News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Former Washington State Auditor TROY X. KELLEY was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma of possession of stolen property, making false declarations in a court proceeding, and tax fraud announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The jury deliberated for two days following a five-week trial. The charges stem from a business KELLEY operated before being elected to statewide office. KELLEY is scheduled for sentencing on March 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARRELL J. WILLIAMS, age 46, of Houston, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for conspiracy to misapply, embezzle federal funds and to commit access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Javon Wright (a.k.a. “Ace"), 32, previously of Rutland, Vermont, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to 21 months imprisonment for the crime of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Glen Allen man was arrested late yesterday in Kansas on charges of fraud, false statements, and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Javon Wright (a.k.a. “Ace"), 32, previously of Rutland, Vermont, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to 21 months imprisonment for the crime of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KENNETH JOHNS, age 46, of Rosharon, Texas, pled guilty today to making false statements in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer testing on an offshore oil and gas platform located at Ship Shoal 225 positioned on a federal mineral lease in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow sentenced Mary Bauer (aka Mary Almassy) to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Bauer was also ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution. Bauer had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will have reduced hours on Christmas Day, December 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to trafficking steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - San Jose businesswoman Sridevi Aiyaswamy was sentenced to 13 months in prison today as a result of her involvement in executing an H-1B visa fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on Republican plans to postpone action on the bipartisan Alexander-Murray bill through the end of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing a TD Bank in Paterson in June 2017 and an Investors Bank in Clifton, New Jersey, in July 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - John B. Alwood pled guilty to one count of accessing with intent to view child pornography depicting a prepubescent child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced Acting U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss of the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney David J. Freed for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge Michael Harpster of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division announced today that Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, age 21, a U.S...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including Tonto National Monument, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A professional racecar driver who lives in Leawood was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of failing to report millions in income from payday lending business he owned, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The defendant’s accountant was indicted, too.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Victor G. Dearing, age 35, of Greenwood, pled guilty in federal court in Anderson, to possession of a firearm by a felon, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain, of Anderson, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Defendants Flaunted Cash and Goods Funded by $1.2 Million Bank & Identity Theft Schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former city attorney of Manhattan, Kan., was sentenced Tuesday to 210 months in federal prison on child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Three Miami-Dade residents were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and to illegally export aviation parts and equipment to Syria, contrary to comprehensive U.S. economic sanctions against Syria, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 and the...
