News from December 2017
By USDA Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 252,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In a case stemming from an investigation into Fashion District businesses using “Black Market Peso Exchange" schemes to launder narcotics proceeds for international drug cartels, an import-export textile business and two executives have pleaded guilty to federal money laundering and tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Studio City clinic and a driver for United Parcel Service have been indicted on health care fraud charges related to unnecessary - and sometimes never-performed - sleep studies that resulted in more than $11 million in bills being submitted to health care benefit programs, primarily for employees of UPS and Costco.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two more members of a gang that operated for a decade in the City of York were sentenced to federal prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant Already Serving 308-Month Sentence For Armed Carjacking and Armored Car Robbery in Maryland.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Director McGettigan: Pursuant to its authority under section 12(e) of S. Res 62 (115th Congress), the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is investigating the development of Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) 2013 regulation that enabled Members of Congress and their...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (KOM), a Singapore-based company that operates shipyards and repairs and upgrades shipping vessels, and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Keppel Offshore & Marine U.S.A. Inc. (KOM USA), have agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $422 million to resolve charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx County District Attorney; Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF); James J. Hunt, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man with two prior federal firearm convictions pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (KOM), a Singapore-based company that operates shipyards and repairs and upgrades shipping vessels, and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Keppel Offshore & Marine U.S.A. Inc. (KOM USA), have agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $422 million to resolve charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In a case stemming from an investigation into Fashion District businesses using "Black Market Peso Exchange" schemes to launder narcotics proceeds for international drug cartels, an import-export textile business and two executives have pleaded guilty to federal money laundering and tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, announced that SIDIKJON MAMADJONOV, 31, a citizen of Uzbekistan residing in New Britain, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with immigration offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Craig Marshall Grayson, 31, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 151 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Grayson...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kmart Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC), has agreed to pay $32.3 million to the United States to settle allegations that in-store pharmacies in Kmart stores failed to report discounted prescription drug prices to Medicare Part D, Medicaid, and TRICARE, the health program for uniformed service members and their families, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Alejandro Llamas-Delgado was one of the state’s biggest methamphetamine traffickers.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK -Twenty-one individuals were indicted Wednesday following an extensive joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD), along with the Bronx District Attorney's Office. Eleven of those individuals were arrested in a takedown Dec. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national illegally residing in Jamaica Plain was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a scheme to produce false identification documents through the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago man of leading an armed robbery crew that targeted retail stores and businesses on the city’s North and Northwest Sides.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed introduction and conveyance of up to 5,000 acre-feet per year of Kern River water in the Friant-Kern Canal for use within Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District over a five-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Lawful Permanent Resident from Uzbekistan Charged with Immigration Offenses.
