News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following incidents at several health care facilities during recent natural disasters, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today questioned the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about its new nursing home emergency preparedness requirements. Hatch and Wyden also requested responses from state agencies in Florida and Texas regarding their preparations and responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Eleven men in New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and Florida were charged today for their roles in a scheme that used stolen identities to order smartphones and other electronic goods and then paid drivers with a parcel delivery company to divert those goods to members of the conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: KEMMERER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management will be removing dumpsters at all but one of its recreation sites during the winter season.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting the Garden Mountain Prescribed Burn, located approximately two miles northwest of Crouch, Idaho. The burn will occur between Oct. 23 and Jan. 1, depending on weather, fuel and ground conditions. Once initiated, burning operations are expected to last up to one week and have the potential for smoke to be visible from large distances.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOVANNI REYES, 23, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Defendants Illegally Stored Hazardous Wastes and Falsified Labels to Deceive Environmental Inspectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Robert F. Lasky Named Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Shelby County woman to more than 24 years in prison for producing child pornography of an eight-year-old relative in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE KINNEY, 34, of Plainfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a former Monroe post office employee pleaded guilty to stealing mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Yesterday, Michael Shawn Garrett, 45, of Panama City Beach, Florida, a colonel in the Florida Air National Guard, was convicted of attempted enticement of a minor for sex. The trial lasted two days and was held in the U.S. District Court in Panama City. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston woman who stole from the Tornado Post Office in Kanawha County pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Martha Edele, 34, entered her guilty plea to theft of government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Eleventh FBI-Wide Operation Cross Country Arrests Three Suspected Sex Traffickers in Washington State.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced today that a former executive board member of the Big Coulee District of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe was sentenced in federal court on Oct. 13, 2017 to 3 months of imprisonment. Ann German, 59, of Peever, was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $11,475, and to serve three years of supervised release after serving her prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led all 18 Democratic Committee Members in sending a detailed, ten-page letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy laying out the case for issuing a subpoena to compel the White House to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: James Briggs, 46, of Brentwood, Missouri, pled guilty to an information charging one-count of Making a False Claim against the United States. Sentencing was held immediately after the plea hearing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, Don Boyce, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge John J. Durastanti of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Kent Waller of the Carlsbad Police Department (CPD) announced that Richard Fierro, 43, of Roswell, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Defendants Helped Manipulate the Stock Price of CodeSmart Holdings, Inc.
