News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts attorney and his wife have been sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with various mortgage fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: A Tennessee state representative and his former chief of staff were arrested today at their homes on criminal charges related to a bribery and kickback conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Accomplice admits to hiding proceeds. MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William J. Birdsall, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Jacqueline Havens, of Boones Mill, Virginia, have admitted to their involvement in a bank robbery, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. Birdsall, 50, pleading...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Garry William Moran, II, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 84 months of incarceration for drug and counterfeit charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 24, 2022, the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sentenced Kent Lowery Booher, 67, of Harriman, Tennessee, to serve life plus 120 months in federal prison on child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Steven Saris, 47, of Canton, Ohio, was charged in an indictment with operating an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CYNTHIA BOWLEY, age 67, of Meraux, was indicted on Aug. 26, 2022 with one count of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, a violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a five page rule on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Gunnison, Colo. - Blue Mesa Reservoir continues to lose water to downstream stakeholders, according to data recently released by the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR). This means that boat ramps will become increasingly difficult to use and will eventually need to be closed as they become unsafe and unusable. The National Park Service (NPS) is monitoring reservoir levels and will be adjusting as needed to maintain the safety of our boaters.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dennis James Harrison, age 40, of Rocky Ridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child to produce child pornography, related to the sexual exploitation of two minors who were between the ages of 10 and 12 at the time of the abuse. The guilty plea was entered on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today nearly $50 million in Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grants to provide survivors of gender-based violence with access to legal services and improve effective coordination of justice systems impacting victim and family safety. Specifically, OVW awarded ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor kicked off Labor Rights Week 2022 today with the first in a series of nationwide events at the Consular Section of the Mexican Embassy in Washington. Department representatives met with Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma, Rafael Laveaga, Chief of Consular Section of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Nathanael Santiago (29, Ocala) to seven years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a previously convicted felon. A federal jury had found Santiago guilty on May 11, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Mikah Nathaniel Strickland (27, Live Oak) has pleaded guilty to stealing cash deposits from the mail. Strickland faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GABRIEL CORDERO, 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Contact: Jason Martz. GETTYSBURG, PA. - Preservation work on the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park (NMP) will begin by Tuesday, September 6 and will conclude by September 30. The current ferric patination, applied in the early 1980’s, has failed in many areas and has left the bronze...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly manipulated the price of a penny stock and facilitated a pump-and-dump.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The staff of Indiana Dunes National Park is pleased to announce that one of the park’s volunteers, Rob Albrecht-Mallinger, is the national recipient of the National Park Service’s George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. This award recognizes and honors the efforts of exceptional "Volunteers In Parks," or VIPs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Carmel Linot (32, Titusville) with bank fraud, mail fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and two counts of false representation of a Social Security number (SSN). If convicted, Linot...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - James Robert McKinney, 37, of Logan, was sentenced today to one year and nine months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for failing to update his sex offender registration as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
