News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Victims Were Watching Television When Suddenly Attacked.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant Will Pay $500,000 in Restitution and a $900,000 Fine, then Shut Down.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mimo International Imports and Exports, Inc. (Mimo) pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with its agreement to pay a $500,000 bribe to Eduardo Li, who was president of the Costa Rican soccer federation (FEDEFUT) at the time of the bribe. Mimo...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to join him in requesting documents from the White House to address critical unanswered questions about the deadly ambush in Niger on October 4, 2017, that killed four U.S. Special Forces troops: Staff Sgts. Bryan C. Black, Jeremiah W. Johnson, and Dustin M. Wright, and Sgt. La David Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: 'All-Natural' Male Enhancement Supplement Contained Active Ingredient Found in Viagra.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Houston resident has entered a guilty plea to selling a firearm to a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a former lead technician at a central Alabama pharmacy to five years in prison for tampering with vials of opioid painkillers used in the compounding of intravenous fluid bags intended for terminally ill patients in debilitating pain.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the attacks by the Assad regime in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last week approved Senator Claire McCaskill’s bipartisan bill to reform government contracting by requiring better oversight of so-called ‘bridge contracts,’ in which a government agency renews an expired contract for a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Today, a federal jury convicted James Philip Lucero of three counts of violating the Federal Clean Water Act for illegally discharging pollutants into waters of the United States, including wetlands, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Environmental Protection Agency Special Agent in Charge Jay Green, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JEREMY RICHARD LUNDIN, 31, to 110 months in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme through which he stole more than $1 million from individual investors. LUNDIN, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2017, was sentenced today before...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Pollock prisoner pleaded guilty last week to possessing a knife.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Pollock prisoner pleaded guilty last week to possessing a knife.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant Traded Before Negative Earnings Announcements and an Acquisition of the Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 34-year-old resident of San Antonio has been ordered to federal prison for illegally transporting undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Richard Sanchez pleaded guilty Nov. 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned a series of indictments over the last few months charging individuals for various alleged firearms offenses arising from a number of vehicle thefts investigated by the Anchorage Police Department (APD).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: The next phase of improvements to the Spruce Railroad Trail is set to begin March 1. During this phase, one mile of the trail on the western end will be closed beginning at the Camp David Jr. Road Trailhead. The trail will remain open for use on the eastern end for 2.7 miles-from the Lyre River Trailhead to the Daley Rankin Tunnel.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Subcommittee Chairman Paul Cook (R-CA) today concluded two days of meetings and briefings in Saudi Arabia focused on threats from Iran, the conflict in Yemen and economic reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Rehelio Trant, 39, of St. Thomas, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in an indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Gretchen C. F. Shappert announced. Trant was detained pending further proceedings.
