News from December 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Fla. - An indictment charging seven individuals for their involvement in a marriage fraud ring operating out of Brevard County from 2015 to 2016 has been unsealed and brings the total arrests in this ring to nine individuals. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: A Florida man was indicted today on multiple counts of conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dakar Young, 23, of Tonawanda, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession and distribution of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted Deandre Forrest, 39, of Columbus, of seven counts related to the distribution of cocaine and crack and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Federal jury convicted defendant of drug charge following jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Dec. 13, 2017, United States District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced Michael Evans, age 57, and William Uggiano, age 60, both of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for stealing funds from a local union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Kearneysville, West Virginia man has admitted to his role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Of Bank Robberies. HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Artez Brewer, age 30, of Gary, Indiana was convicted of 3 counts of bank robbery, after a three-day jury trial before District Court Senior Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced the three remaining members of the Maurio Mitchell Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO), responsible for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: FBI San Diego Presents 2017 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award to MANA de San Diego.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID CHUKWUNEKE ADINDU was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 41 months in prison for participating in a wire fraud conspiracy and identity theft conspiracy. These charges stemmed from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron yesterday sentenced Meinrad Kopp (55), a German citizen and resident of Switzerland, to life in federal prison and a life term of supervision for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. The Court also imposed a special assessment of $5,000, and ordered him to pay a fine of $250,000 and forfeit a cellphone, laptop computer, and camera that had been used to facilitate the offense.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision to overturn the Browning-Ferris Industries decision, nullifying the Board’s joint employer standard and undermining protections for millions of workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago has charged two suburban mortgage brokers with fraudulently operating a purportedly independent appraisal management company to control property valuations, and brokering fraudulent loans to finance real estate transactions between themselves and nominees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jason McGoldrick, 36, of Windham, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to a year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for perjury. McGoldrick pleaded guilty on July 27, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy held a Puerto Rico Power Resiliency Workshop on Dec. 13, 2017 to gather experts from the whole community of public and private energy stakeholders to support a long-term plan to enhance the resilience of Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure. The conversation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Walter Doran Stole More Than $108,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: DALLAS -Nemelee Liwanag Jiao, 47, of Irving, Texas, pleaded guilty today, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver, to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 35 investors more than $1,000,000, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Hakeem James Hughes, age 28, of Stowe, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 13, 2017, by a federal grand jury for offenses involving the exploitation of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell National Historical Park, one of 417 units of the National Park Service, engages people in the exploration and preservation of the dynamic human stories of the American Industrial Revolution in Lowell, MA. Nearly 200 years ago, Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted...
