News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, DESMA VALDEZ, 20, of Lincoln County, was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for second-degree murder in connection with a house fire in Indian Country, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Douglas Sibley, 38, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl. Senior United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Sibley to 120 months in the Bureau of Prisons to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation selected 82 projects to share $5.5 million in WaterSMART Small Scale Water Efficiency Grants. These grants will help local communities make water efficiency improvements such as installing flow measurement, automating a water delivery system, or lining a canal section to reduce seepage.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The San Luis Obispo County Jail violates the rights of prisoners by, among other things, failing to provide adequate medical care and subjecting some prisoners to excessive uses of force, according to a Justice Department report that calls upon the jail to make changes to address the constitutional violations found during an investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM is treating record-setting amounts of waste and dispositioning more decontaminated salt solution at the Savannah River Site (SRS), as the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) proves to be an aggressive workhorse for the site’s liquid waste mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- A federal grand jury in Charlottesville returned an indictment last week charging the former executive director of the Economic Development Authority of the Town of Front Royal and the County of Warren, Virginia [EDA] with wire fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Javier Jaquez, 50, of Albuquerque, was sentenced on Aug. 26 to 32 years in federal prison. On Sept. 18, 2020, Jaquez pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams and more of heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - In November 2017, two railroad workers at a railyard in Waycross, Georgia, encountered and reported a blue flag that signaled their train could not move safely. For their actions, CSX Transportation Inc. pulled them from the job and later fired them, both actions found to be illegal in a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan E. Heesch (619) 546-9442
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Veblen Flats, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Aug. 30, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond D. Stover, 36, of Buffalo, NY, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 29 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $169,330.03 to TJ Maxx Companies, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - John R. Paeglow III, age 64, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to defrauding a commercial finance company. The company paid more than $400,000 to Paeglow’s book printing business for the right to collect payment for the sales of books that, in fact, had not been sold nor shipped.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Stole Nearly $5 Million in Mortgage Refinancing Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Bozeman business owner today admitted tax evasion charges after an investigation determined he under reported his income for two years to avoid paying at least $41,000 in taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: The investigation into an explosion at Platinum Printing, located at 4940 West Ray Road #1, in Chandler last week has found no foul play.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry heads to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Japan, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement urging Kerry not to link US energy needs to “genocidal regime.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Katherine Torres, 47, of Manchester, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in September 2021 (Hours of Operation 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM). Night Sky Program: Friday, September 10th, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Join park staff and members of the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society to gaze at the dark skies above Florissant Fossil...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Burnsville man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Two Daytonians pleaded guilty in federal court to crimes related to a conspiracy to steal checks, credit cards, debit cards, bank account information and Social Security numbers to enrich themselves.
