News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that THANH TRAN, age 41, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty to one count of possession with the intent to distribute marijuana. As a result of his conviction, TRAN faces a significant term of imprisonment, fine, and a period of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: The Office of Fossil Energy has announced $150,000 in funding for a project selected under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls ) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Individual Who May Have Information Regarding the Identity of a Child Sexual Assault Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven today sentenced Alejo Tronco-Diaz (52, Lakeland) to 12 months and one day in federal prison for conspiracy to commit federal program theft. As part of his sentence, Tronco-Diaz was also ordered to pay $295,891.65 in restitution. The court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $373,602.42, representing the total proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Krishna Viramontes was sentenced today to 204 months in prison for conspiring to produce and possessing child pornography, as well as extortion, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than 32 years in federal prison for armed robberies of Dollar Tree stores in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMEL GODDARD, a/k/a “Payroll," was sentenced today by United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska to 292 months in prison for his role as the leader of a sex trafficking conspiracy. GODDARD pled guilty on Feb. 26, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Travis Wilmoth, age 31, of Fayetteville, North Carolina pleaded guilty today to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Wilmoth admitted that he traveled from North Carolina to Maryland to engage in sexually explicit conduct with a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: “Norman Seabrook was once one of the most powerful union leaders in this City. Today he stands convicted of taking a $60,000 bribe to invest $20 million of his union members’ money in a fund that ultimately went belly-up, losing $19 million. Seabrook’s is the fifth major public corruption conviction...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: The Medgar and Myrlie Evers House is the newest site on the Civil Rights Network to Freedom. Created in 2017, the newly established program recognizes properties associated with the civil rights movement from 1939 to 1968. Eligible properties must be listed or eligible for listing in the National Register...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Grace M. Carducci, who is handling the civil case, the complaint seeks the forfeiture of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KALIQUE HARDIN, age 22, of Dallas Texas, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to three counts of an indictment charging him with, respectively, conspiracy to distribute heroin; possession of heroin with intent to distribute;...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Toms River man today admitted distributing images of child sexual abuse over a social media application, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI’s Pascagoula Safe Streets Task Force arrested five south Mississippi men on federal drug trafficking charges on Monday and Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Leon Little, 38, of Cherry Hill, NJ, was sentenced today by the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe to 408 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for his role as the leader of a large scale oxycodone pill conspiracy that caused nearly...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn off by an explosion while conducting an anti-submarine patrol. Seventy-one U.S. Navy Sailors were lost in the aftermath of the blast, during a brutal and largely overlooked early campaign of World War II.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was charged in federal court today with stealing dozens of firearms from an Independence, Mo., gun store.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of aiding or assisting in the preparation or filing of false federal income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the need to modernize and strengthen the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The current and former owners of Giovanni’s Roast Beef & Pizza in Peabody were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with skimming cash receipts from Giovanni’s and failing to report the cash on their tax returns, thereby avoiding the payment of about $550,000 in taxes.
