beloit, Wis., pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Oct. 12, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against John Ballard, 55, and Judy (Calderon) Ballard, 54, of Atwater and Sherry Herbert, 54, and Andrea Todd, 53, of Fresno, charging them with conspiracy, wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with a fraudulent short-sale scheme, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced that Gerald Wallace, 35, pleaded guilty to threatening to shoot members of a mosque in Miami Gardens, Florida. Wallace pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to one count of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by making the threatening call.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), today 41 Senate and House Democrats introduced the Protect Access to Birth Control Act, legislation to rescind the Trump Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 30-year-old Longview, Texas man has been convicted of federal violations for his role in a student financial aid fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for smuggling the profits of an over-fishing scheme to Portugal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A foreign national residing outside of the United States has been sentenced in federal court to term of imprisonment of time served as to Count 17 and six months imprisonment as to Count 18, to run consecutive as to Count 17 on his conviction of charges of money laundering and aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Magistrate Judge Camille L. Vélez-Rivé authorized a criminal complaint against Franklin Martínez-Rodríguez, charging him with attempted Hobbs Act robbery and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, said U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mingo County woman pleaded guilty today to a sex trafficking crime involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Misty Dawn Baisden, 40, of Delbarton, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss- A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Mississippi recently indicted a Chinese national for conspiracy to distribute large quantities of fentanyl, fentanyl analogues and other deadly chemicals in the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam, Mississippi Commissioner of Public Safety Marshall Fisher and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John M. Dowdy, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the National Park Service (NPS) announced it has permanently ended a planning and rulemaking process intended to establish new regulations related to dog management at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) in California. The decision follows the completion of an independent review of the dog rule planning and rulemaking process.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl throughout the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management High Desert District plans to burn slash piles in the Lousy George and Currant Creek Ridge Juniper Project areas in the coming months. Currant Creek Ridge is located approximately two miles to the south of the Currant Creek Ranch, while Lousy George is approximately 40 miles to the south/southwest of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for unlawfully possessing multiple firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
