News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New Jersey firefighter and a Puerto Rican man were convicted by a federal jury in Worcester yesterday in connection with a heroin conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - David Lague was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen, and Health & Human Services, Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Eric A. Zevely, 34, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to producing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Last night, the Senate unanimously passed legislation that would fund our government through February 8. Democrats are disappointed that Congress would kick the can down the road once again, yet we remain willing to pass that bill to keep the government open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The chief executive officer of a publicly traded microcap company was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar securities fraud scheme using false reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to screen a record number of travelers during the 2018 Christmas and New Year holiday travel season, so travelers flying out of the Baltimore area will have plenty of company when passing through the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Pryor resident Gary Duke Carlson was sentenced on Wednesday to 46 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for assaulting and strangling a woman, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a Senate Finance Committee Democratic Staff report detailing threats to America’s safety net, broken middle-class promises and record-breaking windfalls for the wealthy as consequences of Trump’s tax law. Republicans muscled their deficit-exploding corporate handout through Congress on a strict party line basis one year ago today. Trump signed that bill into law two days later.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - Dennis M. Suellentrop, Jr., 38, Arnold, MO, was sentenced today to 120 years in prison for production and possession of child pornography. He appeared today in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging JOHN ANDERSON, 37, of New Britain, with one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Wind Cave National Park staff invite you and your children to explore the natural world by taking part in the Adventures in Nature programs. These free, interactive programs are offered at the park visitor center every other Tuesday beginning January 15 through April 9.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after introduction of a retooled tax relief package that is led by crucial disaster tax relief, enhancements to retirement and savings accounts, relief from various Obamacare taxes, bold IRS reform, and other tax provisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced KELLY LIU, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 16 months in federal prison following her convictions for securities fraud (insider trading) and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. The Court also sentenced LIU to pay a fine of $7,500 and to serve 1 year of supervised release following her term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - In the first two weeks of December, federal grand juries returned four separate and unrelated indictments in cases involving domestic violence, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. These prosecutions involving domestic violence are part of Project Safe Neighborhoods...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after becoming Chairman-Designate of the House Committee on Ways & Means...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A 63-year-old Mexican national wanted in his home country for murder was removed from the U.S. Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and turned over to Mexican law enforcement authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - DEA Special Agent Carlos Lavastida is one of three law enforcement officers from Iowa presented with the Enrique S. Camarena Award by the DEA and United States Attorney’s Offices for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Lavastida, Lieutenant Brad Bollinger of the Sioux City Police Department and Officer Justin Brandt of the Waterloo Police Department were recognized for their commitment to reducing drug abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: JULIE ANN LEE, 53, former controller of the Town & Country Club, was sentenced today to 42 months of federal prison for operating a million dollar embezzlement scheme. LEE, who pleaded guilty on April 4, 2018, was sentenced by Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Shawn Harris, Commissioner of the Mount Vernon Police Department, announced the unsealing of...
