News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Sven Eric Marshall, 61 years old, formerly of South Bend, Indiana, has been charged with five counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Charles Maddox, 50, and Tallahassee political consultant Janice Paige Carter-Smith, 53, both of Tallahassee, have been indicted in a forty-four count indictment for conspiring to operate a racketeering enterprise that engaged in acts of bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Violence Took Place at Northwest Washington Apartment Building.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the FCC’s order establishing a reassigned number database and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s call for carriers to offer free robocall blocking tools...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today applauded the House of Representatives for passing the 2018 Farm Bill conference report on a 369-47 vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Thirteen individuals were arrested on federal drug conspiracy charges following a bust led by the FBI Wednesday morning, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Unveils First Three Indictments Brought Under New Program; It is Projected that in 2018 There Will be At Least Twice as Many Fentanyl Overdose Deaths as Homicides in Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Thunderbolt Dean Whaley, of French Creek, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 180 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine and a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Bergen County, New Jersey, man was arrested today in Park City, Kansas, on charges that he defrauded at least 20 people by soliciting investments in what he claimed were highly successful financial instruments, but which was actually a Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Luis Fernando Carrera-Tolentino, age 21, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., for the crime of unlawful reentry by a removed alien previously convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Gregory A. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, commended President Trump for yesterday signing the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act (NEHRP) into law. Murkowski and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced the bipartisan legislation and secured unanimous passage in the Senate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 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 a superseding indictment charging five foreign nationals with various federal crimes stemming from a bribery and kickback scheme, including money laundering, immigration fraud, and a subsequent murder for hire plot.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Sunlight Foundation’s new report documenting the Trump Administration’s latest efforts to sabotage HealthCare.gov in the middle of the Open Enrollment period. Enrollment through Healthcare.gov is down by about 10 percent compared to 2017 and this latest sabotage threatens to have further impact...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Burlington man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to illegally possessing 30 pieces of ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining the Availability of SAFE Kits at Hospitals in the United States:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Lewistown woman convicted of possessing methamphetamine for distribution was sentenced on Tuesday to 54 months in prison and five years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was charged with making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Marc Beaulieu, 31, of Caribou, Maine, was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison for robbing a credit union in Somersworth, New Hampshire.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Sunlight Foundation’s new report documenting the Trump Administration’s latest efforts to sabotage HealthCare.gov in the middle of the Open Enrollment period. Enrollment through Healthcare.gov is down by about 10 percent compared to 2017 and this latest sabotage threatens to have further impact...
