News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to dissolve the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: A Wooster man was charged with sexually exploiting children, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Joseph Sterling Goin, 24, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Judge Lodge also ordered Goin to serve three years of supervised release upon his release from federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced its decision to allow nonprofit churches and other houses of worship to receive FEMA funding after natural disasters occur...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ERNESTO CONTRERAS-REYES, age 43, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Wellington, Nevada resident was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steve W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of Maria Chapa Lopez as Interim United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546, which provides that “the Attorney General may appoint a United States Attorney for the district in which the office of United States Attorney is vacant." This appointment will take effect on January 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – This week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen traveled to California to tour areas impacted by the devastating wildfires. In California, Secretary Nielsen pledged the federal government’s support to help rebuild affected communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the opening of the grant solicitation period for comprehensive funding to federally-recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and tribal consortia to support public safety, victim services and crime prevention.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: A former executive pleaded guilty today in the District of New Jersey for his role in a conspiracy to eliminate competition by rigging bids, allocating customers, and fixing the price for liquid aluminum sulfate sold to municipalities and pulp and paper companies in the United States. Brian C. Steppig, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: A former executive managing director of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (Och-Ziff), a New York-based hedge fund, was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged participation in a scheme to defraud one of the hedge fund’s clients, a large charitable foundation, when recommending financial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of 17 federal prosecutors as Interim United States Attorneys pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546. In a number of United States Attorney’s Offices across the country, First Assistant United States Attorneys are currently serving as Acting United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Nigel Garrett, 21, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for assaulting a man because of the victim’s sexual orientation, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas, and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Dallas Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: A North Carolina convicted felon pleaded guilty today to mailing a threatening communication and retaliating against a federal official in the Western District of North Carolina. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte Field Office and U.S. Marshal Kelly M. Nesbit of the U.S. Marshals Service made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty today of conspiring with others, including Reza Zarrab, aka Riza Sarraf, who previously pleaded guilty to evading U.S. sanctions among other offenses, to use the U.S. financial system to conduct transactions on behalf of the Government of Iran and other Iranian entities, ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on December 12-13, 2017. A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Unterschleissheim, Germany, to establish a representative office in New York, New York.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 3, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand.
