News from January 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, highlighted actions taken by President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including those of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his team, to undermine the core mission of the agency in the first year of the Trump Administration. A selection of some of the most detrimental actions taken by EPA over the past year can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Caryl, 25, of Silver Springs, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today that the District of New Jersey collected $51.6 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $19.7 million was collected in criminal actions and $31.8 million was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Gangster Disciple member was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Miguel Pedroza-Naquid, age 29, from Horry County, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, to Illegal Re-Entry into the United States after deportation, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a)(2). United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman announced today that the Northern District of Ohio collected nearly $30 million in fiscal year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a North Carolina man has been convicted of the sexual exploitation of a child in Joplin, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER CERVINO, a/k/a “Smitty," was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and SHEIK F. KHAN, a/k/a “Abida Khan," was sentenced to 53 months in prison for their roles in a securities fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been reached between the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and Astria...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A south suburban man has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for manufacturing synthetic cannabinoids into a smokeable drug known as K2, or “spice.".
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: As a result of snow accumulation and hazardous conditions, Wright Brothers National Memorial will be closed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Westernport, Maryland was indicted by a grand jury in November 2017 for drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: DHS has received new information about this privacy incident that clarifies the impacted population: 1. If you received a written notification from Philip S. Kaplan, you were part of a finite list of approximately 246,167 DHS employees. Most but not all of the DHS employees on this list were employed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: The United States today filed a civil denaturalization complaint in the Northern District of Iowa against a 51-year old man who allegedly obtained his naturalized U.S. citizenship by fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Today Attorney General Sessions issued the following statement applauding Congress for voting to reauthorize Section 702: “Today's vote to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is crucial to allowing us to continue to gather intelligence on foreign terrorists overseas and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: A 54-count superseding indictment was unsealed today, charging 12 members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang (Mongols) with racketeering conspiracy, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Today Attorney General Sessions issued the following statement on Deputy U.S. Marshal Christopher David Hill, killed in the line of duty in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while protecting his community: "Today in the law enforcement community, our hearts are broken over the senseless killing of one of our ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Montana supporting parents who claim that the state unconstitutionally discriminated against their children when it barred them from a private school scholarship program because they attend a religious school. The case, Espinoza ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: A Detroit, Michigan-area doctor was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a $1.7 million health care fraud scheme that involved billing Medicare for physician home visits that were medically unnecessary and/or were billed under unwarranted treatment codes that resulted in inappropriately high payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: United Kingdom-based global financial services company HSBC Holdings plc (HSBC) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) and agreed to pay a $63.1 million criminal penalty and $38.4 million in disgorgement and restitution to resolve charges that it engaged in a scheme to defraud two bank clients ...
