News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Fred Deshawn Edwards, age 22, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today by United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks. Edwards previously entered a guilty plea in federal court on February 6, 2017, for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a prohibited person.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) and Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) today wrote to the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico, arguing that the Board should not certify the current Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA), which the lawmakers say would benefit wealthy creditors at the expense of the Island’s residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Investigating a Series of Suspicious White Powder Letters Sent to U.S Congressional 6th District Candidate Karen Handel, Neighbors, and Several Media Outlets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Sterling man who downloaded thousands of child pornography images and videos was sentenced today to five years in prison.
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on the administration’s Cuba policy announcement today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A former telecommunications employee of Lincoln Land Community College, John H. Martinez, 48, was sentenced today for defrauding the college of nearly $700,000 over a seven-year period. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ordered that Martinez serve 29 months (2 years, 5 months)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The investigation by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation into the alleged misuse of former Governor Kitzhaber’s and Ms. Hayes’s positions for their personal benefit has concluded and no federal criminal charges will be sought. The United States will not comment further on this matter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Brian Charles Tolley, 32, of Bedford, Virginia, was sentenced today to 9 years in prison, after having been previously convicted at trial in West Palm Beach, Florida of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, possession of counterfeit government seals with the intent to defraud, money laundering, making and subscribing false federal income tax returns, and failing to file federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Bradley Visosky of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas was one of 179 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 33rd Director’s Awards Ceremony held on June 16, 2017 in Washington D.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - As Congress and the administration continue to work to overhaul the nation’s broken tax code, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on tax stakeholders to provide ideas, proposals, and feedback on how to improve the American tax system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, a jury convicted 40-year-old Austin and Houston resident Marvin Lewis (aka “Beau Louis"), who represented himself at trial, of federal charges in connection with a series of robberies and attempted robberies in Texas in 2014 and 2015 as well as one robbery in Ohio in 2015. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kimberly O’Toole, 49, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information today with four counts of wire fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Michael Allen Braun, 54, of Forest Lake, Minnesota, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and $126,300 in restitution for conspiracy (to commit theft of honest services and wire fraud) and bribery of a public official. Co-conspirator United States Air Force Master Sergeant Cody...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb made the announcement that a Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, - A former LaRue County Sheriff was charged in a felony information this week with a single count of embezzling money, that was under his care and custody, and belonged to Larue County, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to falsely representing a number to be his social security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to eight years in prison and ordered him to repay $10.9 million he embezzled from the Shelby County scrap metal brokerage where he was chief financial officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Travis Marcel Hickman (31, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
