News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Former Swiss Banker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charge in Connection With Soccer Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that yesterday a federal jury has convicted LAZANDY DANIELS, age 40, of the St. Roch neighborhood, for his role in distributing kilograms of cocaine in the New Orleans area. Following a three-day trial, the jury found DANIELS guilty of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride (powder) and 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack"); and two counts relating to the distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today filed civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of approximately $540 million in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Federal and local law enforcement authorities arrested eight people this week for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization that distributed cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Due to excessive heat warnings for Roosevelt, AZ and surrounding areas, the trail to the Lower Cliff Dwellings will be closed starting Saturday, June 17 and lasting until Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The trail will reopen on Thursday, June 22, at which time we will return to our normal business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Fayette County woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for escaping from federal custody following a prior federal felony conviction, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today issued the following statements praising today’s findings by a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel regarding a longstanding dispute with the European Union over aircraft subsidies. The panel rejected 28 out of 29 of the European Union’s claims that the United States provides WTO-inconsistent subsidies to Boeing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Norwalk Police Chief Thomas Kulhawik today announced that CHARLES THELUSMA, 43, formerly of Bridgeport, has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin, carfentanil and U47700.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 42-year-old Lewisville, Texas man has been found guilty of child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FERNANDO ORDONEZ, age 38, of Marrero, pled guilty yesterday to charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, and possessing of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill are calling for answers on the security clearance process for National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner, who is accused of leaking classified information about attempted Russian hacking of U.S. voting software.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A fire inspector for Middlesex Borough and other New Jersey municipalities and another individual have been charged with conspiracy to commit extortion using threats of force, violence, and fear, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Zachariah Nez, 19, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a voluntary manslaughter charge. The plea agreement recommends a prison sentence within the range of six to 11 years followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Luis Tellez, a/k/a “Jorge Luiz Hernandez-Tellez," a/k/a “Efren Serrano," of Norristown, PA was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about May 17, 2017, Tellez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Feb. 18, 2013, September 9, 2013, April 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City’s District Office announced on June 15, 2017, that DEA had secured 19 separate guilty pleas from Kansas City metropolitan residents resulting from a 4.3 million dollar methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. These...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: First defendants charged with U-4 distribution resulting in death,.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on reports that federal prosecutors have issued 12 arrest warrants for Turkish security officials in connection with the May 16 attacks outside the Turkish residence in Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Troy Brown, age 40, was sentenced on June 12, 2017 by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to serve 17 years’ imprisonment for his leadership role in a large-scale heroin distribution network operating between Williamsport and Bloomsburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon on charges of international parental kidnapping.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to examine the U.S. Forest Service’s $4.7 billion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018, which would be about $880 million less than the previous fiscal year.
