News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Elko, Nev.- The Eastern Nevada Agency (ENA) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is accepting applications through April 1 for on-call wildland firefighters for the upcoming fire season.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader announced today that the Western District of Wisconsin collected $39,852,608 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $36,880,504 was collected in criminal actions and $2,972,104 was collected in civil actions.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the President’s national emergency declaration...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Laurinburg man who sold firearms and cocaine was sentenced to federal prison today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Boca Raton attorney was sentenced today to 84 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution of $19.7 million to 2,156 investors, after previously being convicted by a federal jury of 33 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering offenses. This case involved a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Algona Man Who Was Also a Housing Inspector Failed to Thoroughly Inspect for Asbestos Before Beginning a Renovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Montana Barronette, a/k/a Tana, and Tanner, age 23, of Baltimore, to life in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go (TTG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - John Overby, 49, of Brandon, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 60 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Overby was also ordered to pay a $1,500.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to nearly six years in prison for attempted robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises, Distribution to Persons Under Age Twenty-One, Possession With Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - On Dec. 17, 2018, Gary Wedel, a dealer buying and selling livestock on commission subject to the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act, entered into a Consent Decree with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma on Feb. 7, 2019. The Consent Decree permanently enjoins Gary...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Dallas Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Exploiting Minor He Met While Playing “Clash Of Clans".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Thomas Woodard, 38, was sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska, by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for the crime of armed bank robbery. Judge Rossiter sentenced Woodard to 100 months’ imprisonment, a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered Woodard to make restitution in the amount of $27,278 to the SAC Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced today that the District of Vermont collected $3,743,362.58 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $704,388.04 was collected in criminal actions and $3,038,974.54 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Returned to United States after Being Deported Four Times.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Eight House Committee leaders sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings that were affected by the government shutdown earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning man who admitted providing a minor methamphetamine in exchange for sexual favors was sentenced on Feb. 14 to 51 months in prison and six years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Nebraska man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography in 2016, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Kelly of the District of Nebraska.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced a proposed plan for managing the Sutey Ranch in Garfield County. The BLM acquired the 557-acre ranch in March 2017, as well as the 112-acre Haines Parcel in Pitkin County, through the Sutey Ranch Land Exchange, in order to increase access to public lands.
