News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A former congressional staffer was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $800,000 in restitution, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a multi-year scheme to defraud charitable donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars and secretly to funnel the proceeds to pay for personal expenses and to illegally finance campaigns for federal office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced thatJOSE LUIS MEZA-LOPEZ, age 52, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count bill of information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Shipping Company Sentenced for Illegally Discharging Oily Waste at Sea.
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense: Promoting U.S. Interests in Africa." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Dionis Luiz Gomez, 31, of Venezuela and Roman Perez Hernandez, 34, of Argentina was sentenced today to 52 days for illegal entry, announced United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller also ordered Gomez and Hernandez to each pay a $10 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Tyrus Cornell Goodwater, Jr., age 27, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Goodwater to 60 months in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: When mass casualty incidents occur - shootings, earthquakes, multiple-car pile-ups - first responders can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of victims. When every second counts, monitoring the vital signs of all the victims in a chaotic situation can be difficult. Emergency medical technicians...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Kevin Clinton, 61 years old, of New Carlisle, Indiana, has been charged with four counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 13 indictments charging 13 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeb Tyler, 45, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax return for the year 2012, was sentenced to serve 14 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer. The defendant was also ordered to pay $2,759,633 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who told his apartment manager that he was going to rob a bank so he could pay his rent, and then robbed a bank with a fake bomb, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to six year and six months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Cranston man was arrested today on charges he allegedly manufactured and sold a “ghost" machinegun without a license to an out-of-state Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) undercover agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Terre Haute, Indiana - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler, announced today that Justin A. Vangilder, 29, of West Terre Haute, was recently sentenced in United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. On Nov. 29, 2018, United States District Court Judge William T. Lawrence sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Dr. Werner Grentz, 69, of London, Kentucky, was sentenced on Wednesday by United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove to three years in federal prison, for falsely reporting his income as $0 on tax documents presented to the Internal Revenue Service for tax years 2011-2015, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today condemned Senate action challenging an IRS policy change that no longer requires many tax-exempt groups to file forms with the IRS disclosing the names and addresses of taxpayers who made substantial contributions.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 96 of the 105 parcels offered in the Canyon Country, Color Country and Green River Districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office Also Announces Non-Prosecution Agreement with American Media, Inc., Related to Its Payment of $150,000 to a Woman to Influence 2016 Presidential Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Marc Jason Levene (57, Sarasota) to five years in federal prison for possessing explosive materials as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Levene to forfeit almost four tons of explosive fuses and flash powder.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - A prominent sculpture remains standing outside of the Montrose Interagency Dispatch Center after receiving much-needed maintenance thanks to local sculptor, Ken Davis. After nearly 15 years, the graying wood and partially-rotten base of the cottonwood chainsaw carving now boasts a fresh...
