News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio, announce the arrest of Raynard Clayton, 34, of Akron.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Officers Hersl and Taylor Robbed Victims, Filed False Affidavits and Made Fraudulent Overtime Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Romance Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Xavier Walton, age 26, of San Antonio, Texas, was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with fraudulently soliciting and receiving payments from timeshare owners, including a resident of Saratoga Springs, New York.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Today, BLM Colorado’s Acting State Director Greg Shoop honored local BLM employees and partners for their outstanding efforts in community education and outreach. The Grand Junction Ethnobotany team and BLM McInnis Canyons and Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Manager Collin Ewing were recognized.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles clerk was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to produce false identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Monyet Davell Johnson, 43, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. to serve 120 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years supervised release and a fine of $1500.00 for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Feb. 13, 2018, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts against a South Jersey man, in connection with his operation of a fraudulent nationwide law practice, following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia investigation with assistance provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard J. Morgan, age 54, of Shavertown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to 38 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release, for committing bank fraud and interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws. Morgan was also ordered to pay $494,618.85 in restitution to his victims and the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division announced that Elisa Rivera Ortiz, 36, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to attempted possession, with intent to distribute, cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Steubenville, Ohio man has admitted to unlawful possession on a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for arson after throwing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to an apartment building in Alexandria in June 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Former owner of the Meat Store also ordered to pay $545,000 restitution.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding comments by Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and other officials that Russia will likely interfere in the 2018 American elections...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 13, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Bruna De Paula Cardoso, 24, Brazil, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Judge Hovland sentenced Cardoso to serve three years and one month in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and to pay restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today that the Northern District of Texas collected $350,706,916.75 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $322,529,436.78 was collected in criminal actions and $28,177,479.97 was collected in civil actions.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Modernizing Food Aid: Improving Effectiveness and Saving Lives.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A pain management doctor practicing in Las Vegas was arrested today and charged with 29-counts of unlawful distribution of fentanyl and for committing health care fraud, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada, Assistant Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Former owner of the Meat Store also ordered to pay $545,000 restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: On parole for previous child pornography conviction in Indiana.
