News published on Federal Newswire in February 2018

News from February 2018


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Each year, EM Richland Operations Office contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) performs a disaster recovery exercise to test backup measures in the event essential data center applications unexpectedly shut down or quit working.


News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - The 8th annual Vintage Everglades Day will bring alive the past on Saturday, March 3, at Everglades National Park! This year’s celebration will highlight how the Everglades’ rich history has been told through art, music, and literature.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A retail director for a local candy company today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of over $2 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.


News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa. has been sentenced today in federal court to 84 months in prison, followed by 10 years’ supervised release, and was ordered to register as a convicted sex offender within three days of this sentence, on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


FBI Announces an Arrest in Connection with the Murder of Isabella Hellman

News Release: FBI Announces an Arrest in Connection with the Murder of Isabella Hellman.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David Washington, age 43, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 14, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.


News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Gatton Academy of Bowling Green won the 10th Annual DOE West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl on Friday, Feb. 16.


News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Fort Worth returned a superseding indictment this week, charging a North Texas man with seven counts related to a terrorism investigation,


Owner of Basketball Academy Pleads Guilty to Visa Fraud

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Michael A. Rawson, age 48, of the United Kingdom, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to commit visa fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. Senior United States District Judge...


Wellford Woman Sentenced for Forging Prescriptions

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Felicia L. Prysock, age 41, of Wellford, South Carolina, was sentenced to 24 months and one day in prison for Aggravated Identity Theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 1028A; and Obtaining a Controlled Substance...


Local Man Convicted of Armed Drug Trafficking of Synthetic Narcotics

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 34-year-old Corpus Christi resident has admitted he possessed with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids and a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


News Release: Chief Executive Officer of Armored Vehicle Company Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison for Role in Scheme to Defraud the United States.


Nashville Man Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison For Federal Firearms Violation

News Release: Defendant Fired Several Rounds At A Vehicle Occupied With Children.


News Release: GREAT FALLS - Jonathan Paul Schulz, a 48-year-old resident of Conrad, Montana, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris handed down the sentence.


News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A second defendant has been convicted for robbing the Prosperity Bank in Yoakum, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


Hazleton Man Indicted On Drug Trafficking Charges

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kevin Charles Brown, age 38, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza today announced that DARRIN LAMORE, 47, of Enfield, has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with stealing government funds from the Enfield Community Development Corporation.


News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and Lassen Land and Trails Trust will ask for public comments on off-highway-vehicle recreation needs in a public workshop to be held Thursday, Feb. 22, at 5 p.m., at the historic Susanville Railroad Depot, 601 Richmond Rd., in Susanville.


Idaho Site Creates Dual Purpose for Newly Constructed Waste Retrieval Facility

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Construction of the final Accelerated Retrieval Project (ARP) structure at EM’s Idaho Site is complete. But before crews begin exhuming the final 0.69 acres of buried transuranic (TRU) waste within its walls, the facility will be used to treat a challenging waste form.


Oversight Dems Press Equifax to Provide  At Least Three Years of Identity Theft Protection

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all of the Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, sent a letter pressing Equifax to provide at least three years of credit protection and identity theft services to the millions of consumers impacted by the company’s massive data breach last year.