News from December 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A Jamaican national wanted to face charges of robbery, attempted murder and wounding with intent in his home country was arrested Nov. 22 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers, assisted by ERO New York Special Response Team (SRT) operators.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is demanding answers from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over what it’s doing to follow through on almost $90 million in fines it proposed against Lifeline...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced today that JUAN CARLOS ACOSTA, also known as “Juan Carlos Acosta-Santos," 32, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in Manchester, pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: On Nov. 30, 2017, Steven Winberg, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, spoke at the 2017 U.S.-China Clean Coal Industry Forum at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place in Morgantown, West Virginia.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is continuing to seek answers after a report showed that a significant number of Afghan military trainees went missing after coming to the United States for training, requesting details on what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing to locate Afghan trainees who went Absent Without Leave (AWOL).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Fayetteville defense contractor was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in multiple conspiracies to overbill the federal government by more than $15 million on government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Joseph Frank Korzelius, 47, of Tryon, N.C. was sentenced yesterday to 24 months in prison for fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than $450,000 in false claims for mental and behavioral health services he did not provide, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EVER JIMINEZ-MENDOZA, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal use of a Social Security number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
Release: Trafficking in persons, also known as modern slavery or human trafficking, undermines the United States’ core principles and values. It robs millions of people of their freedom, and all too often is a hidden crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: FBI CARD Team Assisting in Search for Missing Toddler in Onslow County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GEORGE DOUMANIS and EMANUEL PANTELAKIS, a/k/a “Manny," each pled guilty today to defrauding investors in Terminus Energy, Inc., a publicly traded penny stock. DOUMANIS and PANTELAKIS each pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman. They will be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter on April 9, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Five men have been indicted on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Russian cyber-criminal Roman Valeryevich Seleznev has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a $50 million cyberfraud ring and for defrauding banks of $9 million through a hacking scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the International Trade Commission’s 4-0 vote confirming that dumped and subsidized plywood are harming American workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Dr. Rafael Beier, 63, of Kingston, Idaho, was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2017, to 192 months in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for unlawfully distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone. Senior U.S.District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Beier to pay a $63,000 fine and to forfeit proceeds of $732,800.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Dr. Arthur S. Portnow, the owner and operator of Arthur S. Portnow, P.A., d/b/a Apple Medical and Cardiovascular Group, d/b/a Apple Medical Group (collectively, Dr. Portnow) has agreed to pay $1.95 million to resolve allegations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Scottsdale, Arizona was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy, charges of introduction into interstate commerce, with the intent to defraud, misbranded drugs, and two charges of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The former mayor of south suburban Markham solicited and received bribes from vendors while in office in exchange for steering them city business, according to a 12-count indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that on November...
