News from August 2018
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a hearing on U.S.-Russia relations. The hearing is the second in a series examining U.S. policy toward Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc., to resolve violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act and its implementing regulations at CVS Pharmacy locations throughout the Northern District of Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: DTO Imported Large Quantities of Heroin, Methamphetamine and Cocaine from Mexico and Distributed the Drugs in New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The alleged leader of a Boston-based heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Claude Sloan was on Supervised Release for a Previous Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David M. Hoovler, the Orange County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and John Ewanciw, the Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Jean McIntosh, 38, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 40 years imprisonment by United States District Judge Cynthia Rufe. McIntosh previously pleaded guilty to a multi-count indictment arising from the defendant’s...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) offers students three graduate credits in mechanical engineering for completing their summer internships.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - A 35-year-old Channelview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician EWALD J. ANTOINE was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to one year and one day in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory site is helping protect the environment, reduce energy costs, and save taxpayer funds by replacing two 10,000-pound “chillers" that cool the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s (AMWTP) treatment facility and its associated equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in Jersey City, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - James Andrew Smith, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 168 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician EWALD J. ANTOINE was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to one year and one day in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Darin Devon Hurd, age 26, of Warsaw, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), and Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, announced that a federal grand jury in White Plains...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Tulsa, Okla.- Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced that Tulsa is one of five cities selected to the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) as the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced a proposed reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. The proposal decreases manufacturing quotas for the six most frequently misused opioids for 2019 by an average ten percent as compared to the 2018 amount.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: On Aug. 15, 2018, Erin K. Wright, a/k/a "Erin Shannon," "Erin Tennyson," and "Erin Atchison," 48, of Creal Springs, was sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine-related offenses, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Wright, who had...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida supports the proposal from the Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reduce controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent with President Trump’s “Safe...
