News from December 2018
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed S. 2465, the Sickle Cell Disease and Other Heritable Blood Disorders Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2018, as well as S. 3029, the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2018, into law yesterday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: FARGO: United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on Dec. 18, 2018, U.S. District Judge Mark W. Bennett, Northern District of Iowa, sitting by designation, sentenced JOVAN MARQUIS HARRIS, age 28, of Milwaukee, WI, on a charge of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss -Benjamin James McGrigg, 42, of Jackson, was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2018, by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for commercial driver’s license fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Regional Special Agent in Charge Todd Damiani with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: For Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Maintaining a Place for Distributing and Using Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who was part of a $4 million drug conspiracy operating out of a barbershop in Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced Tuesday to 52 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that William Cooke, 22, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a 15-count indictment charging FRANK MOSS, 31, of Prospect, with offenses related to the illegal purchase and possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Locos Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boson for his role in a 2014 murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Joel Zupnik, 53, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet following a three-day federal jury trial held in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The guilty verdict was returned on Dec. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned a superseding indictment charging Marcus Etienne, a.k.a. Hitler, Mario Robinson, and Burte Gucci Rhodes, a.k.a. Moeshawn, with murder-for-hire, a number of firearms and drug distribution offenses, and related crimes, announced United States...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: “I am proud of the work of the Federal Commission on School Safety, which today offers a bold vision of secure and violence-free schools. This report provides actionable recommendations for communities, schools, and students to protect themselves and prevent acts of violence. The Department of Homeland ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement today after the U.S. Senate passed the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 2018 (H.R. 7213). The House unanimously passed this bill earlier this week. This legislation permanently establishes the Countering ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: APHIS Website Can Help All Gift Givers This Holiday Season Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2018 – The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service today announced that representatives from the North Pole were among the visitors checking out the Agency’s new ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker today released the following statement: "The Trump administration is taking action to prevent and deter violence in our schools," Acting Attorney General Whitaker said. "The Department of Justice is already directing funding to hire school resource officers, improving ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Today, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced that the Department of Justice has amended the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of “machinegun” under federal law, as such devices allow a shooter ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: IAV GmbH (IAV), a German company that engineers and designs automotive systems, has agreed to plead guilty to one criminal felony count and pay a $35 million criminal fine as a result of the company’s role in a long-running scheme for Volkswagen AG (VW) to sell diesel vehicles in the United States by using a defeat device to cheat on U.S. vehicle emissions tests required by federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: The owner of a Miami, Florida-area pharmacy who caused Medicare to pay more than $8.4 million over a six-year period for prescription drugs that were never provided to beneficiaries was sentenced today to 87 months in prison. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his April attack on a federal prosecutor outside the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the filing of a complaint in federal district court against Watermark Solutions (Watermark), a private corporation located in Phoenix, Arizona. The complaint alleges that Watermark violated the employment rights of Staff Sergeant Larry Green (SSG Green), a reservist in the United States Air Force, under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: A Nigerian national was charged in court documents unsealed today for his role as the alleged ringleader of an international advance-fee scheme that allegedly involved false promises of investment funding by individuals who impersonated U.S. bank officials in person and over the internet to victims around ...
