News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Jose Ulices Valenzuela-Gradiz, 35, of San Marcos de Colon, Choluteca, Honduras, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Aug. 3, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Valenzuela-Gradiz was arrested in Worland, Wyoming. He received...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David R. Parker, age 39, of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with sex trafficking involving a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WENDELL BELLE, a/k/a “Delly Dell," was sentenced this afternoon to a term of 384 months of imprisonment in federal custody, which must run consecutively to a prior sentence of 108 months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Man Charged for His Role in Creating the Kronos Banking Trojan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of LUIS MANUEL SANCHEZ-LOPEZ for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine. SANCHEZ-LOPEZ entered his guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL., today, introduced the Corporate Transparency Act of 2017, S. 1717, to prevent individuals from using anonymous shell corporations to engage in illicit activities like money laundering, human trafficking, fraud and terrorist financing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Russian Citizen Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Involvement in Global Botnet Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Darby, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for the distribution of furanyl fentanyl, a Schedule I controlled substance, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., and a bipartisan group of colleagues announced the SIMPLE Act, legislation to reduce administrative burdens on struggling student loan borrowers. The legislation allows vulnerable...
By State Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged the U.S. to wage an international campaign against the Palestinian Authority’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Jackson, Tennessee Gangster Disciple was sentenced to 292 months in federal prison. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - There is still a long road of construction work ahead, but also much to celebrate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Karl Edward Hahn, 44, of Manchester, Connecticut and formerly of New Castle, New Hampshire pleaded guilty on Tuesday to participating in a wire fraud scheme that defrauded a victim of approximately $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, announced that BOBBY JOSEPH HAMMOND, age 38, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Bill of Information for destruction of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: An indictment was unsealed charging three Dearborn Heights men with bribing officials from Garden City, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man convicted of Use of Interstate Facilities to Transmit Information about a Minor was sentenced on July 31, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: A former Summit County councilwoman was sentenced to five years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for trying to influence court proceedings and investigations, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Glendale Defense Attorney and Others Involved in Scheme Allegedly Obstructed Justice by Creating Fake Medical Records to Justify Fraudulent Prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender was sentenced on Aug. 1, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
