News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Additional Victims of Suffolk County Police Officer Charged Today with Civil Rights Violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities on Monday and Tuesday arrested three defendants charged with participating in a tax fraud scheme that used stolen identities to file at least 527 fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming more than $1.9 million in fraudulent tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Hubbard, 34, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for his role in two separate conspiracies: one to create and operate a website that sold high-quality, custom-made fake identification documents, some of which were later used to commit financial crimes, and a second to fraudulently obtain tax refund checks, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Keith Wilson, 36, of Youngstown, with failing to register as a sex offender, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for robbing a Valley National bank in Belleville, New Jersey, in April 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An investment manager with an office in Short Hills, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for that he fraudulently inducing investments, concealing investment losses, and diverting more than $675,000 in investor money for his own use, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, the Senate parliamentarian determined that portions of Section 207, “Waivers for State Innovation," of the Republican health bill are not permissible under Senate rules. Notably, the part that would have amended Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to allow states to waive essential health benefits and other pre-existing condition requirements so long as their proposal does not increase the federal deficit violates the Byrd Rule.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an auction Thursday, August 3 at 10 a.m. to sell 17 parcels of public land, totaling 81.25 acres. Parcels vary in size from 1.25 to 17.5 acres and are located primarily in the southern portion of the Las Vegas Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dashawn Abrams, 27, of Denver, CO, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute marijuana, and money laundering conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Daniel Rogers, 30, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim stated: “In his unbridled pursuit of even greater personal fortune, billionaire Ng Lap Seng corrupted the highest levels of the United Nations. Through bribes and no show jobs, Ng turned leaders of the league of nations into his private band of profiteers. Ng's journey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man has been arrested and charged in connection with a bank robbery in Bergen County in January 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LUIS MANUEL RODRIGUEZ BURGOS, 36, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Guatemalan fugitive, wanted in his home country for the aggravated rape of two minors, was returned to Guatemala Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), joined by Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Karen Bass (D-CA), introduced today the AGOA and MCA Modernization Act (H.R. 3445 ). The bipartisan legislation strengthens both the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the Millennium Challenge Act (MCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced two men for conspiring to traffic nearly $2 million worth of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl in Jefferson County, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Gary Tuggle, Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Philadelphia Field Division announced the release of its Analysis of Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2016 report at a news conference today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Hubbard, 34, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
