News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Rockford for the robberies of two Rockford banks.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park received 4,437,214 visitors in 2017. This was down slightly, 1.8 percent, from the park’s highest annual visitation in 2016, which was 4,517,584 visitors. This continues to represent a 40 percent increase in visitation since 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Segundo Francisco Caguana, a citizen of Ecuador, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with harboring aliens, encouraging illegal aliens to reside in the United States, and hiring or recruiting unauthorized aliens for employment. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Jan. 24, 2018 - USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) today announced its first ever mobile application, putting critical information at the fingertips of food service professionals and making it easier for them to serve wholesome, nutritious, and tasty meals through FNS’s child nutrition programs.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Chocolate, favored beverage of priests across the Spanish empire in mission times, will be celebrated at the ruins of the mission church at Tumacácori National Historical Park between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 27th.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management, Big Horn County Weed and Pest, Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation recently completed ten years of cheatgrass treatments in the Devil’s Canyon area east of Lovell. Partnerships like this are an essential component of the BLM’s mission to practice shared conservation stewardship on public land.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - Peter Zuccarelli, 62, of Plano, Texas was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle and illegally export from the U.S. in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), radiation hardened integrated circuits (RHICs) for use in the space programs of China and Russia. Zuccarelli was also sentenced to three years supervised release and a $50,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: CHALLIS, Idaho - The Idaho Bureau of Land Management invites the public to submit comments as part of a statewide hearing regarding motor vehicle and helicopter use in wild horse management operations; in particular, aerial census flights. The hearing has been rescheduled to take place Feb. 6, from 1-2 p.m.at:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the sentence of a Louisville convicted felon, in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to 110 months in prison, followed by a three year period of supervised release, for threatening to kill a Louisville Metro Police Officer while engaged in the performance of his official duties, and for several firearms violations. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Marlboro, New Jersey, man was charged today for his role in a conspiracy to falsely bill public and private insurance providers for medications that were never dispensed to patients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Shelby County, Tennessee, resident was sentenced to 12 months in prison today for evading payment of taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Luis Enrique Moran-Vargaz, 37, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Joseph Banco, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: On Saturday, Feb. 17, educators, naturalists, scout leaders, and other youth leaders are invited to try their hand at a wide variety of activities they can use to teach about the environment during a Project Learning Tree Workshop at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Headquarters.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join staff and local expert Barbara Plampin for a morning of botany on five consecutive Saturdays, February 10 through March 10, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Bailly Ranger Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gregory Jerome Brown, 28, of Bountiful, Utah, pleaded guilty today to robbing three banks, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joshua Brackett, age 33, of Gansevoort, New York, was ordered detained on Monday following his January 19 arrest on charges of distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - United States Attorney David J. Freed for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Geoffrey S. Walsh, a former vice president of the Bank of Oswego, to 30 months in federal prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Walsh had previously pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to make false entries in bank records, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and wire fraud on July 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced that $1,542,442.33 will be distributed to Appalachian State University (ASU) following successful civil forfeiture proceedings against money seized from bank accounts controlled by alleged fraudsters and money launderers who targeted the higher education institution.
