News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - In a published opinion issued yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the carjacking and firearms convictions and sentence of Lindsey Johnson, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
Release: Washington - FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-008-18, issued at 9:00am on Jan. 24, which announced export sales of 125,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations in the 2017/2018 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is moving the previously announced January meeting of the Boise District Resource Advisory Council to Feb. 22, 2018 at 3948 Development Ave., Boise, ID, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The change is due to a scheduling conflict.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Detroit-Area Podiatrist Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Virginia man of committing a hate crime for assaulting a co-worker at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Chester in May 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: NEW LENOX, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Supplyside USA, a New Lenox-based pallet manufacturer, for machine safety violations after an employee was injured while conducting maintenance on equipment. The company faces $91,832 in proposed penalties for two repeated, six serious, and three other-than-serious violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Ludwig, 45, of Fairport, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with theft of mail matter by a postal employee. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The National Park Service, in conjunction with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, is seeking information about the recent poaching of a pregnant cow elk within Zion National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Trussville man to more than 15 years in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced for Conspiring to Illegally Export Radiation Hardened Integrated Circuits to Russia and China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former IRS attorney appeared in federal court today to face charges related to his alleged unauthorized use of a federal agency identification card during multiple traffic stops, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a woman who owned a Shreveport tax preparation business pleaded guilty Monday to filing false taxes for herself and her clients even after her electronic filing number was revoked.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Gonzalo De La Fuente, 23, and Alejandro Boynak, 35, both citizens of Argentina who came to the United States on tourist visas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to serve 17 months in federal prison for possessing and passing counterfeit currency in Meridian, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARCUS TYSON, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG), to request an investigation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced a deal today between the United States Attorney’s Office and Rite Aid Corporation to resolve a criminal investigation in the Southern District of West Virginia regarding Rite Aid’s improper sale of the methamphetamine precursor pseudoephedrine...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - A powerful earthquake off the coast of Alaska caused water to slosh in Devils Hole, in Death Valley National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joshua Brackett, age 33, of Gansevoort, New York, was ordered detained on Monday following his January 19 arrest on charges of distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was convicted today of stealing trade secrets from AMSC, a U.S.-based company formerly known as American Superconductor Inc., announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage woman was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve three years in federal prison for embezzling more than $750,000 from her employer, and for submitting false tax returns to the IRS.
