News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Stanislav “Steven" Yelizarov, age 28, of Pikesville, Maryland, to twenty years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for one count of Use, Carry and Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence Causing the Death of Another.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Defendant Faces Mandatory Minimum of 20 Years of Incarceration.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Starting on Tuesday May 1 the Cadillac Mountain Summit Road will be closed to all traffic, including bicyclists, until Thursday May 3 to complete the paving of parking areas.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $34.5 million in funding to support building technology research and development (R&D). Buildings are the single largest energy-consuming sector in the U.S. economy, representing approximately 75% of the nation’s electricity...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on “Do Not Call: Combatting Robocall and Caller ID Spoofing:"

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native America Women.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
Release: Man cited by the police on a weapons violation.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Two Businessmen Charged With Conspiring to Commit Economic Espionage for Benefit of Chinese Manufacturing Company.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Identity Theft Spree Leads to More Than Three Years in Prison for Each.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former business manager of a local museum pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to embezzling funds from the museum that employed her.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Nelli Kesoyan, 46, of Rancho Cordova, was sentenced today to four years and nine months in prison for conspiring to make false statements in a matter related to naturalization and citizenship and to obstruct, impede, or influence a pending agency proceeding, and for falsifying government records, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on April 19, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging JOSE DEL CARMEN HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ, 42, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Hartford, with one count of illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-FBI Director Christopher Wray presented Danny Ludeman with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award at a national ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2018. Mr. Ludeman is one of 57 remarkable individuals or organizations across the country being honored...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democrats released a series of legislative proposals to address abusive robocall practices today. The Democrats announced one bill and two discussion drafts during a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing this morning on Combatting Robocalls and Caller ID Spoofing.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - William Salazar, 42 years old, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by District Court Judge Philip Simon on his plea of guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering activity, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jerry Johnson, Jr., 56, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a second-degree murder charge. Johnson entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends that he be sentenced to a prison term within the range of 129 to 161 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that NEW ERA REHABILITATION CENTER, DR. EBENEZER KOLADE and DR. CHRISTINA KOLADE have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which they will pay $1,378,533 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Thomas A. Burnell, age 36, of Plattsburgh, New York, pleaded guilty today to selling heroin mixed with fentanyl that caused the death of a customer. Burnell separately pleaded guilty today to possessing a weapon while incarcerated as a federal inmate at the Clinton County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - John Lowell Goff, Jr. (46, Ruskin) today pleaded guilty to four counts of bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. His co-defendant, Lemuel Tony Davis (43, Eufala, Alabama), previously pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Sentencing dates have not yet been set.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Two Mexican citizens previously deported multiple times were charged with illegally reentering the United States.