News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant, whose true identity remains unknown, lived under a stolen identity for 20 years, using it to obtain a passport, Social Security card, and to vote in the 2016 Presidential Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division announced today that Larry Mendoza, a former Revenue Agent of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, has pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act extortion charges in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee members today sent a series of letters to departments of six state governments, requesting information and staff briefings on allegations of patient brokering, when men and women have been recruited often to out-of-state facilities through offers for free travel, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Simone Aguilar, 45, of Vallejo, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. for a scheme to buy multiple vehicles using stolen identities, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rasim Ukoja, 51, of Morton Grove, Ill., was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 43 months in prison for robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the sentencing of DAVID SUMERA, age 31, of Roseland, Louisiana. SUMERA previously pled guilty to possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler today announced the sentencing of a woman for her role in a diabolical plot to murder a Hamilton County victim. Renee S. Perillo, 54, Glendale, California was sentenced to 27 years’ imprisonment today in federal court by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana has indicted SAMUEL TAYLOR, age 23, of Harvey; JONATHAN BAHAM, age 24, of New Orleans; and ARLANDER CELIUS, age 23, of Terrytown, for crimes associated with a string of armed robberies in Orleans and Jefferson parishes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota, beginning on Nov. 13, 2017, and concluding on Nov. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Trial has been scheduled in January for a Tolono, Ill., man, Joshua E. Lange, 39, indicted this week on charges of child sexual exploitation and possession of child pornography. Lange appeared for arraignment today in Urbana. Trial is scheduled for Jan. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Richard Kayian, Tracy Callihan, John Williams, and Rebecca Williams convicted of multiple charges resulting from Operation Leaving Las Vegas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found McKenzie Calixte guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government property and five counts of theft of government property. He faces a maximum of 5 years in prison on the conspiracy count and up to 10 years’ imprisonment for each of the theft counts. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alan William Weber, 37, of Clovis, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by possessing an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug trafficking charges.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: GIBSONTON, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Tampa Electric Co. and Critical Intervention Services, a security services provider, for $43,458 in total proposed penalties, following a release of anhydrous ammonia - a chemical refrigerant - at its Gibsonton facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Agustin Martinez, age 35, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
Release: Since Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue traveled to Beijing in June to celebrate the reopening of the Chinese market to U.S. beef, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has been working to capitalize on new export opportunities for the U.S. beef industry. This week, the FAS Cochran Fellowship Program introduced Chinese customers to the high quality, diversity and value of U.S. beef products.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for action from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on what it will do to process veterans’ disability appeals faster. The agency has hundreds of thousands of pending appeals, and veterans often wait over three years before receiving a decision from the VA.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 77-year-old Montgomery man has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions on two counts related to an investment fraud scheme involving more than 50 victims and more than $5 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Allan George Cooper pleaded guilty May 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Nineteen Shots Fired at Victim and His Friends.
