News from December 2018
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: DORAL, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Nupress of Miami Inc. for exposing employees to amputation, electrical, and fall hazards. The Doral, Florida, commercial printer faces $71,139 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Three seasoned Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) officers and U.S Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert represented the Territory at last week’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. The Conference brought together federal prosecutors and their law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul Byron has sentenced Jeffrey Noel (25, Orlando), Herichie Paul (21, Orlando), and Awetu Megersa (23, Orlando) to 25, 16, and 13 years in federal prison, respectively, for carjacking and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Hays man admitted assault charges on Monday in federal court after he attempted to stab a Fort Belknap law enforcement officer with a pair of scissors in a confrontation during which he got shot in the shoulder, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that FREDY ANTONIO MENDOZA-CHIRINOS, age 26, a native of Honduras, was charged Friday, December 7, 2018 in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant’s Girlfriend Also Charged with Lying to the FBI about Witnessing the Shooting.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a proposed rule to revise the beryllium standard for general industry. The proposed changes are designed to clarify the standard, and to simplify or improve compliance with the standard.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Mark A. Brueggemann, 60, of Waterloo, Illinois, has been convicted of knowingly receiving child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Brueggemann pleaded guilty to a one-count federal indictment without a plea agreement. He faces a prison sentence of 5 to 20 years on the charge. Sentencing is set for March 27, 2019, at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former bank teller pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling from a savings and loan where she worked, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Targeted and Defrauded Dozens of Elderly Investors from 2000 to 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: 25+ Grams Found On Defendant In Undercover Operation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: EASTHAM, Mass. - The entire Red Maple Swamp Trail in Eastham has reopened following a collaborative rehabilitation project between Cape Cod National Seashore and Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The trail, which was closed since 2010, is a 1.5 mile long walking trail connecting the Fort Hill and Hemenway Landing areas.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Nov. 5, 2018, Ganaderos Borges Inc. (Ganaderos), Naguabo, Puerto Rico, a slaughtering packer, waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $7,250 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gretchen C.F Shappert announced today that the Virgin Islands U.S. Attorney’s Office is sponsoring training this week for prosecutors from the USVI and Puerto Rico and federal agents here in the Territory who are dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of large-scale narcotics...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joshua Huffman, 32, a resident of Lyons, Nebraska, was sentenced today, in Omaha, Nebraska, by Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for the crime of bank fraud. Senior Judge Smith Camp sentenced Huffman to 3 months’ imprisonment, a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered Huffman to make restitution to the United Bank of Iowa and the Washington County Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LUIS OMAR VARGAS, an unlicensed dentist, was convicted last Friday, after a two-week jury trial, for defrauding health insurance companies by billing for false claims, billing for claims performed by him as an unlicensed provider, and for conspiring to pay kickbacks to his patients. The trial was presided over by United States District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Julio Sanchez, 48 years old, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - With the surrender this morning of the final defendant, federal authorities have taken into custody four people named in a grand jury indictment that alleges a “bust-out" scheme in which the defendants fraudulently charged nearly $2 million in less than a year to credit cards often opened with “synthetic identities.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: On December 6, 2018, during the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced that sixteen Project Safe Neighborhoods Awards will be distributed nationally. The West Palm Beach Police Department in the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former bank teller pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling from a savings and loan where she worked, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
