News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Last night the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Northern District of Iowa hosted a town hall at the Waterloo Center for the Arts to discuss treatment options available to tackle the opioid and heroin epidemic facing the greater Waterloo and Black Hawk County community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN A. BARILE, 52, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 71 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for arson, insurance fraud, gambling and extortion offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed today charging three people in a conspiracy to sell illegally obtained driver’s licenses to undocumented aliens, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Jose Altagracia Morales Santiago, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, Jose Jhonkellyn Castillo-Henriquez, 28, of New York, NY, and Hiram Mojica, 49, of Philadelphia, PA, are each charged with one count of conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and producing an identification document.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Matthew Jaskula, 26, of Buffalo, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with deprivation of rights under color of law. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 20-year-old local man has admitted he kidnapped a six-year-old girl from her Corpus Christi home and intended to take her to Arizona, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Charles Hicks, Fenton, Missouri, was indicted Wednesday afternoon on mail fraud charges in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that spanned three years and involved two employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was convicted at trial yesterday of distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Quinton Spurlock, 50, of Hobbs, N.M., pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by illegally possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former agent and a former driver for a large national trucking company were sentenced prison for paying bribes to officials at the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, in order to obtain lucrative freight-hauling business, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III of the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Scott Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Defendants receive sentences of 92 and 120 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record at a Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Markup on H.R. ___, the “FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016;" H.R. 5111, the “Consumer Review Fairness Act;" H.R. 5092, the “Reinforcing American Made Products Act;" and H.R. 5104, the “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven Fryer, 39, of Atoka, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Fryer will be sentenced to 63 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Julius H. Willie, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Standing Rock, N.M., pled guilty this morning in Albuquerque, N.M., to an aggravated sexual abuse charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Willie will be sentenced to 21 years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Willie will also be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - After a six-day trial, on June 8, 2016, a federal jury on St. Croix convicted Damian Lang, Sr., 37, of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and bank robbery, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID POLOS, formerly an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and GLEN GLOVER, a DEA Information Technology Specialist, were convicted of conspiracy and making...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - In a criminal complaint unsealed here today, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, of Alexandria, has been charged with providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D (R-TX) today advanced four bills to modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Over the past year the subcommittee’s Disrupter Series has provided an opportunity for the...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Inhofe Requests Further Clarification on EPA Response to Supreme Court Stay of the Clean Power Plan
