News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Christopher Freeze Named Special Agent in Charge of Jackson Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Dear Minority Leader Reid: Yesterday, I requested unanimous consent to call up and pass S. 2912, the Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2016. I am deeply disappointed that you objected to my request-delaying the passage of bipartisan legislation to give hope to terminal patients across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Benjamin Douglas Guidry has entered a guilty plea to two counts of sexual exploitation of children and for knowingly making a false claim in the nature of preparing and filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI) and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 28, 2016, Sherry L. Barnett, 47, of Jonesborough, Tenn., was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison for conspiring to unlawfully distribute and dispense oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Tulsa County probate attorney made his initial appearance today in U.S. District Court on charges stemming from his embezzling $587,000 from probate estate accounts he controlled. United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma and Special Agent in Charge R. Damon Rowe of the IRS-CI’s Dallas Office announced the criminal charges at a news conference held this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Och-Ziff Capital Management Admits to Role in Africa Bribery Conspiracies and Agrees to Pay $213 Million Criminal Fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: To cut costs, health care reform requires less government, not more.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JADALLAH SAED, age 30; ANWAR ABDELMAJID-AHMAD, a/k/a Tony, age 29, both of Gretna; ATALLA ATALLA, a/k/a Tommy, age 38, of Wilmington, North Carolina; JUSTIN BROWN, age 29; JOSHUA CARTHON, age 32, and GARRETT PARTMAN, age 31, all of New Orleans, were arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - A major drug trafficker was sentenced to serve 12 ½ years in federal prison today, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Stephen G. Azzam and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen, age 29, of Amityville, New York, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and other charges related to the trafficking of a 16 year-old female for prostitution in Maryland, Virginia, and New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tiffany Renee Taylor, 27, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Government of Sudan’s use of chemical weapons in Darfur...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. One of the men was also indicted for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: In Austin this morning 54-year-old San Juana Valdez Menchaca and her husband, 57-year-old Julian Perez Perez, were sentenced to 70 months and 33 months in federal prison, respectively, for conspiring to smuggle more than 500 undocumented aliens into the United States announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden in San Antonio, and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Lloyd Nathaniel Joyner, a/k/a Zulu, a/k/a Zu, and Dave Montonio Sturgis, Jr., have been convicted in federal district court in connection with a string of armed, drug store robberies in Atlanta and Cobb County, Georgia, in May and June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.‐U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that John Hayward, aka Frizz, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, was sentenced to 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Och-Ziff Enters into 3-Year Deferred Prosecution Agreement; Och-Ziff Subsidiary Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the FCPA.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: James William Mills To Be Sentenced In December.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing on the conflict in Syria, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the Obama administration of a “failed presidency" on foreign policy after repeated refusal to take steps that could have alleviated humanitarian suffering ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY PEARLMAN, 49, of Edgewood, N.J., was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint that charges him with engaging in a kickback scheme that defrauded federal healthcare programs.
