News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUQMAN GOTTI, formerly known as Timothy Pennington, 37, of Manchester, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Bailey, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for drug distribution and firearm charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Today, a West Palm Beach federal jury convicted a Lake Worth resident of sex trafficking and obstruction of a sex trafficking investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Dr. Jonathan Daitch, M.D. has agreed to a civil settlement that will pay $1.718 million to the United States to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by receiving illegal kickbacks associated with the provision of anesthesia services and by causing the submission of medically unnecessary urine tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years on each of Counts 1-4 to be served concurrently and seven years on Count 5; to be served consecutive with Counts 1-4 for a total of 22 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of five counts of violating federal bank robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - The Wind Cave National Park Visitor Center and cave will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year’s Day to allow staff to celebrate the holidays with their families. Throughout the remainder of the winter, the visitor center will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with cave tours at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. The park’s surface area will remain open and available for touring or hiking throughout the winter, weather dependent.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: By Warren Rojas. Dec. 20, 2018 6:31AM ET. The prolific Utah lawmaker, who is leaving office 40 years after he arrived on Capitol Hill, historically has fought for what he believes in by studying policy, building bipartisan support, and patiently bending the legislative branch to his will. His legislative...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Joshua Ryan Nance, 28, of Florence, South Carolina, was sentenced to over three years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture and pass counterfeit money.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tariq Butt, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of government funds, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $305,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding recent events in Nicaragua...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Announces Migration Protection Protocols "> WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced historic action to confront the illegal immigration crisis facing the United States. Effective immediately, the United States will begin the process of invoking Section 235(b)(2)(C) ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Since at least 2014, Chinese cyber actors associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security have hacked multiple U.S. and global managed service and cloud providers. These Chinese actors used this access to compromise the networks of the providers’ clients, including global companies located in at least 12 countries.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2018) – At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced a proposed rule intended to move more able-bodied recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to self-sufficiency through the dignity ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today celebrated President Trump’s signing of the 2018 Farm Bill and issued the following statement: “This is a great day for our farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers, as President Trump’s signature on this bill ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2018 — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congress in July of 2016, directed USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioengineered. The Standard requires food manufacturers, importers and certain retailers to ensure bioengineered foods are appropriately disclosed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker today released the following statement: "Because of loopholes in our laws, tens of thousands of illegal aliens have been able to enter this country, make meritless asylum claims, and then be released and disappear into the United States. But the Trump administration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey Rotich pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return and making a false bankruptcy declaration, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen R. McAllister of the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Zhang Xiao Dong (aka “Mark Zhang”), of Shanghai, China, was sentenced in Dallas today to 24 months’ imprisonment and two years of supervised release in connection with a scheme to sell mislabeled dietary supplements, the Department of Justice announced. Zhang was the Sales Manager for Genabolix USA, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a denaturalization lawsuit against Nedjo Milosevic, a native of the former Yugoslavia, who, according to the Department’s complaint, was a member of one of the military units responsible for the Srebrenica massacre—the largest mass atrocity in Europe since the Holocaust. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Were Members of the APT 10 Hacking Group Who Acted in Association with the Tianjin State Security Bureau and Engaged in Global Computer Intrusions for More Than a Decade, Continuing into 2018, Including Thefts from Managed Service Providers and More Than 45 Technology Companies The unsealing ...
