News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DAVID CHUKWUNEKE ADINDU pled guilty this morning before U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Toledo is one of a dozen cities selected to receive additional federal support in combating violent crime, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: COUER D’ALENE - U.S. Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Dr. Stanley Toelle to one month in federal prison to be followed by one year supervised release for submitting false income tax returns in 2012 and 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Toelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that EMIL RENSING pled guilty in connection with his scheme to defraud his employer, a premium cable network (the “Network"), of more than $7 million through false statements about purported services...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: $5,000 Reward Offered for Capture of Bank Robbery Suspect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Toledo is one of a dozen cities selected to receive additional federal support in combating violent crime, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Christopher Jacob Rankins, 32, of Pensacola, Florida, has pled guilty to twelve counts of aiding or assisting others in the preparation of false tax returns. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On June 20, 2017, Victoria Lovan, age 67, of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey and was sentenced to 16 months in prison for charges related to a Nigerian email scam, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Lovan was sentenced to 16 months of imprisonment for three counts of wire fraud, and was ordered to pay restitution to the victims.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on a report that Republican leadership will delay action on the Senate sanctions bill because of an easily fixable origination ("blue slip") issue. The issue deals with the Constitutional requirement that all legislation that raises revenue must originate in the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Thursday, June 15, 2017, a grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Augustine Amon Reyes, 31, of Bakersfield, charging him with receipt and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Alexis Vlachos, 40, of Montreal, Quebec, was recently extradited from Quebec to the District of Vermont to face multiple federal firearms charges, including exporting firearms from the United States into Canada without a permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Mexican man to nine years in prison for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms, 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 | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Petersburg, West Virginia, man was convicted today of methamphetamine distribution and illegal possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an El Salvadorian man with illegally reentry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Former THP Sergeant Paid $8,000 To Smuggle Woman Into The U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant PETER MENDIOLA DIEGO, age 48, from Tamuning, was sentenced yesterday in District Court to a 63-month term of imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the conviction of RONALD DAVID JOHNSON, 51, for stealing more than $2.1 million from victims who were hoping to invest successfully in the North Dakota oil boom. JOHNSON, who was charged in a superseding indictment with nine counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, was found guilty on all counts by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy will award 263 grants totaling $116 million to 184 small businesses in 40 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for both Phase I and II research and development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lexington, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to failing to pay over to the IRS more than $1.4 million in payroll taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Steven Nygren, 50, of Salem, Massachusetts, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank fraud, credit card fraud and tax evasion charges.
