News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Columbus, Ohio man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today held a hearing to receive testimony on legislation to address two time-sensitive issues related to U.S.-affiliated islands. The bills were S. 2182, the Bikini Resettlement and Relocation Act , and S. 2325, the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: The wife of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield pleaded guilty to the felony offense of filing false tax return documents, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Linden, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring with officials at the Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) and the Jersey City Childhood Development Centers Inc. (JCCDC) to fraudulently obtain payments for services he never provided, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A New Mexico man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his conviction on federal child exploitation and child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted being a felon in possession of a firearm while serving as the driver in a drive-by shooting in Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the state of Louisiana has been sentenced in federal court to 38 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $1,628,319.04, on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher L. Morgan, age 31, of Schenectady, New York, was arraigned last week on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Committee Member Stacey E. Plaskett sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to compel the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to produce...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia woman has admitted to her role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after receiving a letter from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announcing the State Department’s creation of a Bureau for Cyberspace and the Digital Economy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Steubenville, Ohio man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on drug and firearm charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Energy Secretary Rick Perry conducted an all-hands meeting with Savannah River Site (SRS) employees at the conclusion of his first visit to the site last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. ‐ U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, the Western District of New York Office recovered $17,889,000 as a result of wide‐ranging efforts in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture cases. Of that amount, $7,223,745 was given to victims of crime...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
Release: MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) set a one-day record on Feb. 5 for the number of people the agency screened through security checkpoints. On “Get Away Monday," following Super Bowl LII, TSA at MSP screened 60,883 people.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 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 an Indictment charging BYRON ELLIOTT VAUGHN, 31, of Waterbury, with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Munther Omar Saleh was sentenced by United States District Judge Margo K. Brodie to 18 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by a term of 10 years’ supervised release. Saleh had pleaded guilty on Feb. 10, 2017 to all counts in an indictment charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: The wife of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield pleaded guilty to the felony offense of filing false tax return documents, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: A Lake County man was indicted for importing 35 grams of a fentanyl analogue from China, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Sheila Bosarge Mendez, 51, of Pass Christian, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute methadone, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
