News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston to 21 years in prison on kidnapping and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been found guilty of child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Jean David Jules (33, citizen of Haiti) guilty of two counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud. Three co-defendants, Donte Sherrick Harris (30, Kissimmee), Jason Tyiwuan Green (22, Orlando), and Jonathan Wayne Thorne (27, Kissimmee), previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting wire fraud. In addition, six others have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to the same fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - The Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will remain closed through Fri., Aug. 24 due to Hurricane Lane.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Guilherme Alves De Melo (Alves), age 32, a citizen of Brazil, pled guilty today to one count of intimidating a flight crew member and flight attendants, thereby lessening or interfering with their ability to perform their duties, in violation of federal law. The charge was contained in an Indictment returned July 25, 2018, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that NATHANIEL RAINEY, a/k/a “Nathan Lee," a/k/a “Nathaniel Rainie," a/k/a “Nathaniel Palmore," age 60, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on Aug. 22, 2018 to one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released three wind energy market reports demonstrating that as wind installations continue across the country and offshore wind projects move beyond the planning process, technology costs and wind energy prices continue to fall. The reports cover three market sectors: land-based utility scale, distributed, and offshore wind.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Los Angeles man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with a conspiracy to launder funds derived from Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SEAN BRIGGS, a/k/a “Big Sean," a/k/a “Big C," age 33, was sentenced today to 60 months imprisonment for one count of Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking crime in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Looking for Suspected Serial Bank Robber in Albuquerque.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on reports that Secretary DeVos is considering allowing states to use a grant program in the Every Student Succeeds Act to purchase guns for teachers and educators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced ADRIAN C. HAMMOND, JR., age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 12 months and one day in federal prison following his convictions for bank fraud, money laundering and obstructing the administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - Robert Craig Smith, 39, of Missoula, was sentenced today to a total of 120 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Chief United States District Judge Dana L. Christensen sentenced Smith to 60 months for each count, to run consecutively.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - 29 individuals have been charged with federal and state drug, firearms, and counterfeiting offenses as part of federal investigations in Brockton and Boston. The cases were brought as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhood Initiative (PSN), which aims to bring together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Marvin Dennis and Malik Martinez have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for committing drug trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: ANDREA HARRISON, age 57, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged by a federal grand jury in a one-count indictment for false statements in relation to programs under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Comprehensive drug investigation resulted in convictions of nearly a dozen defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Reliant to Pay $6.1 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations That it Paid Kickbacks to Nursing Homes for Rehabilitation Therapy Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Correctional Officer Dario Quirumbay Accepted a Bribe from a Family Member of a Federal Inmate in Exchange for Smuggling Cellphones into the Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Nine people, most from Toledo, were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic fentanyl.
