News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William M. McSwain, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, has named the office’s new senior executive leadership team.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - In a ceremony held today at the Boise Wyndham Garden Hotel, two prestigious awards were given to BLM Idaho wildland fire employees. The U.S. Department of the Interior Valor Award was granted to eight Boise District firefighters for their emergency response during a fatal fire engine accident.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In response to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report finding that recent reassignments of senior, career officials at DOI were carried out, “without a written plan or clear criteria," and that appeared to punish employees that worked on...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Charles Nevotney Bolton, 33, of Biloxi, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to an indictment charging him as a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U. S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Heather Lee Kussoff (31, Cape Coral) with making a false statement to a federal law enforcement agency. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: CEO Used Forged Contracts to Induce Two New York-Based Investment Companies To Invest Over $250 Million in the Fiber Optic Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man from Maurice was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for submitting false receipts in order to draw more than $1.2 million from a bank line of credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency task force...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal judge has found a 44-year-old legal permanent resident who lived in Sugar Land guilty of receipt, access with intent to view and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. U.S. District Judge Alfred H. Bennett found Jacinto Lopez-Toledo guilty on Dec. 12, 2017, following two days of trial.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure convened a legislative markup and unanimously approved the following measures that span a wide range of important issue areas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Atlanta - Darrick Lawrence, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 16 years, six months in prison for trafficking cocaine. Lawrence also faces charges in Virginia for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A search of Lawrence’s Decatur, Georgia home resulted in the recovery of cocaine, two high-powered rifles, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Six members of a drug trafficking organization were arrested this week as part of a multi-agency investigation, which included the seizure of multiple pounds of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine in the Central Valley, Alaska, and Tacoma, Washington, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: OXFORD, MS - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against John Allan Trotter, 36, of Sacramento, charging him with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: As part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) national efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis, the Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit (IFPCU) and the Cyber Crimes Center (C3) recently partnered together to offer advanced training focused on exploiting and dismantling darknet marketplaces and illicit payment networks associated with fentanyl smuggling and their distribution organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Michael Krepp, 57, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Sirgusa. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 120 months in prison and a maximum penalty of 240 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Four people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a marijuana grow and distribution ring in which nearly 1,600 plants and numerous firearms were seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Payments Are the Second Distribution in a Series of Payments That Together Will Constitute the Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As the tax filing season comes to an end, federal authorities are reminding members of the public of their obligation to timely file accurate tax documents - and that evading taxes or defrauding the Internal Revenue Service can led to substantial fines, penalties and prison sentences.
