News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former Harrisburg Police official pleaded guilty in federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to charges of conversion of government property and theft from programs receiving government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 34-year-old Lumberton, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARYSE LIBURDI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 49 months in prison for her scheme to defraud investors in a technology company founded and operated by LIBURDI out of more than $7 million. LIBURDI was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote, before whom she previously pled guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ- Tonto National Monument was selected to receive a 2017 field trip grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. Tonto National Monument will bring fourth grade students from six elementary schools to the monument for a curriculum-based field trip.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Editor’s Note: this news release has been corrected as follows: In the second paragraph, last sentence, the original news release had the wrong dates. The sentence now reads, “The National Park Service solicited proposals for this business opportunity from May 4, 2017 through July 19, 2017.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tennessee, yesterday, returned an indictment charging two Murfreesboro men, Charles Dwight Stout, III, 19, and Thomas Avery Gibbs, 18, with conspiring to commit a civil rights violation and committing a civil rights violation through damaging and defacing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carl Junction, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Price: We are alarmed by reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS" or “Department") has barred its 10 Regional Offices from appearing at Marketplace Open Enrollment events less than five weeks before the sign-up season begins.[1] The Department has a responsibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Springfield, Virginia man was sentenced today to a total of 13 years in prison for interstate stalking, interstate domestic violence, and being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Glendale City Attorney’s Office has been charged with embezzling $609,764 she illegally obtained by creating documents to make it appear the money was being used to pay civil claims against the city.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Join the National Park Service (NPS) throughout October for the Herbert Johnson Lecture Series. All talks are held on Sundays at 2 pm at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. These programs are presented by participating scholars of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, a partnership between New York City, the National Park Service, and a consortium of nine research institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that ROBERT KEHAYIAS, 58, of Old Saybrook, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Guadencio Morgado-Martinez, age 32, of Myrtle Beach, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Illegal Re-Entry into the United States, a violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a). United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA- The Federal Human Trafficking Task Force for the Southern District of Georgia (“Task Force"), led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, announces its recent and on-going efforts to combat human trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York arrested 45 individuals during a nationwide operation that concluded Sept. 27. Operation ‘Safe City’ focused on cities and regions where ICE deportation officers are denied access to jails and prisons to interview suspected immigration violators or jurisdictions where ICE detainers are not honored.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Joshua Michael Furbeck Sentenced to Serve 42 Months in Prison on Two Felony Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) - Wesley Eugene Parker, 25, of Fernandina Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Abington man was arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston with robbing three Boston-area banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Gennaro Mattiaccio, 55, of Stafford was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for his fraudulent receipt of disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and making false statements to the SSA.
