News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant directed clients to file almost a half million dollars in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL S. WRIGHT was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to 21 months in prison for commodities fraud in connection with WRIGHT’s operation of an investment fund, Wright Time Capital...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Florence, South Carolina, returned an Indictment against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Taunton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for the armed kidnapping of a Quincy man and two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Juan Carlos Martinez-Recarte, 38, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen, to time served (about four months) in prison for illegally entering and being found in the United States after having been removed. The defendant pleaded guilty on Nov. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Massachusetts Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today the convictions of a local business owner for obstructing a federal investigation and failing to pay his workers overtime wages.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management recently named Brent Ralston as the new manager for the Four Rivers Field Office and will host an open house for the public to meet him on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Boise District Office at 3948 Development Ave., Boise, ID, 83705.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Residents of the Tri-State region of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside the Huntington Tri-State Airport terminal February 2 - 9, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" TSA Pre✓® enrollment center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alabama man pleaded guilty today to his role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving a contract for the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TERRELL CARNEY, age 36, of New Orleans, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARVIN OYUELA LOPEZ, age 30, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
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: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New (“NYPD"), and George P. Beach II, the Superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - In San Antonio, a federal judge sentenced 46-year-old Reymundo Villarreal-(aka “Mundo") of Mission, TX, to 20 years imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Jeremy Achey (43, Bethlehem, PA) guilty of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of controlled substance analogues. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 13, 2018.
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 on Jan. 23, 2018, Joseph Uvalle, 35, of Chicago Heights, IL, was sentenced to 276 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release following his conviction by guilty plea to conspiracy to commit racketeering activity (RICO) as a member of the Latin Kings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Tampa, Fla., man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - James Cunningham, 61, of Laconia, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to four counts of distributing methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) took urgent action to designate security clearances as one of the most significant “High Risk" programs across the federal government. In making today’s designation, GAO broke from its traditional process of updating its High Risk List at only two-year intervals, expressing greater urgency about the need to address problems with the nation’s security clearance process.
