News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - The former CEO of a Nebraska pharmaceutical benefits manager has pleaded guilty to engaging in illegal kickbacks in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - A registered sex offender who has been living in Wichita pleaded guilty Monday to distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted Monday to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s designated nominee for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that ten alleged members of the Black Mob Gangstas/Donald Gee Family (BMG/DGF) Raleigh-area Bloods street gang, including its leaders, have been indicted in Raleigh, for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise and related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On February 8, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Adam C. Cobb, 48, formerly of Portsmouth, RI, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to 5 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Cobb was arrested in April 2015, following an investigation by agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (RI ICAC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Greenbrier County man was sentenced today to two years in prison for a federal tax crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Brandon J. Black, 32, of Maxwelton, previously pleaded guilty to failing to pay employment taxes. He was also ordered to pay $632,583.18 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced the former CEO of ZeekRewards to 176 months in prison for operating a $900 million Internet Ponzi scheme. Paul Burks, 70, of Lexington, N.C. was also ordered to serve three...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, have introduced legislation to improve the nation’s volcano monitoring and early warning capabilities to help keep communities and travelers safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and 7 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Vincenzo Leonardi, 27, of Lakewood, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to production of child pornography in connection with his online impersonation of a minor girl to entice and coerce minor boys to produce sexually explicit photographs and videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Peggy Chaffin, 37, of Portsmouth, Ohio, pled guilty to illegally possessing a gun and using said gun to obstruct a Deputy U. S. Marshal, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and 7 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Vincenzo Leonardi, 27, of Lakewood, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to production of child pornography in connection with his online impersonation of a minor girl to entice and coerce minor boys to produce sexually explicit photographs and videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev.-Three men, including two former felons, were arrested and face criminal charges after posting videos on Snapchat of themselves illegally shooting firearms which included a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI Las Vegas field office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Four people involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank by placing a hoax bomb at an elementary school to divert police were in federal court last week after their January indictment was unsealed, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Alan Kemp, age 38, of District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery and to using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Kemp was employed as a civilian police officer by the Department of the Army at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, at the time of the crime.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Research showing a higher dose of vitamin D may benefit pregnant women by reducing inflammation is among the new nutrition and health findings in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the most recent missile test by North Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Two Pennsylvania Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to File Federal Tax Returns Using Stolen IDs.
