News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced WADE BARBAY, age 55, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve twenty-nine (29) months in federal prison as a result of his scheme to defraud his employer. BARBAY...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways will be conducting a managed deer hunt for Wounded Warriors the first weekend of November at Big Spring. Portions of the Big Spring area will be temporarily closed to the public from Friday, Nov. 3, until the morning of Monday, November 6, to help ensure...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant admits responsibility for his role in murder of innocent bystander in Chelsea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: A Westlake man was indicted in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the Cleveland Clinic out of at least $2.8 million, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last night during debate on the Senate Republicans' budget resolution, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led the charge to defeat a dangerous amendment that sought to remove protections for endangered species. Specifically, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Justin Vazquez, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted by a federal jury of damaging government property, was sentenced to 10 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark Field Office arrested 36 individuals during a five-day operation that concluded Friday, as part of the agency’s ongoing public safety efforts. The operation targeted criminal aliens who were...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Mexico Prosecuted Tom Begaye, Jr., Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi sentenced Lorraine Yamauchi, age 70, and Jiitsu Yamauchi, age 63, of Honolulu, each to 24 months in prison yesterday for filing a false tax return in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1). The Yamauchis pled guilty to the offense on June 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that on Oct. 18, 2017 in federal court, GENESIS LEE WHITTED, JR., a 28-year-old male resident of Fayetteville, was convicted following a three-day trial before Senior United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Eric L. Eiskant, 33, of Swansea, was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 33 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: With new stories about cyber threats frequently making headlines, cybersecurity has never been as present in the minds of Americans as it is today. Fortunately, the U.S. energy sector has been working to prepare for and respond to the cybersecurity threat for years to ensure a secure and reliable energy system across the Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces today that Total Lab Care, LLC, a toxicology laboratory based in Jacksonville, Florida, has agreed to pay the government $212,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. In addition, the company agreed not to participate in any federal healthcare programs in the future.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - Teaters Road, which runs from Highway 380 north to the Bureau of Land Management North Fork Crooked River area and the Ochoco National Forest, is temporarily open while Waibel Ranches, LLC. completes construction on a new public access road nearby. Teaters Road had remained closed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months imprisonment followed by 4 years supervised release on his convictions of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: David Hamilton Soderbom, 49, of Lebanon, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to five violations of federal child pornography laws; specifically three counts of production of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, announced Donald Q. Cochran, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced WADE BARBAY, age 55, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve twenty-nine (29) months in federal prison as a result of his scheme to defraud his employer. BARBAY...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Company Improperly Received More Than $1.1 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $20 million in funding for projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER). MEITNER projects seek to identify ...
