News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Felipe Martinez-Rios, age 27, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (3 months in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Pittsburgh police sergeant was sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $900.23 in restitution, for deprivation of rights under color of law, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced GREGORY D. CHISOLM, age 53, of New Orleans, to 188 months, or fifteen and a half years, in federal prison for two bank robberies and an attempted robbery of a casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago investment advisor stole more than $5 million from several clients, including his elderly in-laws, and used some of the cash on a mortgage and a luxury automobile, according to federal criminal charges filed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RONY NOE DIAZ-MAZARIEGOS, age 27, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information for Illegal use of a Social Security Number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: In Midland yesterday, a federal judge sentenced a former bookkeeper to 60 months in federal prison for stealing over $2 Million from a local businessman announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, gave remarks on Senate Republican efforts to paper over devastating health changes added to the partisan tax reform bill by including the bipartisan Alexander-Murray stabilization legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Robbers Posed as Construction Workers, Pistol-Whipped Store Owner, Then Fled Into Subway Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced JAMES EARL SUTTON, 55, of Kinston, NC to 108 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jamillah Thompson was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison and ordered to pay $85,616 in restitution for conspiring to file false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Judge, following Thompson’s plea of guilty to the charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: NOV. 15, 2017 - The rate at which renters moved in 2017 was at a historic low of 21.7 percent, compared to 35.2 percent in 1988, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released today from the Current Population Survey. However, renters still moved at a higher rate than owners (21.7 percent compared with 5.5 percent, respectively).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA NOV 18 TO DEC 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Darryl Odom was arrested in connection with the May 25, 2017 armed robbery of Court Street Jewelers located at 60 Court Street in Brooklyn, New York. Odom and three coconspirators who were previously arrested - Kenneth Davis, Shaka Davis and Lashawn Williams - are charged in a superseding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Victoria Louise Whidden (26, Fort Myers) guilty of two counts of providing a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of nine new U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). AGAC was created in 1973 and reports to the Attorney General through the Deputy Attorney General. AGAC represents the U.S. Attorneys and provides advice and counsel to the Attorney General on matters of policy, procedure, and management impacting the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: H.R. 170, the “Protect and Grow American Jobs Act," as introduced, would increase the wage level that H-1B dependent employers must pay to avoid jumping through certain hoops in the H-1B immigrant visa program. These are employers who heavily rely on foreign workers and have 15 percent or more of their workforce on H-1B visas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced JAMES EARL SUTTON, 55, of Kinston, NC to 108 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Judith Ardolino, 54, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 60 months in federal prison for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Jose Manuel Sanchez-Zapien (Sanchez), 38, a citizen of Mexico and resident of Dos Palos, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana in the Sequoia National Forest, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
