News from August 2018
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced that James E. Hubbard, Dawn DeBerry Stump, and Dan Michael Berkovitz were confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Arthur Larange Lee Jr., 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville to 327 months in prison for sex trafficking of an adult, and 60 months each for two counts of use of interstate commerce to commit prostitution. Each count is...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Originally Indicted for Stalking, Illegal Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: ** MEDIA ADVISORY **. WHAT: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry will make an announcement regarding a partnership between the National Center for Disaster Fraud and the National Association of Attorneys General. WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 at 9:00...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four Senate Democrats today asked the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to begin reporting the harmful consequences of junk insurance plans as insurers submit applications to sell the plans to consumers this fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: The husband and wife co-owners of a Miami pain management clinic and a patient recruiter pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances for their participation in a scheme to unlawfully distribute thousands of pills of oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Carlsbad Field Office will host nine public meetings to provide information and answer questions related to the Carlsbad Draft Resources Management Plan (RMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This is part of the ongoing 90-day public comment period that began Aug. 3, 2018, with the publication of a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dashawn Anthony Starnes, 27, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 204 months in prison for four charges related to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Ocala, FL - A federal jury has found Juan Pablo Malagon-Alvarez (40), Jose Lucio Mendoza-Servin (35), and Aurelio Gomez-Andrade (40), all of Ocala, guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. Each faces a minimum mandatory of 10 years, and up to life...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An architect who worked for Payless ShoeSource was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $425,000 in restitution for defrauding the company, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment on the Delta Irrigation Canal Salinity Control Piping Project located in Delta County, Colorado. The project would replace approximately 6.1 miles of open irrigation ditch with buried pipe. The purpose of the project is to prevent seepage and reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Brown, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to selling oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men have been ordered to prison after DNA found in seminal fluid identifies them in connection to the armed robbery of a Houston area massage parlor, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Javian Chapman, 20, and Joseph Berzat, 21, both of Houston, pleaded guilty in March 2018 to two counts of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery and one count of aiding and abetting the discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to today's U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Inspector General's report on its revised plan for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced today the arrest of Michael Mora, 35, of Miami, Florida, on a criminal complaint charging him with making hoax bomb threats, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e). Mora had his initial appearance today in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Seeking Information: Hat Trick Bandit Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, following more than three weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts against Leonid “Lenny" Gershman and Aleksey Tsvetkov on charges of racketeering, including predicate acts of illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, arson and marijuana distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Extortion Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Manhattan Beach, California woman of eight counts of wire fraud yesterday, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. The convictions followed a week-long trial in front of U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Announces Deferred Prosecution Agreement With Basler Kantonalbank.
