News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Cronan, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that JOO HYUN BAHN, a/k/a “Dennis Bahn" (“BAHN") pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a draft report to President Trump in response to the May 11, 2017, Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Cronan, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that JOO HYUN BAHN, a/k/a “Dennis Bahn" (“BAHN") pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Baton Rouge Man Arrested by FBI and Charged with Attempted Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Attorney General Jeff Sessions has selected the Northern District of Texas to receive additional resources for the fight against violent crime. The district will receive an additional Assistant U.S. Attorney to focus exclusively on violent crime, one of 40 new federal prosecutors in 27 selected locations throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Curtis Langlois, 37, Madison, pleaded guilty in federal court in Madison to a six-count information charging him with two counts of Hobbs Act armed robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and one count of facilitating the straw purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former Jersey City Chief of Police today admitted defrauding the Jersey City Housing Authority (JCHA) by obtaining compensation for off-duty work that he did not perform, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Patricio Murillo Sandoval, age 40, of Newark, New Jersey, pled guilty yesterday to encouraging and inducing an alien to illegally enter the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, age 37, of Middle River, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - An Arlington, Virginia, man had a bad start to the new year yesterday morning, Jan. 4 when a Transportation Security Administration officer at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) spotted a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag at one of the airport checkpoints.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: VALE, OR - As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive, the Vale District announced plans to conduct a helicopter gather of wild horses within the Cold Springs and Hog Creek Herd Management Areas beginning in January/February 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory N. Cason, 45, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge for IRS Criminal Investigation, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Darrell Rosen, age 59...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge for IRS Criminal Investigation, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Darrell Rosen, age 59...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Behnam Halali was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, Ernesto Magat to four years’ imprisonment, and Karen Gagarin to three years’ imprisonment for their respective roles in a scheme to commit wire fraud and identity theft involving fraudulent life insurance policies, announced U.S...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS - What started out as an idea by local county commissioners to reopen a popular farm to market road nineteen years ago continues to be a success not just for humans, but also for wintering wildlife. The absence of human disturbance created by the closure allows herds of deer, elk, and moose...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has selected the Eastern District of New York to receive additional resources for the fight against violent crime. The district will receive two additional Assistant U.S. Attorney positions to focus exclusively on violent crime, two of 40 new federal prosecutors in 27 selected locations throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -Stacey J. LaPorte, Jr., age 27, of Massena, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 95 years in federal prison, following his convictions for sexually exploiting four children including two babies, and receiving pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II, and Resident Agent in Charge Russell Linstad, Homeland Security Investigations, Massena, New York.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic leaders of the Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure and Appropriations committees sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today expressing their serious concerns regarding a no-bid contract awarded by EPA to Definers Public Affairs.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2018
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking information on an incident involving a wild burro, that left it injured, and resulted in its death, near Oatman.