News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal and local law enforcement authorities today took into custody seven defendants linked to a drug-distribution ring that operated out of Van Nuys and used a fleet of cars and a staff of drivers to make rapid deliveries - primarily of heroin - in response to phone orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an Anaheim, California, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for laundering money on behalf of an international drug trafficking organization.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A federal grand jury on Wednesday returned an indictment against a North Texas man alleging he produced and possessed prepubescent child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court in two separate cases for drug trafficking and for illegally possessing a machine gun and a rifle.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: In September, Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) struck a deal with committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years. The Finance Committee passed the bipartisan agreement by voice vote in early October.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emeka H. Chijioke, 41, formerly of Atlanta, Ga., and Nigeria, was sentenced today to two years in prison on a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he defrauded the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program out of more than $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Justice Department Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas in Three Computer Crime Cases Involving Significant DDoS Attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Nevada Cardiologist Arrested for Unlawful Distribution of Prescription Opioids and Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal jury in Atlanta has convicted Erick Powell, a former operator and co-owner of the National Vocation Group job-staffing company, of wire fraud. A second defendant and co-owner, Ahmad McCormick, pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Dec. 12, 2017, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Kyle Heller, age 29, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, to five years’ imprisonment for a felony firearms offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EMELDA MATTHEWS, age 36, of Violet, was charged today in a Bill of Information with Aiding and Assisting in the Preparation of False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant JULIAN ROBLES, age 40, from Agat, was sentenced in District Court to a term of 20 years imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Wise County woman, who was previously convicted of making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the federal government, namely an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District in Abingdon, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement at a hearing on presidential considerations for the use of military force. The committee heard testimony from Stephen Hadley, former assistant to the president for national security affairs; Christine Wormuth, former undersecretary of defense for policy; and John Bellinger, former legal advisor to the National Security Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Two current Detroit Police Department Officers and four retired Detroit Police Department Officers have been charged with extortion for accepting bribes from owners of automobile collision shops in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to their shops, acting United States Attorney aniel L. Lemisch announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Sven Franssen, a German national residing in the Netherlands, has been sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison for his role in conspiring to launder the proceeds of fraudulent affiliate marketing websites. The fraudulent sites received increased internet traffic due to a massive computer hacking and illegal spam campaign brought on by a pair of Vietnamese nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Inmate is latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen defendants indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Five federal inmates were sentenced today for possessing weapons at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. As part of separate prosecutions, Scott Finnell, 29, was sentenced to a year and three months in prison; Misael Santana-Rivera...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement in response to the joint statement on pesticide maximum residue levels (MRLs) signed at the 11th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires.
