News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus loan broker pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to operating a scheme that defrauded small businesses from across the country in connection with their efforts to obtain business loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Tampa, Fla., man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former Alabama legislator pleaded guilty today in federal court to accepting bribes from a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in exchange for advocating their employers’ opposition to EPA actions in North Birmingham. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey announced the plea.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 7, 2017 - Families affected by Hurricane Harvey will soon be able to receive food packages containing nutritious, high-quality foods--100 percent grown and produced on farms in the U.S.--known as USDA Foods, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Texas Department of Agriculture announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on September 7, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a three-count indictment charging Jonathan Breslin, 33, of Westerly, with receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Defendant is currently on state probation following conviction for similar offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Jose Melendez-Tarin, 31, formerly of Greeley, Colorado, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on September 7, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Melendez-Tarin was arrested in Mexico City, Mexico and extradited to the United States. He received...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is requesting answers from top government agencies on their efforts to track and reduce improper payments. Recently released reports detailed multiple ways that agencies failed to follow requirements to cut down on possible wasteful spending.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, September 7, 2017, President Donald J. Trump announced that he has nominated Ryan W. Bounds to serve as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If confirmed, Bounds will fill a vacancy created when Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain assumed senior status.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on September 5, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: National Science Foundation (“NSF") is a United States agency created to support basic scientific research by providing grants, to individuals, businesses, academic and nonprofit institutions. Scott Thompson, d/b/a as Isosceles, LLC., submitted a grant proposal to study solar cells and develop technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for using his e-mail and instant messaging accounts to receive images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Atlanta Murder Fugitives Arrested in San Antonio, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Erdal Kuyumcu, the chief executive officer of Global Metallurgy, LLC, based in Woodside, New York, was sentenced to 57 months in prison following his June 14, 2016 guilty plea to conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by exporting specialty metals from the United States to Iran. The sentencing proceeding was held before Chief United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on September 5, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a two-count indictment charging two men from Florida with conspiring to traffic cocaine in connection with the seizure by law enforcement of more than 19 kilograms of cocaine allegedly shipped to Rhode Island from Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Assault on a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James LaRock, II, 42, Seneca Falls, NY, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return before the U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
