News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: All are invited to the Calumet Visitor Center this Saturday, October 28 for live local music, coffee, tea and sweet treats! Between 12 noon and 5pm, local musicians will perform to help celebrate the park’s.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of H.R. 4092 the Agricultural Guestworker Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Dyer, age 33, of Rome, New York, was sentenced today to 10 months of weekend incarceration, as well as a 3-year term of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Michael D. Towner, 58, of Los Angeles, California, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with sixteen counts of wire fraud. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a California man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $6.6 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at Callaway County, Mo., businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, and Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Burlington residents Robert Perkins, Sheldon William Krogmeier, and Victor Lamont Tate for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 22-year-old Brownwood, Texas, man, Sebastian Contreras, who pleaded guilty in July 2017 to two counts of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced last week by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 168 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Contreras will begin serving his prison sentence on Dec. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Christopher Eberhardt, 34, of Ovid, NY, of distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Today, the Energy Department announced up to $15 million for research projects on batteries and vehicle electrification technologies to enable extreme fast charging. The Department's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) funds early-stage, high-risk research to generate knowledge upon which industry can develop and deploy innovative transportation energy technologies that improve efficiency, lower costs, and increase use of secure, domestic energy sources.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Removal of Fee Boxes at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Placentia man who participated in a scheme that filed fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service and sought over $800,000 in refunds based on non-existent employees at two shell companies has been sentenced to over five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Twenty-nine individuals have been sentenced for their respective roles in selling guns and drugs in Pompano Beach following a yearlong intensive investigation lead by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Broward Sheriff’s Office. Sentences imposed on the defendants ranged from one to 12 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2017 – Households impacted by recent wildfires in Northern California could be eligible for help buying food through USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Taking another step toward fulfilling President Trump’s goal of stamping out the brutal transnational criminal organization MS-13, Attorney General Jeff Sessions today formally designated the gang as a priority for the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (“OCDETF”).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced nearly $9 million in funding through the Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) to advance the practice of community policing in law enforcement and to provide critical training to help law enforcement officers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: The United States filed a civil complaint against Riddhi USA Inc. of Ronkonkoma, New York, and its owner and President Mohd M. Alam to prevent the distribution of adulterated and misbranded dietary supplements in violation of federal law, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: The former head of global foreign exchange cash trading at HSBC Bank plc, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (collectively HSBC), was found guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud an HSBC client through a multimillion-dollar scheme commonly referred to as “front running.” Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2017
News Release: Federal agents have arrested 17 members and associates of the Nine Trey Gangster Bloods criminal street gang on charges of RICO conspiracy and related charges stemming from an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia on Oct. 12, which was unsealed yesterday. A total of 30 gang members and associates were indicted.
