News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of embezzling from a federally insured bank, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 4, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its efforts to address the nutrition needs of Puerto Rican residents affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Working closely with federal partners, USDA has supported efforts in Puerto Rico since the Presidential Disaster Declaration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Rocky E. Griffith, 63, of Destin, Florida, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison and ordered to pay $78,804 in restitution to the IRS. In May 2017, he pled guilty to failure to file tax returns. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Ramon Orlando Alvarenga-Rodriguez was sentenced, in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Illegal Re-entry by a Previously Deported Alien, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs sentenced Alvarenga-Rodriguez to 4 months imprisonment and a $100.00 special assessment.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) launched a new web page this week to showcase S&T projects and technology solutions that impact the Homeland Security mission. The Mobilizing ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release FEMA News Desk Phone: 202-646-3272 WASHINGTON – As Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long visits Puerto Rico for the third time since Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the islands, focus remains on making roads accessible, and providing emergency ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release FEMA News Desk Phone: 202-646-3272 WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), through its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., regional offices in Denton, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, and liaisons at the National Hurricane Center in Florida, is monitoring ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its efforts to address the nutrition needs of Puerto Rican residents affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Working closely with federal partners, USDA has supported efforts in Puerto Rico since the Presidential Disaster Declaration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: A real estate investor was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today released statistics on the impact of Executive Order (EO) 13767: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, which called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to assign immigration judges to immigration detention facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Three Miami-Dade County, Florida residents, Ali Caby, aka “Alex Caby,” 40, Arash Caby, aka “Axel Caby,” 43, and Marjan Caby, 34, pleaded guilty on Oct. 3 to Count 1 of an Indictment charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States and to illegally export aviation parts and equipment to Syria ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it reached an agreement with the city of New Albany, Indiana (New Albany), to resolve its lawsuit alleging that the New Albany Police Department and Merit Commission discriminated against an employee on the basis of his disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Former Georgia prison guard Edgar Daniel Johnson, 51, pleaded guilty on Monday to sexually assaulting three female inmates at the Emanuel Women’s Facility in Swainsboro, Georgia, and to coercing the women to help him cover up the assaults. Johnson also pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat at Elba Island ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Michigan returned an indictment today charging the owner of a tax return preparation business with 26 counts of preparing fraudulent tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: A federal court in Madison, Wisconsin, ordered Spectrum Brands Inc., a large consumer products distributor, to pay $1.9 million in civil penalties for failing to timely report dangerously defective Black & Decker SpaceMaker coffee carafes and for continuing to distribute the carafes following a recall, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Corey Amundson, who also serves as the Acting Executive Director of the National Center for Disaster Fraud, announced today that Joe W. Jones, 65, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to theft of $13,807 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds in relation to the 2016 Baton Rouge flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: An alleged member of Chicago’s criminal street gang, the Latin Dragons, has been charged with murder in aid of racketeering, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: A retired U.S. Army colonel was charged in an indictment filed today for his alleged role in a foreign bribery and money laundering scheme in connection with a planned $84 million port development project in Haiti.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 4, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
