News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: In El Paso, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer’s wife, who fled the country prior to sentencing on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges in 2010, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., of...
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted his role in a drug trafficking organization that distributed crack cocaine and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Sandy Springs, GA - Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA) will waive its entrance fee on five days in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By EPA 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: In El Paso, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer’s wife, who fled the country prior to sentencing on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges in 2010, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that COREY SESSION, age 44, of St. Rose, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday after having been convicted after a five-day trial that was held in August 2018 before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon. SESSION was the last defendant to be sentenced in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Hailong Zhang, 46, of Nottingham pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen money, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Four House Democratic Committee Leaders sent a follow-up letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today reiterating their request for answers on the Trump Administration’s decision to decline to defend protections...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Executive Associate Director Derek Benner and Assistant Director Raymond Villanueva traveled to Colombia to attend several high level meetings with their Colombian counterparts, where they announced the results of two major anti-money laundering operations, Operation Viridi (known as Operación Eslabon by Colombian Law Enforcement) and Operation Sin Fronteras.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: This week, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Superintendent Mardi Arce announced a $300,000 project in partnership with Mission Heritage Partners to restore and preserve historic masonry in the park. Half of the project will be funded by the National Park Service with a match from Mission...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Dear Inspector General Horowitz: We write to request that your office conduct an investigation regarding the decision-making process by which the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed, deliberated upon, and entered into a plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. As you are aware, considerable public attention...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - An American priest from Cincinnati has been charged by a federal criminal complaint for allegedly sexually abusing minor boys. The charges follow an international investigation that spanned two continents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and authorities in the Philippines.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Joseph Lee King, 59, from Peshawbestown (Leelanau County), Michigan, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for Domestic Assault - Habitual Offender, U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a 2-year term of supervised release that will commence once King is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two western Massachusetts men were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Springfield on armed robbery and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: MONTGOMERY, AL - Today, Germaine Moore, 45, of Millbrook, Alabama, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for three counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Hal Taylor, District Attorney Randall Houston...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Employee placed small pieces of broken glass into foam cups destined for distribution centers and restaurants.
