News from December 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Special Counsel Henry Kerner urging him to rescind the guidance the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) sent agency ethics officers last week regarding whether certain speech is prohibited under the Hatch Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that ELVA RAMIREZ-LAMBERTO age 35, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegally re-entering the United States in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Set up Fraudulent Corporations, Filed Frivolous Claims and Sent Forged Money Orders to Evade Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Michael Wayne Parsons, age 57, formerly of Arlington, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release following his conviction by a United States District Court jury of being a felon in possession of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ghanian national, Kukua Fosu, age 49, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood man who allegedly sold fentanyl to buyers he met on Craigslist was indicted today on federal charges of selling the powerful synthetic opioid to a customer who suffered a fatal overdose.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released two draft recreation business plans for public comment. Each plan covers a different area and proposes changes to fee structures for permits and camping, including increases to support additional amenities and uses. Areas covered by the plans include sites within the Monticello and Richfield Field Offices. The 30-day comment period begins today and closes on January 6, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal district court in Boston today in connection with his role in a bogus advance fee Jamaican lottery scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Daniel Nathaniel McCall (53, Sanford) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his multiple felony convictions, McCall qualified for an increased penalty under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Jorge R. Colina, Chief of the City of Miami Police Department (MPD), today announced the indictment of City of Miami Police Officers Schonton Harris, Kelvin Harris, and James Archibald for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: In Midland, 44-year-old Jose Alonso Zubia was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to entice a minor into engaging in sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., and Interim Midland Police Chief Seth Herman.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Holiday Hours Announced at Homestead National Monument of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former employee of a Providence not-for-profit physicians group today admitted that he attempted to extort $25,000 from the physicians group in exchange for the return of digital media devices onto which he downloaded and took home private patient data and employee data belonging to the physicians group.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Mitchell Zong, 45, a former Anchorage resident, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 30 months in federal prison, and to pay a fine of $10,000, for conspiracy to commit money laundering with his father, Kenneth Zong.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Mexican man who has resided off and on in the United States for over 15 years was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation and subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Reginald Green, II (36, Orlando) guilty of five counts of theft or embezzlement by a bank employee. Green faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced the recent prosecution of three individuals for sexual offenses occurring on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Rhonda Henderson, 47, of Cheektowaga, NY, with mail fraud and making false statements. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today released a cumulative report identifying core strategies to addressing and preventing cybersecurity incidents. The report summarizes the committee’s work and conclusions drawn from dozens of briefings, hearings, letters, reports, and roundtables, and provides six specific priorities for more effective protection against vulnerabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - A law enforcement operation making arrests and serving search warrants over the last two days targeted a multi-state drug trafficking network led by drug cartel members in Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The drug trafficking organization distributing heroin, fentanyl, ...
