News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - To celebrate American Indian Heritage month, November’s featured story is “Nittak Hollo Nakfish! It's Saturday," a fun book written by the American Indian author, Laura Clark. The book is written in both Chickasaw and English languages. A ranger will read the English version but will insert...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging the owner of several Milwaukee-area gas stations with labor-related crimes involving his business that occurred between 2009 and 2011. Harshinder Bhatia (age: 58), was charged...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months’ probation on his conviction of accessing a protected computer without authorization and initiating spam messages, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 187 months in federal prison for trafficking a 17-year-old girl for sex, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Fei Yan Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges Involving Trading Ahead of December 2016 Acquisition of Mining Company.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FEI YAN, who works as a post-doctoral associate at a major research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to insider trading. In December 2016, YAN made...

By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the Department of Labor’s decision to appeal a flawed decision by a Texas judge that ruled against the Obama Administration overtime...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is seeking enthusiastic, organized, community- and people-oriented individuals for two unique opportunities in the park’s volunteer program.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 187 months in federal prison for trafficking a 17-year-old girl for sex, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Marty, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - An Arlington man has been sentenced to federal prison for soliciting a minor child through social media. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Bodies Were Discovered Over Four-Day Period.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TREVON GROSS and YURI LEBEDEV were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to prison in connection with a bribery scheme to take over control of a federal credit union and a related fraud scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Steven Simmons Defrauded Investors and Diverted Fraudulent Proceeds to His Own Use.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyannis woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to her role in a widespread Cape Cod heroin scheme run by the Nauti-Block Gang.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ralonte Terrell Swain, 25, of Jasper, Ala., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Swain entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends a sentence of a five-year term of imprisonment.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: You are cordially invited to attend two upcoming events relating to one of the largest drug takedown in southern Colorado history on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 and Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017.

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Ranking Democrat of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao urging immediate action to address the backlog under the Federal-aid Highway Emergency Relief (ER) program. Currently, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to participating in a fraudulent credit card chargeback scheme that primarily targeted internet services businesses.