News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Michael Brooks, 30 years old, of Lynwood, Illinois, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen after pleading guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a violent MS-13 clique was sentenced today to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced former Maryland State Senator Nathaniel Thomas Oaks, age 71, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for one count of wire fraud and one count of honest services wire fraud. Judge Bennett also ordered that Oaks pay a fine of $30,000 and perform 80 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: New Indictment Adds Obstruction of Justice Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that efforts to increase violent crime prosecutions in the Shreveport area are having a positive effect on crime rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was on Probation for Gun Offense at Time of Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Schuele Boys Gang member Antwon Steward, a/k/a Stacks, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita lawyer and a computer software engineer were charged today in a federal indictment alleging they were responsible for cyberattacks on web sites that posted information critical of the lawyer’s work, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Reid L. Babcock, age 48, of Binghamton, was sentenced today to serve 17 and ½ years in prison and a life term of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to receiving and downloading child pornography images from the internet, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Charles Margiotta, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. and David Harder, Broome County Sheriff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that RODOLFO SABLON, a/k/a “Rudy," pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and fraud in connection with a tender offer for his role in an insider...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management today began a 15-day scoping period for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process to evaluate offering approximately 329,826 acres of federal minerals in Utah for oil and gas leasing. The public scoping comment period ends at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Interior-Environment and Financial Services and General Government minibus that fails the American people by slashing environmental protection, rolling back consumer protections, and even cutting basic election security funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced in federal court after being convicted of multiple charges related to the October 2016 kidnapping, carjacking, and shooting of two individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Lavyette Garcia Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison and Ordered to Pay $72,452.00 in Restitution to the U.S. Treasury Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The FBI Washington Field Office seeks assistance from the public to identify a female serial bank robber named the “Fake Hair Don’t Care Bandit," who is suspected of committing five bank robberies in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the first loan guarantee solicitation for the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (TELGP) under DOE's Loan Programs Office. This solicitation provides as much as $2 billion in partial loan guarantees to support economic opportunities for Native American and Alaska Native communities through energy development projects and activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced the convictions of former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS and his son ADAM SKELOS on bribery, extortion, and honest services fraud counts, following a five-week jury trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former management analyst for the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) was sentenced today to 56 months in prison on charges stemming from schemes in which she accepted bribes in return for clearing the way for payments to be made on fraudulent invoices that cost the D.C. government more than $480,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Fulton, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a three count indictment that charged him with manufacturing a firearm silencer, in violation of the National Firearms Act, to possession of the illegally made firearm silencer, and to being a drug user in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Created Images Documenting His Sexual Abuse of Minors, and Posing as a Minor Online, Requested Minors to Create and Send Him Sexually Explicit Photos of Themselves Via Social Media.
