News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Florida Resident Pleads Guilty to Stolen Identity Refund Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Residents in Beaverhead, Silver Bow and Jefferson counties could see some smoke in the air in the coming months as the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office burns slash piles near Wise River, Clancy and Boulder.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a report compiled by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) at the Members' ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jeffrey Scott Beard, 37, entered his guilty plea to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Robert Twiss Sentenced for Being a Felon in Possession of a Rifle.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Nearly 1,000 people toured the former gaseous diffusion plant at the Paducah Site during the first two seasons of public tours that began in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Mr. Hiland was nominated by President Donald Trump on June 29, 2017, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Sept. 28, 2017. He took the oath of office today at 1:30 p.m. from United States District Court Judge J. Leon Holmes, and began work immediately after the ceremony.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, TX - On Oct. 10, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had ceased most programmed enforcement actions following Hurricane Harvey, resumed normal enforcement throughout Texas and Louisiana.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA). The new procedures, which were announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARIO HERRERA, a/k/a “Mo," was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and oxycodone. HERRERA pled guilty to one count of narcotics conspiracy on June 2, 2017, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Tuan Dinh Nguyen, 29, a Vietnamese national living in Melbourne, Australia, appeared in federal court in Boston today on charges that he participated in an international scheme to use stolen payment card data and personally identifiable information to purchase and re-sell hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of consumer goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr. has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Mr. Higdon was nominated by President Donald Trump on Aug. 2, 2017 and confirmed by the United States Senate on Sept. 28, 2017. He took the oath of office from Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Business E-mail Compromise Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing more than $100,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 10, 2017 - Keno Deandre Lane, aka Savage, 25, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced on October 6, 2017, to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for making a false declaration before a grand jury, announced United States Attorney Donald Q. Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. James Otis Daniels, 43, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- In a new, collaborative effort, Utah federal, state and local government officials established the Financial Fraud Institute and will hold a multi-agency seminar designed to educate Utah investors and consumers on how to recognize and avoid financial and consumer fraud, announced U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regional Director Richard R. Best and U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah John W. Huber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Junction City man who took part in a woman’s kidnapping that led to her murder was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: "Wilmington Trust Company (WT) has been a fixture in this community for more than 100 years. This is why the bank’s decline and the fire sale acquisition by M&T Bank was such a significant development in this community; and why this office has invested substantial time, energy and resources in the investigation and prosecution of this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tameen “Nitty" Johnson, 39, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to serve 235 months in prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun as a prior convicted felon. Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy also ordered that Johnson serve a five-year term of supervised release following his release from federal prison.
