News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Corsica, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Trapp, 50, of Clarence, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RICARDO MACHADO-BACA, age 25, a citizen of Honduras, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE - BLM Alaska conveyed 39,995 acres to the State of Alaska in the Goodnews Bay area recently pursuant to the Alaska Statehood Act of 1959. This is the largest single conveyance of land to the state in eight years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging LENNIE DWAYNE BROOKS, 33, RANDY LORENZO BROOKS, 23, and AUTUMN MARIE NICHOLS, 20, each with one count of robbery. [1].
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-Missoula resident William Perry Hobbs, who admitted distributing methamphetamine to support a heroin addiction, was sentenced to four years in federal prison and five years of supervised released today, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Michael Lewis Bush has been arraigned on federal charges of producing, receiving, and possessing child pornography. The defendant had thousands of images of children, including some he allegedly took himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kan., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing crack cocaine and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Laguna Beach attorney has admitted in court documents that she submitted dozens of fraudulent visa petitions to federal immigration authorities and failed to report the money generated by her fraud to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Tammy Marie Steffen, (36, Holiday) has pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking and one count of sending threatening communications online. Steffen faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for each count. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien with a prior felony drug trafficking conviction pleaded guilty today to cocaine trafficking and firearms charges.
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today released an oversight report outlining failures in management at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) that led to repeated violations of the Smith-Mundt Act.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - During the shutdown of the federal government due to a lapse of appropriations, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will remain as accessible as possible while still following all applicable laws and procedures. Some park roads, trails, and viewpoints in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will remain accessible to visitors, but emergency and rescue services will be limited.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Man was sentenced to life without parole plus 35 years, $18,700 in fines and victim restitution for the shooting death of woman who was returning home from church in Escondido, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Scott Jones, age 62, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to the distribution of a controlled substance that resulted in the death of a Bloomsburg man in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - IMEG Corp., an engineering and construction services firm, has agreed to pay $5.27 million to settle allegations that one of its predecessor entities defrauded the government by conspiring to submit fraudulent bills related to contracts designated for small businesses and small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Sweep includes arrest of Hampden County Superior Court employee for making false statements to federal investigators.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) called on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to immediately address security vulnerabilities identified in a new classified draft report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO expects to issue the final report in early January 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-An indictment filed today in U.S. District Court charges former Custer County High School athletic trainer James “Doc" Jensen, of Miles City, with coercion and enticement of minors to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme announced.
