News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Investigating officers from the National Park Service and California State Parks obtained information and surveillance video of a suspect using one of the credit cards stolen the night of the 26th. Through interviews and investigation, officers were able to identify the offender as Mykah Mode of Crescent City. Officers obtained an arrest warrant along with a residential search warrant for Mode’s residence in Crescent City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Jason Morel, 22, and Kenith Quesada, 23, of Bronx, New York pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to aggravated identity theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Lt. General Michael Flynn’s former business partner, Bijan R. Kian, requesting documents to assist in the Committee’s investigation of General Flynn’s unreported foreign contacts and foreign business relationships.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal jury found a Baldwin man guilty Wednesday for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operated in the St. Mary Parish area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANGIE CAMBRE, age 43, of Laplace, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal jury found a Baldwin man guilty Wednesday for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operated in the St. Mary Parish area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 45-year-old Edinburg man has been convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Miguel Jiminez Borda (38) and Alejandra Maria Mayo (34), both of Naples, with two counts of attempting to smuggle firearms from the United States to Bolivia. If convicted, each faces...
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 Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss three nominations. First is Mr. Robert Charrow’s nomination to serve as the general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services. This is a tough job under normal circumstances, but it’s especially tough in the Trump administration. That’s because the HHS general counsel’s role is to enforce the law, and right now the president and his team are determined to undermine the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: FBI and Atlanta PD Announce Capture in Detroit, Michigan of Atlanta Murder Suspect Dwight Lewis.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, bipartisan legislation spearheaded by Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) of the Senate HELP Committee to reauthorize FDA’s so-called “user fee agreements." These...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nominations of Gilbert B. Kaplan to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Matthew Bassett to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Robert Charrow to serve as General Counsel of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Sentence of 36 Months of Imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. Climbing routes temporarily closed to protect nesting falcons have been reopened after peregrine falcon chicks successfully fledged from their nests on the Tower. Routes on the southeast face and the southeast edges of the Tower summit, including the east side of the Meadows, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal jury found a Krotz Springs man guilty Wednesday of possessing firearms and ammunition after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that GARY HIRST, former president and chairman of the board of Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was sentenced to 78 months in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman who forged a court order to get another inmate released from prison, pleaded guilty in federal court today to obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: A Russian citizen was sentenced today for his participation in a criminal enterprise that installed and exploited malicious computer software (“malware") on tens of thousands of computer servers throughout the world to generate millions of dollars in fraudulent payments. Acting Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
