News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Gayle McNamara, 57, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Danzavious Dolphus, of Harper Woods, Michigan, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for a drug distribution conviction, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin and Acting Commissioner Kautter...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Harry Meir Mimoun Amar, a resident and citizen of Israel and Morocco, was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for taking part in an international conspiracy to trick mid-level corporate employees into wiring millions of dollars to bank accounts under the control of those in the criminal enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Miguel Arias Velasquez, 22, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Totowa, New Jersey, man today admitted knowingly possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon and trying to bring a loaded gun onto a plane, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In response to a request from Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Donald McEachin (D-Va.), Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.), Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), the Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) yesterday afternoon released...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation announced today the selection of approximately $2 million in Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency grants for Fiscal Year 2018. Combined with local cost-share contributions, approximately $4 million in water management improvement projects will be implemented during the next 24 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Roger Garfield Campbell, of Kingston, Jamaica, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with visa fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old former employee of BP America Inc. has been ordered to federal prison for attempting to extort money from the company, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. George Koutsostamatis pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud April 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and David E. Beach, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (“USSS"), announced charges today against six individuals in a fraud conspiracy from December 2017 through...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SAMIR FATTAH, 55, of Oxford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to three months of imprisonment, three months of home confinement and one year of supervised release for filing false tax returns.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing her longstanding bipartisan work to ensure unaccompanied immigrant children are properly accounted for and kept safe as they go through the immigration process, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill sharply questioned Administration officials today after a bipartisan Senate investigation found a lack of progress.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Two “Rip Crew" affiliates head to prison
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the guilty plea of CHAD LEE MONSON, 46, for illegally possessing machine guns, pipe bombs, and silencers. MONSON, who was indicted on June 5, 2018, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A sentencing hearing is yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former bank employee has been ordered to prison for her admissions of she stealing more than $1 million from customer accounts, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Cynthia Luna Rodriguez, 45, pleaded guilty Jan. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jerry Lyle Andrews Jr., 35, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr., to five years in prison for being a felon in possession a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHELL BEACH SEAFOOD CO., LLC (“SHELL BEACH SEAFOOD"), a company based in St. Bernard, Louisiana, was sentenced today to a fine of $7,500.00, one-year probation and a special assessment of $125 for the illegal sale of blue crabs, in violation of the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years’ imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Cloverdale man spray-painted Nazi flags and started fire on Synagogue property.
