News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City - DAVID CHESLEY GOODYEAR, 44, of El Segundo, California, was convicted today by a federal jury on one count of directing distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks against two websites owned by Oklahoma telescope retailer Astronomics in August 2016, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Beckley, W.Va., man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme where he purported to sell paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, on Craigslist.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations held a hearing to review bureaucratic challenges to securing the border on federal lands. Testimony highlighted the need to increase the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to federal borderlands in order to strengthen national and environmental security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Feb. 14, 2018, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Joel Allen Corder, age 45, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to 180 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Corder was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following his imprisonment, to pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and to comply with the sex offender registry requirements upon release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Feb. 15, 2018, following a multi-month trial in U.S. District Court, Chattanooga, before the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Judge, a jury returned guilty verdicts against Mark Hazelwood, 59, of Knoxville, Tennessee; Scott “Scooter" Wombold, 58, of Gallatin, Tennessee; and Heather Jones, 47, of Knoxville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Former Chief Counsel Raphael A. Sanchez of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of Principal Legal Advisor pleaded guilty today for a wire fraud and aggravated identity theft scheme involving the identities of numerous aliens, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and ICE Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Secretary Mnuchin, thank you for joining us today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted an Illinois attorney of fraudulently obtaining loans related to the purchase, maintenance and sale of properties on Chicago’s South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal jury yesterday found Taloa Latu, 28, guilty of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The verdict came a few hours after a two and a half day trial. Latu faces a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years when he is sentenced on June 4, 2018, by Chief U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - In the first criminal prosecution in Chicago involving the cryptocurrency trading industry, a Chicago trader was charged today with fraud for allegedly misappropriating $2 million in Bitcoin and Litecoin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on Feb. 14, 2018, Chief United States District Court Judge Clay D. Land sentenced Allandoe Cortez Boyd, age 37, of Columbus, GA, to 10 years imprisonment for the offense of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the maximum sentence for this offense.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have selected nine projects to receive approximately $6.5 million in federal funding for Phase I of the Fossil Fuel Large-Scale Pilots funding opportunity announcement (FOA).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released two studies from the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. The study, Fuel Blendstocks with the Potential to Optimize Future Gasoline Engine Performance, identifies eight representative high-octane blendstocks across five chemical...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Draft Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan available for review.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Jacob Ryan Underwood, 22, of Elkhart, Indiana was charged by Criminal Complaint with possession of a firearm, namely a destructive device, which is not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging David Lyle Morgan (53, Tampa) with two counts of bankruptcy fraud and one count of falsification of records in a bankruptcy proceeding. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has formed an Opioid Law Enforcement Task Force to combat the serious opioid, heroin, and fentanyl crisis. The Task Force includes federal, state, and local, law enforcement officers and prosecutors, and will be managed by the Eastern...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that OTHO SCHILLING (“SCHILLING"), age 58, of Mt. Hermon, Louisiana, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
