News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Cruz Bay, St. John, V.I. - During the shutdown of the federal government due to the lapse of appropriations, national parks will remain as accessible as possible while still following all applicable laws and procedures. Park roads, beaches, and trails at Virgin Islands National Park, will remain accessible to visitors, but emergency and rescue services will be limited.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A nurse at the Department of Correction’s Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) in Plymouth, was arrested yesterday and charged with distribution of Suboxone strips to inmates in that facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Morgan, 42, of Pittsford, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to a total of 114 months in federal prison for the robbery of the U.S. Cellular store, 6430 E. State St., in Rockford, on June 1, 2016, and for using a firearm during a violent crime.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Debido al lapso de las asignaciones y el posterior cierre del gobierno federal, el Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan está cerrado por la seguridad de los visitantes y los recursos del parque.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel J. Fillerup, age 33, of Albany, pled guilty yesterday to selling fentanyl that caused the death of its user.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Courier for Husband and Wife Made 25 Trips, Last One Alone Containing 6 Kilos of Meth.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the House passed S. 512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, sending the legislation to the President’s desk to become law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a five-count superseding indictment charging CARLOS DELGADO, also known as “Los," 49, of Mansfield, and LUIS ALAMO, 42, of Willimantic, with narcotics trafficking and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The United States has partially intervened in a lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Wheeling Hospital, Inc. ("Wheeling), R & V Associates, Ltd. ("R & V"), and Ronald Violi in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
Release: Washington - Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Service Brandon Lipps today highlighted the accomplishments of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in 2018, from common-sense flexibilities for school meal providers to the agency’s vigorous response to provide food to the victims of coast-to-coast natural disasters.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forged ahead to expand export opportunities and diversify markets for U.S. farm and food products in 2018, and those efforts paid off with global sales remaining robust despite numerous challenges in the international trade arena.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marquese Whitted, age 33, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in Schuylkill and Berks Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that 15 individuals were arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearm offenses. The arrests are the culmination of a year-long investigation into drug trafficking in and around the Rochester, Farmington, Somersworth, and Dover areas...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-Billings resident Joseph Wayne Waters was sentenced on Thursday to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for his conviction of illegally possessing firearms, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Williams, 44, of Kenmore, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to serve 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Compu-Link Corporation (Celink) has agreed to a civil settlement that will pay $4.25 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with its participation in a federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) or “reverse mortgage" program.
