News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Also Collected Over $9 Million in Asset Forfeitures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Stolen ID Refund Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Discussing the 1/23/18 Bank Robbery with Shots Fired at Law Enforcement Officers.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Egypt during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will ask members of the Natural Resources Committee at tomorrow’s hearing on the fate of Bears Ears National Monument to sign a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke urging him to withdraw the land inside the monument’s traditional, lawful...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Hyunkook Korsiak, 36, of Harpswell, Maine was sentenced today by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen in U.S. District Court to 52 months in prison for theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Richard Steven Johnson, 41, of Rio Linda, California, and Jarred Alexander Goldman, 32, of Palm Beach Gardens, were arrested today, after being charged with conspiring to steal and stealing a 17th century gold bar on or about Aug. 18, 2010, from the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman was charged in federal district court with 20 counts of Wire Fraud and 5 counts of Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A political consultant from Essex County, New Jersey, today admitted her role in a fraud scheme related to contracts with the Newark Watershed Development Corp. (NWCDC) and kickbacks to officials there, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Anthony Barth, 26, of Derry, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: The odds are good that when this Republican-controlled Congress closes up shop in December, it’ll have spent more time and effort on legislation attacking women’s health than on any other issue. They’re back at it today, and this latest attack goes after women’s control of their own health care choices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Eight Individuals Charged With Deceptive Trading Practices Executed on U.S. Commodities Markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Diosme Fernandez Hano (44, Hialeah) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison and Reinaldo Arrastia-Cardoso (48, Hialeah) to 10 years in federal prison for armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. A federal jury found Hano and Arrastia-Cardosowere guilty on Oct. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted he distributed child pornography, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor denouncing an extreme, unconstitutional Republican proposal that would control women’s health care decisions by banning abortions after 20 weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to compel the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found Jimmy D. Maldonado, 37, and Mayra L. Maldonado, 31, both of Fresno, guilty of three counts of wire fraud in a scheme to fraudulently obtain payments from a military recruitment program for the California Army National Guard, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: A former Major at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found guilty Friday in federal court for conspiring to cover up the beating of a handcuffed and shackled inmate, and for writing a false report, falsifying official records, and lying under oath about what happened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DEREK BROOMES, the former president and chief executive officer (“CEO") of a nonprofit housing organization based in Harlem, New York (the “Housing Nonprofit"), pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathanial Fox to abusing his position at the Housing Nonprofit to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PETER J. SANTOS, 41, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for threatening a federal official. On June 2, 2017, a jury found SANTOS guilty of the offense.
