News from January 2018
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that USDA invested in nearly 400 projects to provide essential services for more than 7 million people in rural areas across the country in Fiscal Year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: According to filed court documents and court proceedings, between Nov. 20, 2015, and Feb. 10, 2016, McCoy robbed six hotels and businesses in Cherokee, Swain and Jackson counties. According to court records, on Nov. 20,2015, at approximately 3:40 a.m., McCoy brandished a knife to an employee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard P. Donoghue announced today that the Eastern District of New York, working collaboratively with other offices as well as on its own, collected over $3.4 billion in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $3,109,923,738 resulted from cases handled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio today, a federal judge sentenced two former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry for participating in a marriage fraud scheme announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Javier Enriquez, Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility (CBP-OPR), El Paso Field Office; and, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) District Director Mario Ortiz.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Elizabethtown man pled guilty to two child exploitation offenses yesterday in United States District Court, announced United States Attorney Russel M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Sutton.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Park officials plan to burn piles of dead vegetation in various locations within Arches National Park in late January and February as weather conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Connecticut Resident Sentenced to Prison for Concealing Assets in Swiss Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former Vermilion Parish middle school teacher was sentenced last week to 70 years in prison for making and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Reynaldo Martinez opened, used retail credit accounts worth tens of thousands of dollars using stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Ivan Reyes, age 30, of Calumet City, Illinois was charged by Complaint with the Murders of Lauren Calvillo and Christopher White.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Primex Clinical Laboratories, LLC has agreed to pay $3,500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks in exchange for laboratory referrals for patient pharmacogenetic testing. In a related settlement, Mitch Edland, the Chief Executive Officer and owner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty in Odometer and Title Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against James Bowen, 39, of Fresno, today charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license, and possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are constantly aiming to improve preparedness and response operations and the technology that supports critical incidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A local bar owner has entered a guilty plea to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by failing to pay taxes on income he received from vending machines located in the bars he owned, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: With The Murders Of Lauren Calvillo and Christopher White.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a man from Calgary, who was convicted of Attempted Trafficking in Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor, was sentenced on Jan. 19, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), and George P. Beach II, the...
