News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: FBI Offers $1,000 Reward in New Mexico Bank & Trust Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today a federal grand jury charged WESTON SLATER, 25, of Yukon, with concealing a federal crime and making a false statement to federal investigators, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted separately by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Duck Brook Bridge will be closed to all travel on Tuesday Sept. 26, from 6-8 am. Access to the Witch Hole Pond area carriage roads will still be available from Hulls Cove Visitor Center and the Eagle Lake parking lots. The closure is from carriage road intersection #5 to Duck Brook Road, roughly 200 feet in length.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson, who serves as the Acting Executive Director of the National Center for Disaster Fraud, announced today that a federal grand jury for the Middle District of Louisiana has charged a Louisiana woman with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for allegedly attempting to obtain over $150,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds in relation to the 2016 Baton Rouge flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Juan Martinez, a/k/a “KJ," was sentenced today by United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to a term of 30 years in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy and in the murder of 16-year-old Ka’Shawn Phillips on September 5, 2005. Martinez was a member of the Yonkers faction of the violent Trinitarios (the “Trinitarios Gang").
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Joseph J. Erves, MARTA’s former Senior Director of Operations, has pleaded guilty in federal court to orchestrating a false invoice scheme that resulted in MARTA paying more than $500,000 for maintenance work that was never performed and for funneling most of the money back into his personal bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Matthew Feehan, 30, of Gray, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby, to 15 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Citrus Heights Bank Robber.
By State Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO Clay Ross, 55, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 132 months in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images of minors, followed by 10 years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Ross to pay a $5,100 special assessment. Ross pleaded guilty to the crime on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jordan Ali, 37, of Arizona, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, as well as a separate charge of money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to 108 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: The Senate Finance Committee, which has the largest committee jurisdiction in either chamber of Congress, oversees more than 50 percent of the federal budget and has jurisdiction over tax, trade and healthcare policy. Since U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) became the top Republican on the committee,...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Sept. 20, 2017, Roger Arthur Beu, Jr., 57, of Harriman, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 41 months in prison for his role in preparing and submitting fraudulent federal tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senior Congressional Democratic leaders sent a letter to the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) today requesting an investigation into reports that Secretary Tom Price has been using taxpayer funds to book private jets to accommodate his travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A federal jury has convicted a physician assistant who worked at a Fountain Valley medical clinic on federal drug trafficking charges for writing prescriptions for dangerous and addictive narcotics without a medical purpose. The case is the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Fountain Valley Police Department and the California Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dennis Boyle, 53, of Davis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to seven years in prison for distributing child pornography and obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man who lived in the same apartment where his girlfriend operated a daycare business was indicted by a federal grand jury today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Colorado man already serving time for a bank robbery in Arkansas was indicted here Wednesday on charges he robbed a bank in Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
