News published on Federal Newswire in September 2017

News from September 2017


News Release: Defendant Involved in the Sale of Over $1 Billion in Deutsche Bank Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities.


NIST Publishes 2016 Department of Commerce Laboratories Technology Transfer Report

News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ) has published the U.S. Commerce Department’s (DOC) 2016 Annual Report on Technology Transfer. The document provides an extensive view of the technology transfer activities of DOC’s three bureaus with research laboratories-NIST, ...


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kanento Boots, age 63, of Akwesasne, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced today to time served (111 days in jail) and 1 year of supervised release for illegally transporting an alien within the United States.


News Release: Watrous, NM: Fort Union National Monument invites you to join our annual First Fort and Arsenal Tours on Saturday Sept. 16, 2017. Travel down the Santa Fe Trail to the first Fort Union located in the heart of Jicarilla Apache country. The First Fort and Arsenal site are open to the public only once...


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 173 months in prison for robbing four banks in August and September 2016 and for violating his supervised release from a previous offense, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.


News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 90 months in federal prison for two commercial robberies, including one in which he fired a shot into the ceiling, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced Monday to 75 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


Schenectady Men Sentenced for Heroin and Crack Cocaine Conspiracy

News Release: Operated Drug House Next to Children’s Daycare Center.


News Release: California Internet Sales Company President Sentenced to Prison for Embezzlement and False Tax Returns.


ICE removes top Mexican drug trafficker

News Release: NEW YORK - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a top Mexican drug kingpin Sept. 1.


Sprague Fire Information: Sunday September 10

News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.


News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident was sentenced Monday to 60 months in prison for receipt of approximately 3,500 images and videos depicting child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.


McKean-FCI Inmate Admits Assault on Federal Officer

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A federal prisoner at McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of assaulting a federal officer, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.


News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Crystal Muentes, age 34, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on September 7, 2017, before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to a conspiracy to make false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer.


THIS WEEK: Hearing on Joint Employer Legislation

News Release: On Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 10 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions will hold a joint legislative hearing on H.R. 3441, the Save Local Business Act. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former owner of a restaurant in Lenexa was sentenced Monday for bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 103 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 75 of the 103 defendants charged as the result of this investigation have entered guilty pleas and 39 of them have been sentenced.


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Makyna Kancso, of Crawford, West Virginia, pled guilty today to an oxycodone distribution charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.


News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 90 months in federal prison for two commercial robberies, including one in which he fired a shot into the ceiling, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique in Chelsea, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy involving the attempted murder of a rival gang member.