News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of DARRIS JAY KINGBIRD, 33, to 15 months in prison for assault with intent to commit a felony offense. KINGBIRD, who was indicted on Jan. 25, 2017, pleaded guilty on May 31, 2017, before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president and secretary of a Cherry Hill, New Jersey, machine shop today admitted paying kickbacks in return for subcontract work from a Philadelphia company that manufactured military parts for the U.S. Navy, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Jeremy Michael Matthews, 27, of Azle, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 210 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in May 2017 to one count of distribution of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of DARRIS JAY KINGBIRD, 33, to 15 months in prison for assault with intent to commit a felony offense. KINGBIRD, who was indicted on Jan. 25, 2017, pleaded guilty on May 31, 2017, before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Philadelphia - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging two Philadelphia-area political consultants with conspiracy, causing unlawful campaign contributions, causing the filing of false reports to the Federal Election Commission, causing false statements to the Federal Election Commission and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Frank D. Dolce, the owner of a local food service business, was sentenced to 23 months of incarceration for stealing nearly one million dollars from the National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Randl Arthur Roth, 49, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the former owner of Murfreesboro-based Nashville Motor Cars Premier car dealership, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., to 24 months in federal prison for defrauding his dealership’s customers and business partners of more than $550,000, announced U.S. Attorney Donald Q. Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.-In keeping with the administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management High Desert District is seeking public comments on the environmental assessment for the Second Quarter 2018 Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale parcel offering.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In response to the recent announcement that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will no longer publish its longstanding annual report on the number of approved but unused oil and gas drilling permits on public land - a key indicator that contradicts industry claims of being unable...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Leavenworth woman who owned businesses in the Kansas City area pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A disbarred Massachusetts attorney was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding mortgage companies in connection with multiple mortgages she obtained on a single residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Shreveport woman was sentenced to 120 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WATERTOWN, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and more than 100 community coalition members are meeting in Watertown today to unite in their fight against substance abuse and its devastation on individuals, their families and their communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two California men have been sentenced to multi-year federal prison terms after being convicted of federal wire fraud charges for participating in a “high-yield prime bank" scam that stole more than $5 million from victims across the nation who were promised huge returns on investments, purportedly with little or no risk.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) determination that the U.S. Forest Service’s 2016 Amendment to the Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP Amendment) is a “rule" and therefore subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Murkowski asked GAO to determine whether the TLMP Amendment met the definition of a “rule" earlier this year, and GAO announced yesterday that it does.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Crawfordsville, Ind., man, Nehemiah Lafoe, 23, appeared in federal court today in Urbana for arraignment on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Lafoe appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long who scheduled trial for Dec. 12, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) has awarded its prime cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) more than $14 million, or roughly 92 percent, of the available fee for fiscal year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 24, 2017, Brandon Douglas Shanahan, 23, of Sweetwater, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 30 months in federal prison for extortion using the computer application SnapChat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have enticed 14 to 17 year old boys to send him sexually explicit images.
