News published on Federal Newswire in October 2017

News from October 2017


News Release: DALLAS - Tommy Nelson, Jr., 52, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 105 months in federal prison for the robbery of Shinhan Bank located in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.


News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Sept. 19, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


Two Delano Residents Plead Guilty In Unemployment Insurance Scheme

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Raul Oropeza Lopez, 50, and Ana Maria Oropeza, 43, both of Delano, California, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


Broward Resident Charged in Social Security Theft Scheme

News Release: A Fort Lauderdale woman was charged this morning in federal court with stealing social security benefits for over a decade.


U.S. Attorney’s Office and V.I. Attorney General’s Office Establish Task Force to Combat Disaster Fraud and Urge Public to Report Suspected Fraud

News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announces the formation of a task force comprised of local and federal agencies to combat illegal activity related to Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Acting U.S. Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett urges residents and businesses to immediately report suspected fraudulent...


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports of significant causalities in a Las Vegas shooting...


News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - ROBERT SHANE APGAR, 34, of Oklahoma City, has pled guilty to falsely and maliciously reporting that his estranged ex-wife intended to blow up the Grady County Courthouse, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Apgar has also entered a guilty plea to sending child pornography.


News Release: A woman who admitted buying multiple firearms for others, and lying on the acquisition forms, was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.


News Release: The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application period for innovators to join the fourth cohort of the Cyclotron Road program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Cyclotron Road, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds top technical talent with new ideas within Berkeley Lab as entrepreneurial researchers to address fundamental energy and manufacturing challenges identified by industry.


Federal Jury Convicts Navajo Man from Gallup on First-Degree Murder and Witness Tampering Charges

News Release: Defendant, Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative, Faces Sentence of Mandatory Life Imprisonment.


News Release: A woman who admitted buying multiple firearms for others, and lying on the acquisition forms, was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.


Former Easton Resident Pleads Guilty to Possessing Meth and Xanax

News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that CAVAN DEVINE, 25, formerly of Easton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of possession of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and a quantity of Xanax.


News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 20 months in prison, three years’ supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to First National Bank in the amount of $270,434.70, on her conviction of misapplication of funds by a bank employee, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.


News Release: Following the tragic shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, that has taken the lives of 58 people and injured more than 500, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan calling for him to remove H.R. 3668, the so-called “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act ," from the House calendar indefinitely.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged the owner of a Decatur compounding pharmacy with conspiracy to defraud a federal health insurance program out of more than $10 million. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigation, Miami Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Justin Green and Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin announced the charge.


BLM Eastern States to hold Online Oil and Gas Lease Sale December 14

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) will hold its quarterly online oil and gas lease sale Dec. 14, 2017. The sale will include seven parcels totaling 1,184.76 acres located in the states of Ohio and Louisiana.


Vancouver, Washington, Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Assisting in Filing False Tax Documents

News Release: Defendant Falsified Deductions and Credits so She Could Claim a Share of Larger Tax Refund.


Two Former Directors of Rosebud Tribal Ranch Appear in Federal Court on Embezzlement Charges

News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two former directors of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Tribal Ranch appeared in federal court on Sept. 26, 2017, in Pierre, South Dakota, with one defendant pleading guilty at his initial appearance. Patricia Elaine Jones and Stormy Halligan, both former directors of the Rosebud Tribal Ranch, were separately charged with Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.


Equifax Provides New Info on Breach

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy after Equifax representatives briefed Oversight Committee staff on new information regarding the actions of its top officials relating to the massive data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers.


Bureau of Reclamation Releases Public-Private Partnerships Request for Information Summary

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a summary of comments received regarding potential public-private partnerships (P3).