News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rodney Kersten, 60, Minong, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Friday, December 7, by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 78 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Kersten pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 25, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for evaluating and selecting optimal antenna designs for future fifth-generation (5G) cellphones, other wireless devices and base stations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Indian national has been arrested on charges that he conspired to smuggle foreign nationals into the United States via commercial airline flights, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Northwest Arctic Heritage Center Reduces Building Hours.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) is planning to construct an accessible hunting blind and wildlife viewing platform on Bodie Island in Nags Head, NC. This project would include a small concrete parking area, interpretive signage, an approximate 260 foot long elevated boardwalk to a partially covered platform over an open pond within the federally authorized hunt area on Bodie Island.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: FLOWOOD, Miss. - In keeping with the “America First Energy Plan," the Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern States State Office held a competitive federal coal lease sale by sealed bid in its Southeastern States District Office on Nov. 29, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Keith Edward Taylor, age 33, of Kingsville, Maryland, today to 27 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release for production of child pornography. There is no parole in the federal system. Judge Chasanow also ordered that, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Joseph David Caltagirone (61, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device. Caltagirone faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Roger Lee Clem, II, aka “Woody," of Weston, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A 78-year-old Ford County, Ill., man, Toetim Cizmar, of Cabery, has been ordered to serve consecutive sentences that total 140 years in prison for sexual exploitation of multiple children. On Dec. 7, U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow ordered Cizmar to serve four consecutive 30-year sentences for sexual exploitation of a child followed by a 20-year sentence for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A professional drummer who has served as a musical director for the United Nations and the Arsenio Hall television show has been arrested on a felony wire fraud charge for allegedly embezzling $750,000 from a charity concert for homeless children and using the pilfered money to buy his ex-wife a house in Calabasas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former president of a Texas-based non-profit pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to conceal the fact that a 2013 Congressional trip to Azerbaijan was funded by the Azerbaijan government.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida -U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced David Gilbert (53, Merritt Island) to 14 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Gilbert had pleaded guilty on Sept. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Andre Stackhouse, 47, of Lexington, was sentenced Friday, to 190 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A 78-year-old Ford County, Ill., man, Toetim Cizmar, of Cabery, has been ordered to serve consecutive sentences that total 140 years in prison for sexual exploitation of multiple children. On Dec. 7, U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow ordered Cizmar to serve four consecutive 30-year sentences for sexual exploitation of a child followed by a 20-year sentence for possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-114-18, issued at 9:00am, which announced export sales of 1,645,920 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico. Of the total 1,104,900 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year and 541,020 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year. The correct announcement is as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a physician on fraud charges for allegedly approving medically unnecessary diagnostic tests that were billed to Medicare.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: POTOMAC, Md.- Entrance fees for the Great Falls area will increase effective Jan. 1, 2019. Also beginning Jan. 1, the National Park Service will reinstate a reciprocal agreement allowing visitors who purchase a pass at either Great Falls Park (Va.) or on the Maryland side of the Potomac River at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park to re-enter from the other side while their pass is valid.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Yarai Fuentes Quinones, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for his involvement with a gas station skimming fraud scheme, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 3008 (U.S. Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas), H.R. 5513 (U.S. Rep. Paul Cook, R-Calif.), H.R. 6108 (U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga.), H.R 6118 (U.S. Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C.), H.R. 6665 (U.S. Rep. Madeleine Bordallo, D-Guam), H. Res. 792 (U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y.), S. 245 (U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.) and S. 2511 (U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.). Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop issued the following statement.
