News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: A Fort Lauderdale woman was charged this morning in federal court with stealing social security benefits for over a decade.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant, Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative, Faces Sentence of Mandatory Life Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant Falsified Deductions and Credits so She Could Claim a Share of Larger Tax Refund.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
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.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a summary of comments received regarding potential public-private partnerships (P3).