News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Michael Krepp, 58, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Sirgusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Fatal Shoot-Out with Police Ended Crime Spree.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statements after President Trump signed H.R. 315, the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, authored by #SubHealth Chairman Burgess, into law. The legislation helps to better identify areas in the nation with shortages in maternity care.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Eleven Kilos of Fentanyl Seized from Hidden Compartment in His Mini-Van.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Roane County man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devin Wolfe, 26, of Spencer, previously entered his guilty plea in July 2018 to one count of receipt of child pornography. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the West Virginia State Police and the Parkersburg Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct a prescribed burn of slash piles on approximately 60 acres of public lands in the Ford Ridge area approximately 17 miles north of Price, UT and west of U.S. Highway 6. Burn operations will take place over the next few months as the project...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statements after President Trump signed H.R. 315, the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, authored by #SubHealth Chairman Burgess, into law. The legislation helps to better identify areas in the nation with shortages in maternity care.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez, along with other federal, state, and local law enforcement officials announce the results of a long-term investigation involving the organized trafficking of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Online Shopping Scams.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has issued the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for Fiscal Year 2019. The Phase I Release 2 FOA, with approximately $37 million in available funding, will provide funding for innovations that address multiple research and development programs throughout DOE...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERICK SANABRIA-HERNANDES, 34, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX) today released the following statements after President Trump signed H.R. 315, the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, authored by #SubHealth Chairman Burgess, into law. The legislation helps to better identify areas in the nation with shortages in maternity care.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Morad “Ben" Neman and Hersel Neman - the owners and top executives of Pacific Eurotex Corp., an import-export textile company based in the Los Angeles Fashion District - each received federal prison sentences today for their roles in a “Black Market Peso Exchange" scheme to launder money for international drug cartels.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Bradley Apollos Thompson, a/k/a “Kuntry," age 28, of West Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to two counts of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer while resisting...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A former student at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine that was sent through the mail by a co-conspirator in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year old nurse from Sugar Land is headed to federal prison following his convictions of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, six counts of health care fraud and conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury returned the guilty verdicts against John Dubor May 17, 2018, after deliberating less than six hours following a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Michael Krepp, 58, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Sirgusa.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Ross: In a letter to you dated April 19, 2018, we requested certain improvements to the process that the Department of Commerce ("DOC") instituted for product exclusions from the tariffs imposed on imported articles of steel and aluminum under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of tax fraud and interfering with internal revenue laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer today admitted conspiring with other officers to violate individuals’ civil rights and to personally accepting a firearm in exchange for reducing the charges on an arrestee, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
