News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other law enforcement authorities this morning arrested six people charged in three federal indictments that allege illegal firearms sales and drug distribution.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the Committee’s Chairman, today announced that they introduced legislation that would impose new sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad Regime, encourage negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dylan Henry Ritter, 36, of Gardendale, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria, and Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Michael Katzin, 35 of Philadelphia was sentenced to 112 months’ imprisonment yesterday by the U.S. District Court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter after having been found guilty by a jury in January 2016 of one count of conspiracy to commit pharmacy burglary, one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that a Malcolm Tanner, 52, of Burlington, Vermont has been charged by a criminal complaint with possessing a.22 caliber semi-automatic rifle after having been convicted of multiple felonies. Tanner appeared before United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy yesterday, and was detained pending a detention hearing on July 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Defendant Processeed and Kept Pay Checks for Himself Even Though His Salary Was Directly Deposited Into His Personal Bank Account.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: In step with the Republican-led Senate, the Finance Committee produced significant bipartisan policy achievements for the American people in the second session of the 114th Congress. From equipping American job creators with the tools they need to grow the economy to introducing legislation aimed to curb tax refund fraud and protect taxpayers, the Committee added to its growing list of bipartisan products aimed to produce real results for American families and the economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Business Partner Earlier Pled Guilty in Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Barrio Azteca Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week promises to be buzzing with activity, both inside and outside Quicken Loans Arena. There’s one thing that shouldn’t be buzzing around, however - drones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Michael Katzin, 35 of Philadelphia was sentenced to 112 months’ imprisonment yesterday by the U.S. District Court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter after having been found guilty by a jury in January 2016 of one count of conspiracy to commit pharmacy burglary, one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A San Diego man pleaded guilty today to submitting a false draw request on a construction loan from United Bank, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Daniel Berg, 60, entered his guilty plea to making a false statement to a financial institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney John Walsh and Special Agent in Charge Ken Croke, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Denver Division announced today that Kenneth Allen Francis, 28, of Denver Colorado, was found guilty yesterday by a jury after a three-day trial on three counts related to the criminal acquisition or disposal of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation that would limit the ability of private companies that operate prisons to take advantage of special tax rules for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) -- U.S. corporations that invest in real estate.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the Expanded Access to Treatment and Recovery Act, legislation that would provide $920 million in funding to give states the tools and resources to invest in treatment of and recovery from prescription opioid and heroin abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Walt Green announced the results of another federal prosecution related to drug trafficking of heroin pills pressed to resemble Oxycodone. On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, a U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal jury convicted the Chief of Police of Stevenson, Alabama, Daniel Winters, 56, of two counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law: one count for beating an arrestee, identified as D.F., and one count for failing to protect the victim from harm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vineet Kalucha, 52, an investment fund manager from Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for obstructing justice in an investigation into his business activities that was being conducted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former Solicitor for Hazle Township, Luzerne County, pleaded guilty today to the theft of approximately $105,586 from the township.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Anthony Parent, 23, of Milford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $7,000 in restitution to victims of his offense. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2015.
