News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive $17.6 million in federal funding under the Office of Fossil Energy’s Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies funding opportunity announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Lawrence County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Steven M. Williams a/k/a “Brother Ray," a/k/a “Ray", age 38, and Harry E. Rivers a/k/a “Hakeem," a/k/a “Pots," age 28, both of Delaware, for sex trafficking of a child and by force, fraud, and coercion. The indictment was returned on Feb. 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: A former Seattle resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawful possession of a destructive device for making and throwing bottles filled with gasoline at police officers on May 1, 2016, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. WIL CASEY FLOYD, 33, of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Robbers were Armed with a Gun and Knife and Physically Restrained Bank Employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who was wanted by law enforcement in the District of Arizona for escaping from a Bureau of Prisons facility was found guilty by a jury yesterday of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman who forged a court order to get another inmate released from prison, was sentenced in federal court today for obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Feb. 22, 2018, defendant Karen Curet-Nieves was sentenced to a term of 48 months (four years) of imprisonment, and two years of supervised release term by District Judge Pedro A. Delgado for her participation in a bribery and health care fraud scheme that occurred from approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Steven Paschell, 48, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of butyryl fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A tax preparer from Finney County pleaded guilty Thursday to filing false federal tax returns, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. The defendant agreed to pay restitution of more than $397,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The final two defendants charged in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving their former employer have pleaded guilty, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Montgomery man pled guilty today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Rory White, also known as “Dub," 34, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin and a quantity of oxycodone. White is one of 23 defendants indicted in June 2017 after a comprehensive investigation of drug trafficking in Southern West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that former Logan County Schools Superintendent Phyllis Doty, 68, of Logan, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for charges relating to a scheme to defraud the Logan County Board of Education of money and property. U.S. Attorney Stuart was joined in the announcement by officials from the FBI and the West Virginia Legislature Commission on Special Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today filed denaturalization lawsuits against five individuals who, according to the Department’s complaints, unlawfully procured their United States citizenship by concealing their sexual abuse of minor victims during the naturalization process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, 23-year-old Bradley Ahearn admitted to shooting a U.S. Mail carrier last year in Spring Branch, TX, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 31-year-old Nicholas Andreas Gonzalez-Malven to 45 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson, who also serves as the Acting Executive Director of the National Center for Disaster Fraud, announced today that JENNIFER J. WEBER, age 35, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury charging her with theft of $9,331 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds in relation to the 2016 Baton Rouge flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: FBI Gang Task Force Arrests California Fugitive.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today unveiled a new webpage featuring resources to help rural communities respond to the opioid crisis.
