News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced William Lee (38, Lehigh Acres) to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his cellphone, which was used to commit the offense.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park is re-opening after Hurricane Irma. The Dante Fascell Visitor Center will open at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. Convoy Point grounds will open at 7:00 a.m. the same day. Park islands including Boca Chita, Elliott and Adams Keys are open.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following remarks during the nomination hearing for Kenneth Ian Juster to serve as U.S. ambassador to India.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay $1,883,883 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment against Brendt A. Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill., that charges him with the kidnapping resulting in death of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang on June 9, 2017. In addition, the indictment charges Christensen with two counts of making false statements to FBI agents in June 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cruz Abeita, 27, of Algodones, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to conspiracy and violating the Hobbs Act. The charges arise out of the Dec. 30, 2016, robbery of the Dancing Eagle Travel Center in Cibola County, N.M. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Abeita will be sentenced within the range of 84 to 120 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing on reforming the international code. The goal of the hearing is to examine how Congress can update the United States’ system of taxing cross-border income to level the playing field for American companies and keep more jobs and investment here at home.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama today charged a licensed Alabama deer breeder and his associate for illegally transporting captive-bred and raised whitetail deer from a facility in Indiana to his deer breeder facility in Alabama. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Alabama’s Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division Chief of Enforcement Michael Weathers announced the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the leader of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAWAN FORTIA, a/k/a “Tittie" and “Wine," age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act “RICO" as well as drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy, and murder charges. U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced FORTIA to serve life in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stacey Plaskett from the U.S. Virgin Islands who also serves as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment, issued statements after...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man who styled himself on the internet as rapper C-Los El Gran was sentenced Tuesday to 168 months in federal prison for his role in a $4 million drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that TIM NALL, age 62, of New Orleans, was charged yesterday in a one-count Bill of Information with receipt of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the leader of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement applauding a new website, Oversight.gov, launched yesterday by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE):
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Steubenville, Ohio man was indicted by a federal grand jury of unlawful possession on a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: A former Municipal Court Senior Judge pleaded guilty to a criminal information unsealed yesterday charging him with causing false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in connection with a 2012 congressional primary election. Acting U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department recently awarded nearly $2 million in grants to the Northern District of Ohio to help combat the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the following.
