News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Commit Murder in Aid of Racketeering.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Adding to strong recent demonstrations that particles of light perform what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance," in which two separated objects can have a connection that exceeds everyday experience, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that particles of matter can act really spooky too.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: New York Man Sentenced for Making False Statements in Connection with A Federal Sex Trafficking Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the DeCavalcante Family of La Cosa Nostra was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for using a telephone to plan the murder of an organized crime rival, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The office manager and part-owner of a Reseda medical clinic has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme that generated millions of dollars - money that was not reported on his federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Vlad Diaconu, 36, of Bucharest, Romania, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Fourteen defendants of a violent, drug trafficking street gang, along with fifteen individuals not affiliated with "Young Mob" were indicted on federal drug charges. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the charges yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Cason “Casey" Moreland, 59, of Nashville, Tenn., was charged today in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to obstruct justice through bribery and witness tampering, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee; Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Good morning, Secretary Price, and welcome to our Subcommittee for your first appropriations hearing. We meet during perilous times for the future of healthcare in our country. While the coverage of 24 million Americans was protected last week when Speaker Ryan pulled a bill from the floor that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act, the fate of their healthcare now lies in your Administration’s hands.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL MIGNANI, 51, of Bethel, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve announced its prescribed fire season beginning now through April. Prescribed fire is a preserve management tool used to promote a healthy prairie by removal of woody and non-native vegetation. Fire promotes native plant and animal diversity and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Burlington man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to trafficking three women for sex and threatening them with violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: MAR 28 - BOSTON - A Southbridge man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with being a felon in possession of a firearm, distributing drugs and attempted money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today called the Trump administration’s impending executive order canceling federal climate change planning and mitigation efforts and ending the federal coal leasing moratorium “a major self-inflicted wound" and pointed out that it would likely harm communities, in Appalachia and elsewhere, that the White House has promised to help.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN RHOADES, 32, formerly of Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: FBI Savannah Resident Agency/Chatham-Savannah Counter-Narcotics Operation Yields Multiple Arrests; Heroin, Marijuana, Ecstasy, Meth, Firearms, Currency Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Ai Inthavong Lopez, 37, of Amarillo, Texas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to robbing two banks in Framingham.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Shawn Brown pled guilty to one charge of mail fraud. Brown appeared today before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White. Sentencing is set for June 29, 2017.
