News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Hampton man with making multiple bomb threats in Hampton and Newport News in an effort to divert authorities away from his armed robbery of the Virginia Educators Credit Union (VECU).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - These canines may look cute, but their recent trip to the Hanford Site was all business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Brooks Ketterman, of Hambleton, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Michael Jon Kell, was sentenced to federal prison after a two-decade scheme to funnel millions of dollars in assets through a church he created to evade filing federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service is offering an opportunity to community members to collect wood rounds piled in a pre-designated area with value as firewood or for other uses. A limited number of households (approximately 15) who reside within a 50-mile drive of Otter Creek, Maine will...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill issued the following statement regarding National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is ongoing for the month of October...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Three Elkins, West Virginia residents were indicted today by a federal grand jury on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a former manager at Equifax, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to insider trading. Bonthu bought and sold Equifax stock options before Equifax’s data breach was publicly announced, while working as a member of the team assembled to respond to the company’s massive data breach in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Due to subsiding fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management is removing the Stage 1 fire restrictions for Platte County on Oct. 16, 2018. This decision was reached in coordination with our county partners. Partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands managed by the BLM.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that JASON RHODES was arrested this morning on conspiracy, securities...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - LeCharles Edward Baldon Sr. was sentenced Monday to 184 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine and heroin in the Reno area, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI Las Vegas Division, and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel W. Neill for the DEA Las Vegas office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is planning to burn piles of juniper and piñon cuttings in three locations in Catron County from Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 2018, weather permitting. In addition, debris from the creation of defensible space in the Wild Horse Subdivision will be burned. The Wild Horse Slash Pit is located 40 miles south of Grants, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLEN DAVIS, 37, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking three teenage girls, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A LaSalle County physician was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for illegally dispensing prescription medications, including opioids, in exchange for cash or sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A LaSalle County physician was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for illegally dispensing prescription medications, including opioids, in exchange for cash or sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLEN DAVIS, 37, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking three teenage girls, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - EM gave its decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) contractor at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio a “good" evaluation and awarded $24.3 million, or 74 percent, of the fee available for its performance from March 2016 through September 2017.
