News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Henry T. Dean, III, 58, of Beaver Dams, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The judge also ordered the defendant to pay restitution totaling $120,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Late on Nov. 29, 2018-a few days before she was scheduled to go to trial-Lauren Montillo, age 47, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to tax evasion. According to her plea agreement, from 2010 through 2015, Montillo and her co-conspirators...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced John Robert Payne on Nov. 30, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 48 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for violating Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Guillermo Jose Rodriguez, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to two years probation for a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility (OF200 MTF) contract to APTIM-North Wind Construction JV, LLC. The value of the Firm-Fixed-Price contract is $91,770,489. The period of performance is for up to 4 years after issuance of the initial notice to proceed, inclusive of final cleanup of the premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach woman pleaded guilty today to her role in a heroin and fentanyl distribution conspiracy that resulted in an overdose death.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is known worldwide as a nuclear waste repository.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Richard Silvestri, 49, of Seabrook, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DAVID CHESLEY GOODYEAR, 44, of El Segundo, California, has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for directing distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attacks against two websites owned by Oklahoma telescope retailer Astronomics in August 2016, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced sentencing of MARIO LUIS JONES, 27, for the violent armed robbery of a Red & White taxicab in Minneapolis, Minnesota. JONES pleaded guilty on May 8, 2018, and was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment, on Dec. 3, 2018, by Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has returned to normal enforcement operations throughout the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) following Typhoon Yutu. OSHA will continue to provide compliance assistance and outreach through the CNMI Onsite Consultation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 29-year-old Carthage, Texas man has been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Ikaika Erik Kang, 35, a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army formerly stationed at Schofield Barracks, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Kang was...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the culmination of a long-term investigation of a violent and drug trafficking organization known as the “Bird Gang," operating primarily in Tampa. As a result, 18 individuals have been charged with various federal firearms and drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN CARBONELLA, 60, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling funds from Webster...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Chickasaw National Recreation Area to Initiate Prescribed Fires.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Tracking the spread of a wildfire. Searching for a missing person. Detecting toxic fumes after an explosion before sending in rescue workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CIBONEY PARKER, age 25, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, to charges relating to an attempt to introduce controlled substances into the Orleans Justice Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN CARBONELLA, 60, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling funds from Webster...
