News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Carig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a second Burlington County, New Jersey, pharmacist was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a long-running conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense large quantities of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John Sherman Jumper, age 52, of Memphis, Tennessee was indicted on April 12, 2018, by a federal grand jury for embezzling $5.7 million from the pension benefit plan for employees of Snowshoe Refractories, a fire brick manufacturer located in Clarence, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Daveon Brantley, a/k/a Swalay, and Amber Brinson were sentenced today to 22 years, one month and nine years, seven months, respectively, for sex trafficking a 13-year-old girl after she ran away from home.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARIS SNOW, also known as “Eagle," 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in the armed robbery of a Hamden store in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Craig Rosen, 61, a wealthy businessman who, for four years, failed to file federal income tax returns or pay taxes, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller. Rosen pleaded guilty in November to four counts of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart and the Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, D. Christopher Evans announced today a major takedown of drug traffickers and related drug networks recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Huntington, as well as other narcotics, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kevin Labracio Frazier, 31, of Greenville, N.C., was found guilty today, by a federal jury sitting in Lexington, of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is partnering with area colleges and universities to help fill science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs with qualified candidates.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a report detailing short and long-term benefits the health care industry is receiving from Trump’s tax law. The report, “Trump Tax Law and the Health Care Industry: A $100 Billion Bonanza," highlights how health...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on reports of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) technical problems...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tomorrow, April 17, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will discuss Tax Day and how this is the last time Americans have to file under the old, broken tax code. Chairman Brady will also discuss the need for a new IRS and the bipartisan legislation the Committee has created to dramatically refocus the IRS back to its “taxpayer first " mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Four people from Ohio were named in a 31-count indictment for their roles in a conspiracy in which they filed more than 800 tax returns annually between 2012 and 2015 resulting in approximately $15 million in refunds being issued, a portion of which neither they nor their clients were entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Mexican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Juan Carlos Cervantes-Rivera, 30, a Mexican national residing in Chelsea, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announced today Little Bighorn Battlefield NM will modify its entrance fees to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs to enhance the visitor experience. Effective June 1st, 2018 the entrance fees to the park will be $25 per vehicle and $20 per motorcycle. An annual park pass will cost $80.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - Erosion and debris flows over the past two weeks have severely damaged the Martin Canyon road, about 3 miles east of Bellevue, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Richardson man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Michael Cipriano pleaded guilty Dec. 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of Atius Technology Institute (“Atius"), a privately owned, non-accredited school specializing in information technology courses, pleaded guilty today to bribing a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 225 during a 6-day period, ending Apr. 14 in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney sentenced Brandon Kenon Rogers, 31, of Grand Rapids, to 48 months in prison and ordered him to pay $128,746.00 in restitution for committing student loan, grant and tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Page is the 14th of 21 defendants charged in the case to plead guilty.
