News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Is Second Member of Coney Island-Based Gang Indicted for the 2010 Murders of Their Rivals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Making Telephonic Threat to Shoot Congregants at the Islamic Center of Greater Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sewell, New Jersey, man and the former president of a linens supply company today admitted defrauding his employer of $245,000 that he disguised as legitimate business expenses, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas man was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Peoria, Illinois, on charges related to the production of child pornography involving four minor victims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Patrick D. Hansen of the Central District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Adrian Ray Salinas, 32, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Oct. 18, 2017, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Salinas was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 33 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Later this morning the Senate will vote on amendment I’m putting forward to strike what’s known as the “reconciliation instructions" from this budget proposal. The fact is, reconciliation is an on-ramp to the most partisan process around, but the history of successful tax reform is working in a bipartisan...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP committee, joined Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on the Senate floor today to announce a bipartisan group of 24 co-sponsors for their legislation to lower premiums and improve quality of care for patients and families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: BOISE - James Peirsol, 53, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 200 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine throughout the Treasure Valley, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge also sentenced Peirsol to serve ten years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Firearm by Prohibited Person was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Texas Man Indicted for “Sextorting" Minors in Illinois.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: No borders. All frontier. That’s the state of Wyoming in the nutshell. At least according to the motto of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents who call it home. With the closest border more than six hours away in Montana, those who...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Monday, Rowan James Kickinghorse Rhodes, 25, of Camp Verde, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 13 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by eight years of supervised release with sex offender conditions. Rhodes had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old man from Galveston County has entered a guilty plea to receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Shelby County woman to more than 24 years in prison for producing child pornography of an eight-year-old relative in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Anthony Shelton, 19, pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting a man because of the victim’s sexual orientation, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas, and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Dallas Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: A former eastern Kentucky social security disability lawyer and an accomplice were charged in a federal indictment with various offenses related to the lawyer’s escape from home confinement and his failure to appear for sentencing. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: David Daoud Wright, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 28, of Everett, Massachusetts, was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries; conspiracy to obstruct justice; and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: A Texas man was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Peoria, Illinois, on charges related to the production of child pornography involving four minor victims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment against an electrolytic capacitor manufacturer for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. The indictment, filed in the U.S. District ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today welcomed the release of the European Commission’s report on the first annual review of the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Framework). The report concludes that the Framework continues to provide an adequate level of privacy protection ...
