News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced Monday that Keith B. Noden, 45, of La Vista, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court for possessing child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Noden to four years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Noden will begin a five-year term of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three doctors were each sentenced today to over two years in prison for taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar woman pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Amanda Renee Taylor, 40, entered her guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BOBBY HEMINGWAY, 36, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: A Medina man was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for stealing $245,000 from his employer and using the money to pay for a country club membership, vehicles and purchases at Victoria’s Secret and GNC, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Joseph K. Rander, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 37 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Inland Empire man pleaded guilty late this afternoon to a federal child exploitation offense after coercing at least six boys around the nation to send him sexually explicit videos - some of which were posted on the internet when victims refused to send additional images and videos.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial is inviting the public to weigh in on the future management of the park’s landscape at an open house on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 from 3:30 to 5:00pm at the park’s Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The wife of the former Tabasco, Mexico, Secretary of Finance has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury in Corpus Christi returned its verdict late Friday against Silvia Beatriz Perez-Ceballos, 49, of Sugar Land, following 10 days of trial and approximately five hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Oct. 13, 2017, United States District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Charleston Harris a/k/a “Giovanni," a/k/a “Leon Baye," age 38, of Maryland to 14 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About Two Bank Robberies in Palm City, Florida and Port St. Lucie, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2017, to more than 11 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that following back-to-back jury trials completed in federal court in Buffalo late last week, two members of the Schuele Boys Gang, Aaron Hicks and Roderick Arrington, both of Buffalo, NY, were convicted of crimes arising out...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Cleveland Linder, Jr, 33, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2017 before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to conspiring to distribute heroin in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a ceremony Monday at the Treasury Department, the Isle of Jersey in the British Isles shared nearly $3.6 million in confiscated assets from a long-term drug trafficking investigation with the United States. This is the first accomplishment under the permanent bilateral forfeited assets...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: After sending a letter to the IRS regarding the agency’s now suspended contract with Equifax, a bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting information on its data security vetting and requirements for awarding government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: More Than 70 Investors Bilked Out Of Over $6.5 Million.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a rollback of the Obama administration’s favored practice of ‘sue and settle’ agreements.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) joins The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History , as well as local, national, and international organizations committed to the advancement of nuclear energy in celebrating Nuclear Science Week.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: After sending a letter to the IRS regarding the agency’s now suspended contract with Equifax, a bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting information on its data security vetting and requirements for awarding government contracts.
