News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Salvadoran gang member with the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, who was wanted in his home country for two murders, was deported Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Pacific Western Bank (“PacWest") has paid $1.75 million to resolve allegations that First California Bank, which PacWest acquired in 2013, violated Section 951 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), codified at 12 U.S.C. § 1833a, by facilitating the embezzlement scheme of Kinde Durkee, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to conduct a Commission-level review of the resiliency of our nation’s networks and the effect of the Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a high-ranking member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his role in orchestrating a murder, participating in a separate attempted murder, and conspiring to distribute crack-cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s issuance of two deeply troubling documents...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Matthew C. Riley, 50, of Narragansett, a former Narragansett Police Department K-9 Officer, was arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Providence on a federal grand jury indictment charging him with the transfer of obscene matter to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MAASEIYAH WILLIAMS, JR., 22, of Montville, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a prior federal conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Parker, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Lake Havasu Field Office is planning to conduct prescribed burning on the Parker Strip, October 9 through April 1, 2018, as weather conditions allow. The burn area is located seven miles northeast of Parker, Ariz., and half a mile west of Parker Dam Road near Crossroads, on the California side of the Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant underreported income by more than $4.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on Oct. 3, 2017, and concluding on October 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in the Western District of New York returned an eight-count indictment against former Erie County, NY Democratic party chair G. Steven Pigeon for bribing a New York State supreme court justice.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (D-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess today requesting immediate hearings to examine the Trump Administration’s readiness for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Meylisi Rueda, 22, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARTHA OJEDA, age 41, of Pflugerville, Texas, pled guilty as charged yesterday to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - More than 224 NPS employees from 90 national parks and offices across 36 states continue to support the parks in South Florida and the Atlantic Coast. The National Park Service recognizes that tourism is a major contributor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Teresa Malone, 56, of Carthage, Mississippi, entered a plea of guilty to paying kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner (MDOC) Christopher B. Epps in exchange for receiving a consulting agreement involving the MDOC and its operations, announced Acting United States Attorney Harold Brittain and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Stole Resume Information From Over 700,000 Customer Accounts Stored on a Competitor’s Database and Attempted to Sell Oilpro.com to the Same Company Whose Database He Had Hacked.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Grand Jury Says Brandon Kenon Rogers Defrauded Treasury of Nearly $150,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - John Mac Sells, 53, of St. Peters, Missouri, was sentenced today to 41months in prison and ordered to pay $667,201.85 in restitution.
