News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane, Acting Special Agent in Charge Erin Joe of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found has found three men guilty of the kidnapping, robbery and the execution-style murder of Charles Teasley, 35, of West Hartford, in January 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent a letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Kevin McIntyre requesting an explanation for recent statements made by his Chief of Staff...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Brookline, MA - On Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site will celebrate Rose Marie “Rosemary" Kennedy’s 100th birthday. Rosemary was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, the same house as her brother John. She attended the Coolidge Corner School and was baptized...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 19-year-old Laredo woman has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of conspiracy to import methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Valeria Yazmin Santos-Perez pleaded guilty April 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Shaquan Brodie, 21, formerly of St. John, was sentenced today on an information that charged him with making fraudulent insurance claims against the United States Postal Service, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Ronald David Barker, 40, of Gulfport, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: CLEVELAND - While in Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday the unsealing of a 43-count indictment in federal court in Cleveland, which charges two Chinese citizens with operating a conspiracy that manufactured and shipped deadly fentanyl analogues and 250 other drugs to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jose Enrique Gonzalez, 48, of Lancaster, PA, was sentenced today by the Honorable Joseph F. Leeson to 20 years in federal prison and 8 years of supervised release for possession with intent to deliver heroin, carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, possession of an illegal firearm, and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: The former managing director and vice chairman of a Swiss bank pleaded guilty today for his role in a billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).U.S. Attorney Benjamin Greenberg of the Southern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Talon Barnes, age 27, of Wister, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Possession Of A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 5 years and up life imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Frank Miranda Carrillo pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing crystal methamphetamine and illegally possessing unregistered firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that “good things come in small packages." Today’s engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on Aug. 21, 2018, charging Shavonne Saxon, age 30, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Philip Dean, 62, a resident of Warren County, Missouri, pled guilty today to two felony charges, illegally distributing opiate medications and making a false statement to the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Felix Gomez, age 38, and Rosauro Morao, age 43, of Venezuela, both pled guilty on Aug. 22, 2018, in District Court to one count of Possession of a Controlled Substance on Board a Vessel, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: After Being Charged With Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a subordinate gang member pleaded guilty today and yesterday to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $20 million in funding for 64 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). With additional matching funds from the private sector, these projects will advance promising commercial energy technologies and strengthen partnerships between DOE’s national labs and private sector companies to deploy energy technologies to the marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal Anti-Violence Initiative Targeting Violent, Repeat Offenders.
