News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: DEC 07 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Luke Greenlaw, 43, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to seven years in prison, and five years of supervised release for distributing “bath salts" and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant used Facebook to contact underage victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James C. Bedford, 50, of Dumfries, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced December 6, 2016, to twelve years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: On Nov. 19, 2016, America’s most advanced weather satellite rocketed into orbit carrying six new, state-of-the-art instruments, dramatically enhanced observation capabilities, and some crucial NIST calibrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, issued the following statement today regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Marine Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been convicted by a jury of four men and eight women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of production, attempted production, and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. joined Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, Armed Services ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the House voted unanimously to pass the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act, authored by Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC). This legislation helps ensure combat-injured veterans are able to recover income taxes that were improperly collected by the Department of Defense on certain disability severance payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Eight individuals arrested on Nov. 26, 2016, for their part in a robbery at Plaza Frontenac were indicted today for interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that Southeast Orthopedic Specialists (SOS), a Jacksonville, Florida-based orthopedic medical group, has agreed to pay the government $4.488 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced the unsealing of charges today against NIMESH PATEL, a former information technology employee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two Albuquerque residents pled guilty today to federal drug trafficking charges. Jovas Brown, 30, pled guilty to a federal methamphetamine trafficking charge and Desiree Otero, 23, pled guilty to a federal heroin trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Knoxville Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking Conspiracy and Drug Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a six-count superseding indictment charging DAVID ADAMS, 56, of Old Saybrook, with additional tax offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for emailing bomb threats to multiple schools and universities in three different states.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The CEO of a Florida-based financial firm has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the sale of $179 million in sham loans to a Milwaukee investment company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on December 7, 2016, Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Victor Ramirez, 25, of Lexington, Nebraska, to 18 months in federal prison for the felony offense of taking bribes to engage in certain actions connected with his state employment. Upon his release from prison, Ramirez will serve two years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - David Perez Hernandez was sentenced today to six years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Joon Kim, Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael McGarrity, Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that a Roman marble peplophoros statue (the “Torlonia Peplophoros")...
