News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of “H.R. 506, the “Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 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 10, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A California man who swallowed plastic bags containing approximately 600 grams of heroin and later admitted that he possessed the drug with intent to distribute it was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Trafficked a Dozen Minors for Sex in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Using Backpage to Advertise Underage Girls for Sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man has admitted today to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Hiban Molina Camacho, 28, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced this week before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Lamarcus Moore, 32, of Mobile, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for emailing threats to kidnap and kill a woman in Mobile. United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has settled False Claims Act allegations against dental management company Benevis LLC (formerly known as NCDR LLC) and more than 130 of its affiliated Kool Smiles dental clinics for which Benevis provides business management and administrative...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park is pleased to award the 2018 Shenandoah National Park Trust Research Grant to a team from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The project will look at forest changes related to the invasive emerald ash borer (EAB), which kills more than 99% of the ash trees it inhabits. Forests in Shenandoah National Park (SNP) and the surrounding region are already being impacted by this forest pest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of two Cambridge-based investment advisory firms pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud hedge fund investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent-in-Charge James J. Hunt of DEA’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced yesterday that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Jaron Ruth, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y., with the discharge of a firearm causing death; possession...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is holding several public meetings to provide input in the development of off-highway vehicle grant proposals for submission to the California State Parks, Off Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. Proposed grant applications are currently being prepared by the BLM for the FY 2017-18 grant cycle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: RESPONSE TO QUERY. JAN. 5, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau is evaluating the request from the U.S. Department of Justice and will process it in the same way we have historically dealt with such requests. The final list of questions must be submitted to Congress by March 31, 2018. Secretary Ross will then...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Terrence Lynn Thompson, 54, of Houston, Texas was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 150 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017 to his role in the conspiracy to rob Tilak Jewelers in Irving, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio, 58-year-old James Edward Cox of Waxhaw, NC, admitted to conducting an advanced fee investment scheme through which he and others obtained in excess of $5 million from their victims announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 260,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 65,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2017/2018 marketing year and 195,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Tyree Alexia Hall (27, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Framingham-based Staples Inc. of more than $1.4 million.
