News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Patrick W. Riley (67, Sumter County) today pleaded guilty to violating the animal fighting provisions of the federal Animal Welfare Act. He faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who sold crack to an informant in September 2016 pled guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stephen Somon, 44, of Ironton, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting the distribution of crack. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A Sweeny woman has pleaded guilty in Galveston federal court to conspiracy and sex trafficking of children, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Dr. Kenneth G. Edwards, 64, a resident of Columbus, Georgia, and two of his employees, Joann Bush, 58, and Andrea Daigle, 40, both from Smiths Station, Alabama, were arrested yesterday after being indicted by a federal grand jury, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Dr. Edwards owns and operates a chiropractic practice in Phenix City, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: New York Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS and Passport Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Miguel Figueroa, 32, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 10 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing butyryl fentanyl and furanyl fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Defendants are latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally selling prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose to undercover operatives who visited the physician’s Victorville medical office.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Update on the Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Electric Infrastructure."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL LARA, 47, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 42 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Laubacker, 26, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and cyberstalking, was sentenced to 180 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey-based securities trader was indicted today on additional charges stemming from his alleged role in orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Department’s ongoing non-compliance with federal requirements, outlined in the agency’s most recent financial audit for Fiscal Year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that REBECCA BLOCK, 43, of Windsor, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to a federal tax offense stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bayonne, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for robbing Bayonne Community Bank in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 25, 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) participation in a series of coordination meetings with state and local election officials, private sector companies, and federal partners to discuss cybersecurity for the nation’s election infrastructure.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2018 – Puerto Rico residents continuing to recover from the impacts of recent hurricanes could be eligible for increased nutrition assistance, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This temporary assistance will be distributed through the Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP), beginning March 1. NAP is administered by the USDA and is operated by the Puerto Rico Department of the Family.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of the Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force, which will canvass the many ways that the Department is combatting the global cyber threat, and will also identify how federal law enforcement can more effectively accomplish its mission in this vital and evolving area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has reached a settlement with Food Love 125 Inc., d/b/a Ichiba Ramen, a New York City restaurant, to resolve the Department’s investigation into whether the restaurant violated the Immigration and Nationality Act’s (INA) anti-discrimination provision. A worker’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that the United States District Court for the District of Arizona has approved an agreement between the Department and the state of Arizona to help ensure that military service members, their family members, and U.S. citizens living overseas have an opportunity ...
