News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981 and Caroline Han (619) 546-6968.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation released its Final Environmental Impact Statement today for the Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System. The FEIS identifies a preferred alternative based on analysis of potential environmental impacts of five alternatives for planning, designing and constructing the regional water system in the Pojoaque Basin of north-central New Mexico.
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that they plan to introduce a censure resolution following the MLK holiday next week, in response to President Donald Trump’s comments on American immigration policy regarding Haiti and African countries during a Jan. 11, 2018 meeting with Members of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Liberian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to resisting a federal officer at Logan International Airport. The defendant struck and injured deportation officers as they attempted to facilitate his removal from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former U.S. Postal employee from Pitkin pleaded guilty Thursday to burning U.S. mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROBERT RICKS, age 36, of New Orleans, was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Bureau of Prisons by Honorable Judge Carl J. Barbier today after being convicted in a two day trial for his role in conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, possessing heroin and crack with the intent to distribute, possessing a gun in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Former President of Maryland-Based Transportation Company Indicted on 11 Counts Related to Foreign Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Enterprise, Alabama- Today, twenty-one suspected methamphetamine and heroin traffickers from the Enterprise and Dothan areas have been arrested during pre-dawn roundups, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama. These arrests follow two federal grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Houston men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions in a $1 million narcotics trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Calvin Weaver, age 27, of Syracuse, pled guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm with a defaced serial number, and simple possession of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Nahant couple was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with the “short sale" of a house in Nahant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Helwood Paris, 20, of Puerto Rico, and Hanselo Recio, 18, of the Dominican Republic, were sentenced yesterday for their roles in the armed robbery of the McDonald’s restaurant in Lockhart Shopping Center, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Richard Wyatt Davis, Jr. 41, formerly of Cornelius, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer today and pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of tax evasion, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, one count of health care fraud, and one count of perjury, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - The owner of an Orlando, Florida-area pharmacy, a medical doctor and a patient recruiter were convicted today for their role in a kickback scheme involving pain and scar creams that resulted in the payment of approximately $4.3 million in false and fraudulent claims to TRICARE. TRICARE provides coverage for active duty military and their families, as well as retired veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRASER THOMPSON was sentenced today to five years in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRANDON SMITH, age 30, and CHELSIE WILLIAMS, age 24, residents of New Orleans, were sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Bail Bondsman admits to assisting Wayne Jenkins in selling hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs robbed from citizens by Baltimore Police Department officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Wichita men pleaded guilty Friday to federal gambling and income tax charges, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
