News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with Two South Florida Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: South African Doctor Took Money Meant to Promote Safer Childbirth.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Timothy Bojorquez, Jr., 29, of Plainview, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to illegal possession of firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Bojorquez was indicted in February by a federal grand in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to Trump abruptly firing FBI Director James Comey...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Hassayampa Field Office invites the public’s participation in the development of the Black Canyon Corridor Travel Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (TMP/EA). Two public meetings will be held on May 15th and May 16th.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.,-based compounding pharmacy with conspiracy in a multi-faceted scheme to generate prescriptions and defraud Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and one of its prescription drug administrators out of over $13 million...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Mazzariello, Jr., 62, and his son, Adam Mazzariello, 37, both of Alden, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to pay bribes to City of Buffalo police officers. James Mazzariello, Jr. also pleaded guilty plea to making and subscribing a false tax return. The defendants face a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Five recent cases net the recovery of hundreds of thousands of child pornography images, some found in the possession of previously convicted sex offenders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 8, 2017, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Brian Nelson Halsey, age 52, of Westminster, Maryland, formerly of Dundalk, Maryland to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a scheme to sell property stolen from shopping mall kiosks online.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 29, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement congratulating Moon Jae-in on his election to the presidency of the Republic of Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who falsely represented himself to be a successful securities trader and investor pleaded guilty today to stealing monies as part of an investment fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea resident was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing cocaine in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Fulton, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography after his lost cell phone, which contained images of child pornography, was turned in to law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions will give the opening remarks at a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 360 Heroin & Opioid Response Summit on THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017. The daylong event sponsored by the DEA, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and the University of Charleston School...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Reality television performer Abigale Lee Miller has been sentenced in federal court to one year and a day incarceration on her conviction of concealing assets from the bankruptcy court, and one count of failing to report an international currency transaction, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. In addition, the court imposed two years’ supervised release, a $120,000 money judgement and a $40,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Derek Pelker, age 27, of Wernersville, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on May 8, 2017, before United States District Judge John E. Jones, III, to three counts of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Former IRS Revenue Officer and Owner of Tax Consulting Business Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Impeding the Tax Laws.
