News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fredericksburg man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for running a drug trafficking conspiracy and illegally dealing over 200 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fredericksburg man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for running a drug trafficking conspiracy and illegally dealing over 200 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL BONILLA, 30, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. In pleading guilty, BONILLA also acknowledged that he failed to register as a sex offender in Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Aug. 29, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 21-count superseding indictment charging ROBERT V. MATTHEWS, 60, LESLIE R. EVANS, 71, and MARIA MATTHEWS, also known as “Mia Matthews," 48, all of Palm Beach, Florida, with various offenses stemming from a scheme that defrauded foreign investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Morgan City man was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for failing to report more than $250,000 in income on his 2012 tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was charged today with allegedly soliciting and accepting cash payments from brothel owners in exchange for protecting the brothels from police action and other matters, and for failing to report those cash payments on his personal federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Peever, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann sentenced a Summit, South Dakota, man convicted of sexual abuse of a child on Aug. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, Seth Willis Pickering, 38, of Leicester, N.C. was ordered to serve life in prison for killing his daughter, Lila Pickering, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the sentencing hearing.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the decision by a federal judge to place a 14-day hold on public grizzly bear hunts in Wyoming and Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Yesterday, Donald Rowley, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Robin L. Rosenberg to 168 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to possessing and receiving child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission will meet at Moore Hall at the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor at 1 - 3 p.m. on Monday Sept. 10, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and will include an opportunity for public comments.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brandon Washington, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, between five and 15 kilograms of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Michael C. Painter, age 32, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maxim Levin, 40, of Amherst, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to filing a false tax return. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former president of a Kentucky-based corporation and a political consultant were both indicted today for using corporate funds to make contributions to the campaign of a candidate for U.S. Senate and for causing the concealment of these contributions from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A federal grand jury indicted current Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson for allegedly devising a scheme to steal thousands of dollars in campaign contributions-spending them on personal luxuries and expenses-and then falsifying state campaign finance reports and tax filings as part of the scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) thanks the climbing community for helping to ensure a successful nesting season for resident peregrine falcons and other raptors within Indian Creek. In March, the BLM asked climbers to voluntarily avoid climbing on routes near known historic nest...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Edgar Moreno-Ramirez, 27, of Mexico City, Mexico, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann on his plea of guilty to the charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and more than 1 kilogram of heroin and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following joint statement after President Trump signed an executive order to strengthen retirement security...
