News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2018
News Release: WHITETHORN, Calif. - Fire management specialists with the Bureau of Land Management will be burning piles of brush and small trees in the coming weeks as part of a project to restore a coastal prairie near the community of Petrolia in southern Humboldt County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Charge Arises out of Seizure of Almost Nine Pounds of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA - A Sun Valley man was sentenced late Monday afternoon to 54 months imprisonment for his participation in a large-scale international identity theft scheme that fraudulently obtained tax refunds by using bogus Republic of Armenia passports and then engaged in money laundering of over $14 million of these criminal proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Charges to Be Deferred For Two Years Under an Agreement Requiring U.S. Bancorp to Admit Its Conduct and Pay Penalty of $528 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - In the first criminal prosecution in Chicago involving the cryptocurrency trading industry, a Chicago trader was charged today with fraud for allegedly misappropriating $2 million in Bitcoin and Litecoin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A concerned citizen called in a tip on February 9 to report the sighting of a fugitive in Grand Canyon National Park. The man was wanted on an outstanding warrant for burglary.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal destroys the ability of the men and women from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove millions of illegal aliens. It would be the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them. By halting immigration enforcement for all aliens who will arrive before June 2018, it ignores the lessons of 9/11 and significantly increases the risk of crime and terrorism.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Walls Work. When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens across our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective. Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Non-cooperative jurisdictions that do not honor U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) detainer requests to hold criminal aliens who are already in their custody, endanger the public and threaten officer safety by releasing criminal aliens back into the community to re-offend. In addition to causing preventable crimes, this creates another “pull factor” that increases illegal immigration.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Our current immigration system does not protect American workers or our economy.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Border security includes the ability to remove illegal aliens that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) apprehends, otherwise we are stuck with a system that sanctions catch and release. Due to legal loopholes and court backlogs, even apprehended illegal aliens are released and become part of the temporary, illegal population of people that we cannot remove. This must end now.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Cross-posted from DNI.gov On February 16 and Feb. 18, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), together with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), will sponsor a classified briefing for election officials from all 50 states. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Paul Jumroon, also known as Veraphon Phatanakitjumroon, 54, of Depoe Bay, Oregon, and a naturalized citizen originally from Thailand, pleaded guilty yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, to forced labor, visa fraud conspiracy, and filing a false federal income tax return, announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Two Russian nationals were sentenced yesterday to federal prison terms for their respective roles in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, compromised 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses – one of the largest such schemes ever prosecuted in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice yesterday filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan to revoke the naturalized U.S. citizenship of Humayun Kabir Rahman fka Md Humayun Kabir Talukder aka Ganu Miah aka Shafi Uddin. The case was referred to the Department of Justice by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and identified as a part of Operation Janus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will travel to Europe today with stops in Paris, Brussels, and Bonn for a series of meetings, speaking engagements, and workshops with high-level officials and colleagues. AAG Delrahim will be in Paris on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Former Chief Counsel Raphael A. Sanchez of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of Principal Legal Advisor pleaded guilty today for a wire fraud and aggravated identity theft scheme involving the identities of numerous aliens, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and ICE Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Two real estate investors pleaded guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Mississippi, the Department of Justice announced. “Shannon and Jason Boykin are the first two defendants to plead guilty in the Antitrust Division’s active, ongoing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Nebraska man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography between 2015 and 2016, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Robert C. Stuart of the District of Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has reached an agreement with the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu or the City) and its contracted towing company, All Island Automotive Towing (All Island Towing), to remedy alleged violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). The Department’s ...
