News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: School Owner Pleads Guilty to Bribing Public Official at VA Program for Disabled Military Veterans.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), held a hearing to examine the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), discuss its importance, and address known challenges within the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Darrell Rosen, age 59, formerly of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in federal Prison followed by three years supervised release and ordered to pay a total...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VIRGINIA BLANCO was found guilty on all counts of a three-count Indictment yesterday that charged her with participating in the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Yonkers, New York, in October 2013...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: A documented associate of the brutal international gang MS-13 is at-large and wanted for his role in operating an interstate prostitution ring, which also included the trafficking of a known minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today announced that County Ambulance, Inc. (“County Ambulance"), of Ellsworth, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States and the State of Maine in which it will pay $16,776.74 to resolve allegations that it submitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Today, after President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and subsequent remarks in Helsinki, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) motioned for the House Judiciary Committee to adjourn the current hearing on social media filtering and go into executive session, in order to discuss threats to our electoral process from Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Allentown Man Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison for Threats Against the President, Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of Eelon Training Academy (“Eelon"), a privately owned, non-accredited school purporting to specialize in digital media courses, pleaded guilty today to bribing a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ziyaya Mtola, 44, of Capetown, South Africa, who was convicted following a jury trial of assaulting a federal officer and destroying government property, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Following the completion of his sentence, the defendant will be deported to South Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Cambria County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Bashir Masaoud, 31, an inmate at FCI-Berlin, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for assaulting staff members at the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Nicholas E. Fogarty, 36, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison today, after being convicted on March 13 of advertisement of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. Fogarty will also be required to register as a sex offender. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SHARPSBURG, Md. - Whether you visit Antietam National Battlefield to walk in the footsteps of a Civil War soldier or go for your morning run, the National Park Service (NPS) is transforming the way you experience and understand this historic landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Anthony Estrada, 24, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 30 months in prison for his conviction on a felony information charging him with using interstate communications to threaten the lives and safety of children at a Las Cruces public elementary school. Estrada will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, during a business meeting of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans blocked consideration of six more Democratic requests to allow Members to offer, debate, and vote on subpoenas-bringing the total number of subpoena motions denied by Oversight Committee Republicans during Donald Trump’s Presidency to 52.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ST. LOUIS - William J. Callahan, III was appointed Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) of the DEA St. Louis Division and reported for duty on July 10, 2018. SAC Callahan is already hard at work finding innovative ways to tackle the drug and gang related violence that has been plaguing Missouri, Kansas and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Littleton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Carol J. Dotson was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment on wire fraud charges. She was also ordered to pay restitution in excess of $2,043,248 million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the July 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
