News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Trafford, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant Arrested for Transporting Illegal Aliens; Aliens Have Already Pled Guilty to Unlawful Reentry into United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former executive vice president of State Street Corporation was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with engaging in a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients through secret commissions applied to billions of dollars of securities trades.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces today the deregulation of Texas A&M’s cotton variety genetically engineered to have ultra-low levels of gossypol in its seed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Clearfield County resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of theft of mail matter, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Robert Shepherd III, 42, of Philadelphia, PA, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Shepherd was the final defendant to be convicted in “Operation French Connection," an FBI investigation that led...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER GALBRAITH KELLY JR., a former executive at Competitive Power Ventures (“CPV"), was sentenced to 14 months in prison for defrauding CPV by misrepresenting that the former Executive Deputy Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District James C. Dever III sentenced STEVEN WILLIAM NOWELL, a/k/a “Shoota," 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 180 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Federal authorities this morning arrested eight defendants named in a grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to send methamphetamine to Hawaii, including nearly 12 kilograms of narcotics made to look like decorative Aztec calendars and statues.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) safely finished energizing the Analytical Laboratory at Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently, making it the first of the plant’s four major nuclear facilities to complete this important step toward startup of the Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) vitrification approach for treating low-activity tank waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jamie Betances, a/k/a “Booger," “Booga," Buga," “Ice," 30, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CYNTHIA HOLDER, a former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB") Inspections Leader and KPMG Executive Director, pled guilty today to participating in a scheme to defraud the Securities and...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed fire in McKinley and Sandoval counties between Oct. 23 and Dec. 31, 2018, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sara Payge Gibson, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A La Quinta man with a criminal history going back nearly five decades has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for masterminding a series of fraud schemes that cost victims nearly $2 million.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The National Safety Council recognized two safety managers with DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management cleanup contractor as 2018 Rising Stars of Safety, a prestigious award given to only 38 recipients globally this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the Grape Street Crips gang was indicted today on additional charges in connection with the murder of a bystander at a summer cookout in 2010, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investing $40.9 million in infrastructure for Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro, NC. The Agency is building a new, 180-foot-tall Air Traffic Control Tower.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal authorities this morning arrested eight defendants named in a grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to send methamphetamine to Hawaii, including nearly 12 kilograms of narcotics made to look like decorative Aztec calendars and statues.
