News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Two former Lucas County corrections officers were indicted in federal court for accepting bribes in return for smuggling contraband items into inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A jury has convicted Kevin R. Foster, 42, of Montclair, N.J., of 16 charges related to a fraud scheme. He was found guilty of wire fraud, money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEV. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released updated 5-year probability-based planning model projections for future Colorado River system conditions, which underscore the ongoing impact of record dry conditions across the basin. With spring and summer inflow to Lake Powell at only 36 percent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ellis Arkie Sago, 24, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to serve ten months in custody, five of which are to be served in prison and the remaining five in a halfway house, for assaulting a federal officer. Sago will be on supervised release after completing his custodial sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - David Mitchell Murray of Memphis has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin resulting in death. Also indicted as a co-defendant in this case is Glenda Aldape, 48, of Cordova. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea and indictment today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that the American Falls Reservoir west boat ramp construction project will resume following the Labor Day weekend. The ramp will be closed to the public, including all boater and angler traffic, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 4 and will re-open in mid-October.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jevar Sturridge, age 25, and a citizen of Jamaica residing in Massena, New York, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for possessing heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine with the intent to distribute them, and for possessing a loaded handgun and shotgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited The Produce Connection Inc., operating out of Miami, Fla., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Akbar Fard (54, formerly of Tampa) to three years in federal prison for wire fraud. The court also ordered Fard to forfeit $ 1,472,082, proceeds which are traceable to of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Three Mexican Nationals illegally residing in Louisville, Ky. were sentenced today, by U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. A federal jury found Imanol Pineda Penaloza, 37, and Efrain Villa Villanueva, 24...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that it settled a lawsuit against the Village of Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, alleging that it violated the Fair Housing Act when it refused to approve a low-income housing development in response to race-based community opposition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RUFUS HOWELL, 40, last residing in Manchester, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to gun possession and heroin distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that Ricki A. Mahkimetas, Jr. (age: 25), of Keshena, was sentenced on Aug. 22, 2018 to 200 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release after a conviction for Abusive Sexual Contact on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The sentence was the result of a June 1, 2018, guilty plea before Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Raymond Erfort has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: The former head of the City of Cleveland’s demolition department was charged in federal court with soliciting and accepting bribes from contractors in exchange for preferential treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned an indictment charging Jessica A. Browning, 44, of Ullin, Illinois (Pulaski County), with two counts of bankruptcy fraud, announced Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Browning was indicted as part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s continuing effort to crackdown on those who commit fraud in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Antwan Crossland, 21, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to possessing counterfeit currency. Crossland appeared this afternoon before United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey. Sentencing is set for Nov. 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Ryan Edward Offineer, age 41, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Possession Of Certain Material Involving The Sexual Exploitation Of Minors, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the Treasury Department released new regulations focused on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former operator of a local construction company, Patriot Company, Inc., was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a “rent-a-vet" scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $13.7 million in federal contracts.
