News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is seeking volunteer musical acts interested in performing at the 18th annual Spring Planting and Music Festival scheduled for Saturday, April 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew today sentenced Brandon Clint Russell (22, Tampa) to five years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered destructive device and for unlawful storage of explosive material. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 27, 2017.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman for a bipartisan briefing. After the meeting, Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On January 8, 2018, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Peter Alan Lundberg, 60, of St. Ann, Missouri, to 180 months in prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Lundberg was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Media Contacts: Leni Fortson, 215-861-5102, uddyback-fortson.lenore@dol.gov. Joanna Hawkins, 215-861-5101, hawkins.joanna@dol.gov. Release Number: 18-4-NEW (osha 18-01). -------------------------------. U.S. Department of Labor news materials are accessible at
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, LAMONT DEVORE HAIRSTON, 30, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, was sentenced to serve 41 months in federal prison and 5 years of supervised release following his prior guilty plea to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud. HAIRSTON was also ordered to make restitution to victims.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In late December, EM published its 2017 Year in Review, outlining cleanup achievements across the DOE complex throughout the calendar year. The publication highlights major accomplishments at each EM site and at EM headquarters, from the resumption of waste emplacement at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to the completion of cleanup activities at Hanford ’s 618-10 burial ground. Learn more about the Year in Review here and access it directly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: A Broward resident was sentenced to 24 months and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $87,562 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Tuesday that United States District Court Judge James M. Moody Jr., sentenced Dorothy Harper, 52, of England, to prison for her role in a multi-million dollar scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lynnsi Dunbar, 30, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay $287,945 in restitution for conspiring to defraud Bakersfield Pipe and Supply Inc. (BPS), U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced Paul Daniel (Dan) Smith as a new Deputy Director of the National Park Service (NPS). Smith brings nearly four decades of public service experience, including serving as superintendent of Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia, to this important leadership role.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Four Peruvian citizens were indicted for their alleged involvement in a multi-billion dollar, international gold money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On January 8, 2018, Nikolai Monastyrski, age 37, of Folsom, California, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 57 months in prison for mail and wire fraud involving unemployment benefits falsely obtained from Iowa Workforce Development announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kristin M. Kitchen, also known as Kristin M. Vargas, age 33, of Clifton Park, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring with others to sell stolen Social Security Numbers (SSNs) over the internet and to providing a false SSN on a loan application.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Mexican man was indicted by a grand jury today for illegal reentry to the United States, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 8, 2018, Sergio Charley, 37, of Tonalea, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 46 months in prison followed by a term of 3 years of supervised release. Charley had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today joined Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; Ranking Members Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee, Bennie Thompson of the Homeland Security Committee, and Jerrold Nadler of the Judiciary Committee;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Bank Robbery Press Release for 1/5/18 and 9/25/17.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 676, authored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), which supports the people of Iran engaged in legitimate and peaceful protests, condemns the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses and urges the administration to use targeted sanctions to respond to the regime’s ongoing human rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeremy Howard, 31, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison for possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and violating the terms of his supervised release. Howard pleaded guilty to these charges on Oct. 25, 2017.
