News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of federal charges against Carmen Silvia Rodriguez in connection with a fraud scheme to steal over $2.6 million from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER ORGERON, age 34, of Harvey, was sentenced today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that EVALDAS RIMASAUSKAS was extradited from Lithuania. In March 2017, RIMASAUSKAS was arrested in Lithuania on the basis of a provisional arrest warrant for orchestrating a fraudulent business email...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Two North Texas residents were each sentenced Thursday to at least 10 years in federal prison for their roles in a scheme to steal personal identifying information, use it to fraudulently obtain income tax refunds, and then launder those funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), William V. Grady, Dutchess County District Attorney, Thomas Pape, Chief of Police for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Matthew Wayne Miller, 24, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Aug. 16, 2017, for being a felon in possession of firearms. Miller was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 41 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man will likely be sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling heroin that caused three overdoses in Wooster, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Kept at least $550,000 in settlement amounts that should have gone to his clients.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - An EM-led collaborative project is exploring using a robot to drive through several hundred miles of pipes at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant to help identify uranium remaining from enrichment operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned a multiple-count indictment in connection with a drug-related murder in Aiken.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a fugitive citizen of the Dominican Republic wanted by Dominican law enforcement authorities for homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge James E. Gates, SHELTON JAMAAL JONES, of Wilson, North Carolina, was charged in a federal Criminal Complaint with one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was sentenced today, lost her United States citizenship, and will be deported from the United States for having obtained her United States citizenship unlawfully, Daniel L. Lemisch, acting United States Attorney announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: A five-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Elozer Porges and Joel Lowy, the former Executive Director and former Assistant Director, respectively, of the school system known as Central United Talmudic Academy (CUTA) in Brooklyn...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Mylan Underpaid Medicaid Rebates on EpiPen.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and the U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer today announced an agreement reached with the government of Colombia to allow for expanded market access for U.S. exports of paddy rice.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A married minister couple, both with felony convictions, were indicted in federal court Tuesday with illegal re-entry into the U.S. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), with assistance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former senior vice president of sales at Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) today admitted participating in a 17-year conspiracy that defrauded customers out of millions of dollars, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Pistol Team (NPT) recently attended the World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) and made its mark in the Police Pistol Combat (PPC) precision pistol shooting competitions. The team posted wins over teams from Hong Kong, Croatia, Canada and Spain, and the North West Indiana Police and British Columbia Sheriffs, among others.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLEN DAVIS, 36, of Meriden, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
