News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday for witness tampering for disclosing personal identification information of shooting victims and their family members to a leader of a street gang. The case was the result of work by the Detroit One partnership of local, state and federal law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Cory Thomas Sargent, age 23, of Barnwell, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Brandishing a Weapon During a Crime of Violence, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs, of Columbia, sentenced Sargent to 7 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a North Carolina man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the sexual exploitation of a child in Joplin, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases including “El Chapo," has arrived in the United States to face criminal charges in connection with his leadership of the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEFAN LUMIERE, a former portfolio manager at Visium Asset Management, was convicted of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, securities fraud, and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Bernard Stokley, a/k/a Big Pat, Tobias Ellison, Alvin Hughley, a/k/a Alvin Beasley, and Vance Hoard, a/k/a Bernard Hoard, a/k/a Vance Holland, all of Atlanta, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin in Atlanta’s English Avenue community. The defendants advertised their heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Two men from Moore County, Texas, who pleaded guilty last year to federal offenses stemming from their respective roles in a marijuana trafficking organization, were sentenced yesterday, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Geena Lauren Milho, 25, of Williston, North Dakota was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 36 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released new information in an addendum to a joint report, “Joint Congressional Investigative Report into the Source of Funding for the ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program," released in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Costco Pharmacies Filled Prescriptions that Were Improper or Incomplete.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Law enforcement discovered heroin in vehicle concealed in tubes of grease.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday for witness tampering for disclosing personal identification information of shooting victims and their family members to a leader of a street gang. The case was the result of work by the Detroit One partnership of local, state and federal law enforcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Aside from the president, there may be no individual with a tighter grasp on the levers of this country’s economy than the Secretary of the Treasury. That’s been true since the days of Alexander Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B Three men from Mexico appeared in federal court in Topeka today on charges of smuggling liquid methamphetamine into Kansas City, Kan., in the gas tank of a semi-trailer truck, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY FORBES, 35, of Allentown, Pa., pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to federal charges stemming from his role in a violent kidnapping and jewelry store robbery in April 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Jason Chaffetz requesting that all Committee Members be allowed to participate in a private meeting on Monday with the Office of Government Ethics Director Walter M. Schaub, Jr., after Chaffetz reversed his threat to subpoena Director Shaub for a transcribed interview.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Olive Hill, Ky., man, who previously admitted that he possessed thousands of images and hundreds of videos containing child pornography, has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: JAN. 19, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2011-2015 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files, 2011-2015 Variance Replicate Estimates, and Spanish translation will be available for the 2015 1-Year and 2011-2015 5-Year Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) from the American Community Survey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Michael Lee Westbrook, age 40, of Greenville, pled guilty this morning in federal court in Anderson to a felon in possession of a firearm indictment. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain 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 | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Akhror Saidakhmetov, a citizen of Kazakhstan and a resident of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Today’s plea took place before United States District Judge William F. Kuntz, II. At sentencing, Saidakhmetov faces up to 15 years in prison and presumptive removal to his country of origin, Kazakhstan.
