News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Hundreds of packages of cocaine shipped via the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico to RI.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and a bipartisan delegation of committee members will tour the North American International Auto Show on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, beginning at 7:30 a.m.
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: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his second federal bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal judge today sentenced the former owner of Pacific Hospital in Long Beach to 63 months in prison for overseeing a 15-year-long health care fraud scheme that involved more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks paid to doctors and other medical professionals in exchange for referring thousands of patients who received spinal surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced an 8-count indictment against Rex Hammond, age 53, of Terre Haute, Indiana for 5-counts of Hobbs Act robbery, 2 counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and 1 count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that defendant JOSEPHINE JOANN QUINTANILLA, age 37, from Mangilao, was sentenced in the District Court of Guam to 46 months imprisonment for the crimes of Drug User in Possession of Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WADE YBARZABAL, age 56, of Mandeville, was charged by way of a Bill of Information with one count of filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jason Dixon (32, Palm Coast) today pleaded guilty to distributing “crack" cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.87 million for seven projects to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing through high performance computing. Part of DOE's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, the seven new public private partnerships will enable greater collaboration between DOE national labs and the U.S. manufacturing industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II to 12 months in prison and one year of supervised release for his use of excessive force during an arrest of a woman in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Demonstrating the Tribe’s dedication to energy independence and sustainable development, on Dec. 18, 2017, the Picuris Pueblo of New Mexico celebrated the completion of a new 1-megawatt (MW) community solar photovoltaic (PV) array that will offset 100% of the cost of the energy currently used by the tribal buildings and residences on the Picuris trust land.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A suspended Essex County, New Jersey, lawyer was sentenced today to three years’ probation, including 10 months of home confinement, for failing to pay personal and employment payroll taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Geovany Calderon-Osorio, 24, from Fairmont City, Illinois, was sentenced to 144months in prison on seven different counts of trafficking in methamphetamine and cocaine, Don Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Calderon-Osorio also was ordered to pay a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Benjamin F. Chavez, 55, of Cubero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 75 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Chavez also was ordered to forfeit five firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Thomas Kellermann, 65, of Bedford, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Today is DHS’s Blue Campaign’s “Wear Blue Day” For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on Human Trafficking Awareness Day: “Make no mistake, human trafficking is modern-day ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Projects will restore healthy forests on private and public lands in 24 states WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest nearly $32 million this year to mitigate wildfire risk, improve water quality and restore healthy forest ecosystems in 24 states and Puerto ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the creation of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team (HFNT), a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors. HFNT prosecutors and investigators are tasked with investigating ...
