News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Marco Antonio Esquivel-Cornejo, 30; Jesus Argel Esquivel-Cornejo, 27; and Oliver Lopez Alvarado, 25, all Mexican nationals residing in Modesto, charging them with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and the manufacture of marijuana, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that BORIS KOTLYARSKY pled guilty to extortion conspiracy and extortion in connection with a scheme to extract payment from a person who believed that he was the subject of a murder-for-hire plot. KOTLYARSKY pled guilty this morning in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, and U.S. Sen. Mike ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 26, 2016, David Earl Taylor, 50, of Bristol, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 235 months in federal prison. Taylor was also ordered to remain under supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office for the remainder...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of new consumer privacy rules for internet service providers...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In July of 2015, support was surging for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. As the House prepared to vote on Cures, resounding support from leading health care experts and thought leaders from both sides of the aisle poured in. Most importantly, over 700 groups encompassing patient...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In July of 2015, support was surging for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. As the House prepared to vote on Cures, resounding support from leading health care experts and thought leaders from both sides of the aisle poured in. Most importantly, over 700 groups encompassing patient...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of new consumer privacy rules for internet service providers...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Zuleyka Jeanette Colon-Rivera (25, Orlando) guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, and three counts of distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute heroin. She faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. The sentencing has been set for January 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kionte K. Whatley, 19, and Kasie A. Morgan, 24, both of Columbus, Ohio pled guilty to transporting stolen goods across state lines, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Eugene Willis (22, Orlando), Sedrick Lamar Hamilton (24, Orlando), and Justin Deontae Crumpton (18, Orlando) with carjacking and firearms offenses. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment charging Tony A. Vonneida, age 62, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, with sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of new consumer privacy rules for internet service providers...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Dominique Washington, 27, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment Complaint with conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, in a scheme, involving numerous individuals, in which fraudulent Sears credit accounts were opened in victims’ names and co-conspirators, whose names...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Burglary, Identity Theft, Larceny, and Forgery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SEAN LONDON, 23, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KEVIN RICHARD, age 26, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to engaging in mail fraud for his role in submitting a fraudulent application for disaster assistance money in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Boca Raton, Florida, man today admitted his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that generated $1.3 million in illegal profits by hijacking customer email accounts to send unsolicited “spam" emails, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.
