News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JAMES LEE WARD, JR., of Luther, was sentenced today to 34 months in federal prison for making a forged security and filing a false tax return in connection with his embezzlement of more than $250,000 from a metro real estate company, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport (ROA) prevented a man from bringing a loaded 9 mm handgun onto an airplane on Wednesday (September 6).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Daniel Lee Vadnais, age 53, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 25, 2017, to Receipt of Child Pornography. Chief United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former executive director of the Ocean City, New Jersey, Housing Authority (OCHA) was sentenced today to three years of probation for embezzling federal funds received by authority from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has appointed Mark H. Wildasin to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, following the retirement of Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition seeking innovative, interactive, and user-driven ways to display data that supports management of the Colorado River Basin. Visualizations improve data exploration, analysis, interpretation, and communication.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - September 7, 2017 - George Ivory aka GI, 27, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced today to 25 years in prison, for being a felon in possession of ammunition and other federal drug and firearm offenses, as a result of shooting 62 year-old Cecil Grissette on May 1, 2015, announced Mark ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana J. Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing entitled The Children's Health Insurance Program: the Path Forward...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) reacted to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) work to modernize the Nation’s aviation infrastructure and air traffic control (ATC) system is on budget and that ATC privatization may jeopardize modernization efforts.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - On Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office is celebrating the 2017 Great Sierra River Cleanup and the 24th anniversary of National Public Lands Day.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration is staging approximately 250 personnel at southeast airports to be deployed to Florida for assistance with airport security after Hurricane Irma moves through the region. These TSA employees have volunteered to assist with Florida airport security operations upon reopening, knowing that their colleagues who reside in the hurricane’s path will be dealing with the aftermath of the storm.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s August 2017 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FREDERICK FLOYD, D.O., age 58, a physician who practiced and resided in New Orleans, pled guilty today to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with illegally dispensing controlled substances and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that a Connecticut substance abuse treatment provider and its former CEO will pay $627,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Anthony Martin Ish, 34, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today to life imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. A jury convicted Ish of second degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon on Feb. 14, 2017, following a one-week jury trial in Pocatello, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SUNYUP KIM, age 41, of Granada Hills, CA, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Lieutenant with the Quincy Police Department (QPD) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston after a jury found him guilty of collecting double pay in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EDUARDO TORRES-GUERRERO, age 24, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
