News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: A man who escaped from custody at the Gerald Hinzman Center in June 2017 was sentenced on Feb. 12, 2018, to more than a year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The former corporate officer of a produce vendor in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management began a helicopter-conducted wild horse gather on January 31 within the overpopulated Triple B Complex in Eastern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jay Byron Wright, age 42, of the Calhoun State Prison in Morgan, Georgia, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 1349. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis accepted the plea and will sentence Wright at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Maurice Atkinson, a/k/a “Mo," age 30, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, to life imprisonment on Feb. 12, 2018, for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Edward C. O’Callaghan, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (“FBI"), and James...
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years’ supervised release, on a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting answers following troubling press reports that a contract was awarded to a consulting company owned by Merlynn Carson, the daughter-in-law of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, without undergoing a competitive bidding process.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting answers following troubling press reports that a contract was awarded to a consulting company owned by Merlynn Carson, the daughter-in-law of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, without undergoing a competitive bidding process.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today asking a series of questions surrounding how the FCC reviewed and considered the record 24 million public comments in its proceedings to repeal net neutrality. The letter was signed by all 24 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston and the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced the sentencing in federal court yesterday of several Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles clerks for their role in a scheme to produce false identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Maurice Atkinson, a/k/a "Mo," age 30, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, to life imprisonment on Feb. 12, 2018, for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Feb. 12, 2018 a federal jury has convicted Detective Daniel Thomas Hersl, age 47, of Joppa, Maryland and Detective Marcus Roosevelt Taylor, age 30, of Glen Burnie, Maryland for racketeering conspiracy and racketeering offenses, including robbery and overtime fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today asking a series of questions surrounding how the FCC reviewed and considered the record 24 million public comments in its proceedings to repeal net neutrality. The letter was signed by all 24 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: (WESTON, Fla.) - Five defendants pleaded guilty in unrelated cases to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas, Nevada, tax return preparer pleaded guilty today to filing fraudulent tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia woman has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - 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 Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man has admitted to cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
