News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Licking, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office is extending the public comment period on its environmental assessment evaluating a Lease-by-Application (LBA) for Peabody Energy Twentymile Coal, LLC’s, Foidel Creek Mine near Hayden.
By DOE 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: Losses of Nearly $1 Million. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Campbellsville, Kentucky, man, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Greg N. Stivers on Friday, to five counts of wire fraud as part of a scheme to obtain money from clients of his legal practice, by means of misappropriating funds...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey Grape Street Crips was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that included a double murder, a separate attempted murder, and conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kassim Tajideen, the operator of a network of businesses in Lebanon and Africa whom the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated as an important financial supporter to the Hezbollah terror organization, pleaded guilty today to charges associated with evading U.S. sanctions imposed on him.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statements after the Senate passed H.R. 315, the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, authored by #SubHealth Chairman Michael Burgess.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James C. Hill, a 25 year old resident of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced to 12 months and one day after being convicted of possession of a firearm after conviction of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance.
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: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statements after the Senate passed H.R. 315, the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, authored by #SubHealth Chairman Michael Burgess.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Jennifer Anne Thaw, who admitted embezzling approximately $390,680 from her employer where she worked as the office manager, was sentenced in federal court today to one year and one day in prison, three years supervised release and ordered to pay restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIANE DALMY, 63, of Denver, Colorado, was resentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a securities fraud scheme, and for hiding money after her original sentencing proceeding earlier this year to avoid paying restitution to victims of the scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a rule providing that upwind states meet their “good neighbor" requirements of the 2016 Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) for ozone-season nitrogen oxides based on the outdated 2008 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANH DUONG, age 72, was charged Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in a one-count Bill of Information with transportation of individuals in interstate commerce for prostitution, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2421(a).
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: GREAT FALLS - Two employees who worked for the Blackfeet Tribe’s Head Start Program in Browning admitted in federal court on Thursday to stealing money through an overall scheme involving others in which an estimated $232,000 was fraudulently claimed as overtime pay, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he commissioned on U.S. support for Central American efforts to reintegrate returning migrants into their home countries. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Yesterday, Richard Lee Graham, 55, of Gardendale, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 48 months in federal prison for passing a fictitious instrument and obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Principal Deputy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Defendant Madeline Miró-Aponte pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Camille Vélez-Rivé to 30 counts of wire fraud involving in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Miró-Aponte was charged today via an Information.
