News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating twenty minutes, a federal jury of twelve men and women found Leonard Gibbons guilty of five counts of violating federal bank robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Rickey Dale Sorrells, 62, of Dallas, has been charged for his role in receiving more than $3 million in bribe and kickback payments to help secure over $70 million in contracts, agreements, and orders, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH MELI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 78 months in prison by the Honorable Kimba M. Wood. Between 2015 and 2017, MELI solicited approximately $100 million in investments from 130...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Daniel Hunter, age 54, of Enfield, Connecticut, pled guilty today to robbing two Dollar Tree stores in May 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) submitted a that reviews the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) Program and includes feedback from a broad range of stakeholders. The program gets its authority through the LMR Act of 1999, which must be reauthorized by Congress every five years, and the most recent reauthorization was in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Houston man was sentenced Monday to three years and seven months in prison for conspiring with other Texas residents to steal more than $230,000 at Louisiana casinos using unauthorized credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the guilty plea of JULIE ANN LEE, 53, former controller of the Town & Country Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, for operating a million dollar embezzlement scheme. LEE, who was indicted on Aug. 23, 2017, entered her guilty plea yesterday before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Colin Stewart, age 41, of Elgin, Quebec, Canada, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Damion Christopher Alexander Brown, 42, a Jamaican National residing in Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, and bribery of a public official. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 5 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years in prison and a $5,000,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Bossier City man was sentenced Monday to seven years and three months in prison for transporting methamphetamine from Dallas to the Shreveport/Bossier City area.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX), and Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) sent a letter to President Trump calling for the nomination of a Commissioner for the Social Security Administration (SSA), a position which has been vacant for over five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Rhode Island jewelry distributor who admitted to orchestrating a long-running fraud scheme that defrauded a debtor finance company of more than $3.6 million dollars was sentenced on Monday to 48 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: The Bodie Island and Cape Hatteras Lighthouses will be open for climbing this year from Friday, April 20 through Monday, October 8.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho-The Bureau of Land Management is pleased to announce an opportunity to be the first Artist-in-Residence for the South Fork of the Snake River. The program offers artists the opportunity to pursue their art, inspired by the majesty of this unique eastern Idaho river.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Harrison, of Pine Grove, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: v. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Clinton, Mo., man has been indicted in a $4.7 million investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded 89 investors who believed they were purchasing cattle for resale at a profit. Cameron J. Hager, 42, of Clinton, was charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) has saved more than $2.6 million by employing a new method to construct and maintain tanks that hold water for fire suppression.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty today in federal court to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Michael B. Stuart. Avante Anthony Jones, age 22, of South Park Road, pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine. United States Attorney Stuart gave credit to the joint investigation conducted by DEA, the U.S. 119 Drug Task Force, and the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) for the successful prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason Weller, 34, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 32 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Weller pleaded guilty to this charge on March 28, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting that the Committee hold hearings into whether the Trump Administration has adequate controls in place to protect taxpayer funds from waste, fraud, and abuse.
