News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal grand jury returned a 24-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Landon Blake Pilkey, age 33, of Leeds, Utah, with what the indictment alleges was a scheme to defraud the IRS. Money obtained through the alleged fraud scheme was transferred to other co-conspirators in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - “There’s a tractor trailer on the Parkway," reported the caller to the Parkway Dispatcher. “It’s heading north from Highway 82." This was the eighth call of the day on illegal trucks traveling the Parkway, but this time rangers could not respond because they were busy with a motor vehicle collision. The dispatcher thanked the caller and hoped a ranger would get free to catch the truck before it exited the Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit odometer tampering and securities fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), is today calling for information related to repeated claims that an ‘informant’ has provided the Committee’s Republican majority with evidence of a conspiracy involving a ‘secret society’ at the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -The owner of a New Jersey trucking company was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for committing tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud while operating his wine delivery business, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - SunCoke Energy Inc., its subsidiary Indiana Harbor Coke Company (IHCC), and Cokenergy have agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations relating to excess emissions of coke oven gases from their coke plant in East Chicago, Indiana, announced the Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General, and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that four graduate students were each awarded $11,750 for their research pertaining to novel membrane technologies in an effort to conserve water and protect water quality through the widespread application of membrane technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL BALDWIN, 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to one day of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm. Judge Bryant also ordered BALDWIN to perform 120 hours of community service while on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Eagle Lake Field Office is accepting public input on management needs and projects that would benefit off-highway vehicle recreation on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Tampering with a Victim by Threat was sentenced on Jan. 19, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Colette Arne, 67, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of oxymorphone, a Schedule II controlled substance, was sentenced to two years supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Donald Hennings, 32, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of 10 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl and furanyl fentanyl, and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed an amended complaint to forfeit an additional $500,000, for an aggregate amount of $4,583,935, from Dandong Chengtai Trading Co. Ltd. also known as Dandong Zhicheng Metallic Material Co., Ltd, and its owner Chi Yupeng, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Jeffrey S. Sallet, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Fredericksburg man today on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Marcus Buckley, 46, of Weatherford, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two years in prison and ordered to pay over $1.58 million in restitution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Guy Bell, 29, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: The U.S Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) has completed repairs at the LM Grand Junction, Colorado, regional airport gamma-ray spectrometer calibration facility. The facility consists of five concrete pads containing known amounts of naturally occurring radioactive materials and were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging a Shreveport businessman with scamming more than $96 million from investors and financial institutions.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: A site manager from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) gave a presentation to the Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board (NSSAB) in Beatty, Nevada, on Jan. 17, 2018. The NSSAB comprises community leaders who are delegated public oversight and liaison functions in the local community surrounding the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), also known as the former Nevada Test Site, and the Tonopah Test Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Two Men Convicted of Engaging in Child Exploitation Conspiracy.
