News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger today sentenced Wesley Eugene Parker (25, Fernandina Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - The DEA 360 “Power of You" event will be held on October 16th, 2017, at the Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University, in Fairborn, Ohio. Register to attend at Eventbrite.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Brian Ray McClure, 55, an inmate of the Idaho Department of Corrections, was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in federal prison for mailing threatening communications to a Washington state judge, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered that the federal sentence begin if McClure is granted parole by the Idaho Commission on Pardons and Parole or on March 1, 2019, whichever is earlier.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - AnMed Health, a South Carolina hospital based in Anderson, South Carolina, has agreed to pay over $7 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false Medicare claims. The settlement announced today resolves allegations that AnMed Health knowingly disregarded...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal prosecutor was sworn in as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney on Sept. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: A White Lake Township woman was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison on charges of producing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 28-year-old Mount Pleasant, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Michael J. Baxter, 49, of Grand Ridge, Florida, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Panama City after a federal grand jury returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging him with falsifying records and depriving an inmate of his constitutional rights. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant fled Canada to the U.S. on foot to avoid deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Terrance Dees, 34, of Mobile, was sentenced yesterday in federal court on a charge involving his illegal possession of two firearms. The indictment alleged and Dees admitted that he had three prior convictions...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: If you’re worried about carbon monoxide poisoning, you might purchase a detector for your home. But what if your house itself could sense carbon monoxide and other potentially harmful gases - nitrogen oxides, natural gas, formaldehyde - without the need for a separate device for each chemical?
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Suffolk man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to defraud the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Post-9/11 GI Bill educational assistance program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Gullinese, age 47, of Albany, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court for firing a shotgun during a carjacking in Euclid, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Investigation Exonerated Another Man Wrongly Sentenced to Life in State Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Christopher Allen Cain, age 52, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today for being in possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and being a previously convicted felon...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KWAME INSAIDOO, the former executive director of United Block Association (“UBA"), a New York-based non-profit organization, was sentenced to 48 months in prison and his wife ROXANNA INSAIDOO was sentenced...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Today, our nation faces serious national security challenges that grow more complicated by the day. We also know that we face serious challenges to public safety here at home from domestic extremist groups and independent actors, including white supremacists, sovereign citizens, Antifa, and others who...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Dr. Jean-Francois Geschwind, age 53, of Westport, Connecticut, to one year and one day in federal prison, followed by three years supervised released for four counts of mail fraud arising from a multi-year scheme to unlawfully obtain...
