News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging JUAN CHAVEZ-MORALES, age 42, of Mexico, GUADALUPE VASQUEZ, age 34, of Mexico, and VICTOR RODOLFO RIOS-LOPEZ, age 30, of Mexico, with illegal reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 22, 2018 - Two Nashville, Tennessee men pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court, to a series of violent crimes committed in and around the J.C. Napier neighborhood, including crimes that resulted in the murders of two individuals, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against moving forward on Medicaid waivers submitted by Kentucky and other states that violate the purpose of the Medicaid program by restricting care and creating barriers for Americans who count on the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Dana Point man has been charged in a recently unsealed indictment with participating in a conspiracy to procure and illegally ship export-controlled computer servers to Iran.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against moving forward on Medicaid waivers submitted by Kentucky and other states that violate the purpose of the Medicaid program by restricting care and creating barriers for Americans who count on the program.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against moving forward on Medicaid waivers submitted by Kentucky and other states that violate the purpose of the Medicaid program by restricting care and creating barriers for Americans who count on the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael Bernier, age 34, from East Montpelier, Vermont, pleaded not guilty today to firearms charges before United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy in Burlington. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alfredo Juarez Perez, also known as Octavio Zambrano, 47, Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison for illegally reentering...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ronald L. Coleman, age 70, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2018, to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Coleman has four previous federal convictions-one for mail fraud and three for access device fraud and related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ghobad Ghasempour, 38, a Canadian national, was sentenced on Aug. 20, in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to unlawfully export U.S. goods to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Virginia State Police Special Agent, formerly assigned to the Tazewell County High Intensity Drug Task Force, was arrested this morning on a federal criminal complaint charging him with lying to a federal agent. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Special Agent in Charge Adam S. Lee of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RINA PAOLA CONDE GARCIA, age 37, a citizen of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to a two-count indictment for making false statements on a passport application, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1542, and for illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: FBI, CMPD, and CMS Launch Joint Awareness Campaign to Warn Everyone to #ThinkBeforeYouPost.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who admitted to using file sharing applications to receive more than 600 images of toddlers and children engaged in sexually explicit conduct was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: FBI, WCPSS, and Wake County Law Enforcement Agencies Launch Joint Awareness Campaign to Warn Everyone to #ThinkBeforeYouPost.
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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed two Salvadoran nationals Aug 22; one is wanted for homicide and the other for aggravated theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Weber, 62, of Snyder, NY, was convicted after a jury trial of two counts of making and subscribing a false tax return. The charges carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today announced a public meeting of the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee.
By State Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings and Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern with the recent appointment of Brian Hook to lead the State Department’s...
