News from February 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle Wednesday for three federal felonies in connection with their scheme to smuggle dozens of firearms to Turkey and Iraq in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Defendants Rented Apartments for Prostitution, Advertised on Backpage.com and other Sites; Cycled Sex Workers Through Locations Across the West.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: The Defendants Used Sophisticated “Capping" Method to Produce Child Pornography and Shared It Online.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Kenneth Bailey, 53, of Weare, New Hampshire was sentenced in federal court to serve 18 months in prison for drug trafficking, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Wendi E. Detter, age 44, of York, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Jan. 31, 2018, with wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In November 2017, the Bureau of Reclamation signed a Finding of No Significant Impact to acquire up to 8,863 acre-feet of water for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge through Aug. 25, 2018. Reclamation has prepared a new FONSI updating the November...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An owner of two IT staffing and consulting companies today admitted using phony documents to fraudulently obtain H1-B visas for foreign workers and submitting false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is one of the 2018 top attractions in North Carolina, according to the 10Best USA TODAY Reader’s Choice contest.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: On Feb. 1, 2018, Gustavo Falcon, of Miami, member of the Falcon-Magluta organization, pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, an offense punishable by up to twenty years in prison. Prior to his arrest in April 2017, Falcon was a fugitive for 26 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Following an eight-day trial before the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, a jury found Randall Keith Beane, 50, of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, 45, of Pierce County, Washington, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The jury also found Beane guilty of six additional counts of wire and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Joseph Barry Foy, 27, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 65 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for drug and gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. A jury previously found Charles York Walker, Jr., 39, guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Walker also pleaded guilty to two counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: James E. Sizemore, a/k/a "Jimmy," 58, of Carbondale, was indicted on January 4, 2018, in a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jahmir Antoine Robinson has been sentenced to four years, six months in federal prison for running a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme after he stole the identities of 153 people, and caused a tax loss of approximately $409,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Attorney General Rosenstein:. The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing its oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the FBI’s investigation of classified information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. On...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William T. Hopmeier, 47, St. Louis, was indicted on Feb. 1, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Orleans woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to stealing her deceased husband’s Social Security benefits.
