News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Dr. Dwight L. Baily Found Guilty of 63 Charges Including Drug Conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released her latest report in her ongoing investigation into dramatic increases in prescription drug prices. The report found that drug prices directly negotiated by the government could save the Medicare Part D program $2.8 billion in a single year on the 20 most commonly prescribed brand-name drugs alone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former registered investment advisor was arrested today on charges stemming from an investment fraud targeting elderly investors, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - There has been no decision to eliminate passenger screening at any federalized U.S. airport. TSA remains committed to its core mission to secure the Homeland by screening more than 2.5 million airline passengers per day. Every year as part of the federal budget process TSA is asked to discuss...
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Brazil - Electric Vehicle Sector. Brazil - Oil and Gas Auction. Mexico - Blockchain Technology. Ecuador - Productive Development Law. Resource Links.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that he has established an Affirmative Civil Enforcement (“ACE") Strike Force within the Office’s Civil Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shaheim Price, of Wintersville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken man was arrested for allegedly using his cell phone to take a picture underneath a girl’s dress, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: In Midland today, a federal judge sentenced Markinson Auguste, owner of YeYe Tax and Multi Services in Odessa, to two years in federal prison for a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Bank Robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $97 million in 12 projects (PDF, 104 KB) to provide or improve rural broadband service in 11 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: A Stow woman was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: An Ashtabula man was indicted in federal court on child pornography charges.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II Awards. SBIR and STTR programs are Congressionally-mandated efforts requiring federal agencies with large research and development (R&D) budgets to set aside...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Tammy Wilder, age 47, formerly of Barre, Vermont was sentenced on July 30, 2018, on a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery stemming from the fatal arson that occurred in Northfield, Vermont in December 2015. She was also ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: A dead beaver was recently found at the Lily Lake area in Rocky Mountain National Park and tested positive for tularemia. Tularemia was also detected in the Lily Lake area in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Dustin Caya, 34, Mount Hope, Wisconsin, is charged with possessing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms. The indictment alleges that on June 1, 2018, he possessed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Joshua Hansen, 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville to 360 months in prison for production of child pornography, 240 months for possession of child pornography, and 120 months for possession of an unregistered silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 30, 2018, Thomas Mario Costanzo, a.k.a. Morpheus Titania, 54, of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 41 months’ imprisonment, with credit for time served since his arrest in April 2017. Costanzo was found guilty by a federal jury on March 28, 2018, of money laundering.
