News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Bossier City man previously convicted of a felony was sentenced to three years in prison for unlawfully possessing a.40-caliber pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: A Marion man was indicted in federal court for having fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following serious concerns raised by federal ethics officials about questionable stock trades by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today formally requested a Justice Department investigation whether the trades violated federal law.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Lake Mead National Recreation Area is celebrating Latino Conservation Week with a virtual film festival and bilingual activities at the Lake Mead Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: A Marion man was indicted in federal court for having fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Michael McEarchern has been sentenced for attempting to hire someone to kill his ex-wife, promising $10,000 and two Atlanta Hawks basketball tickets as payment for the murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three owners and/or managers of Los Angeles, California-area foreclosure rescue companies, Dorothy Matsuba, Jamie Matsuba, and Thomas Matsuba, were sentenced to 240, 135, and 168 months in prison today for their roles in a foreclosure rescue scheme, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in producing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman today announced the arrests and indictments of eight defendants from Taylor and Marion Counties on conspiracy charges to sell methamphetamine and cocaine. Multiple law enforcement agencies including the Kentucky State Police (KSP), the Columbia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on July 10, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in a firearms offense in the Village of Fox Crossing in Winnebago County. The indictment named Nicholas O. Nelson (age: 35) of Milwaukee. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Nine people were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A federal jury in Victoria has returned guilty verdicts on all counts as charged related to the 2017 burning of the local mosque.
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Foreign Affairs Committee members Reps. Norma Torres, Adriano Espaillat, Albio Sires, and Joaquin Castro today issued the following statement on reports that the Trump Administration has failed to comply with a court order to reunify children under the age of five with their parents because some of the parents have been deported...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $267 million in 103 infrastructure projects (PDF, 298 KB) to upgrade water and wastewater systems in rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Hunter, 22, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms, was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: William Pritula, 69, of Romulus pleaded guilty to paying co-defendant James Warner, a field inspector at the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA), over $5 million in bribes and kickbacks between May of 2010 and August of 2014, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Georgetown man, Nicholas Aaron Willinger, 34, has been sentenced to 190 months in federal prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for knowingly receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Reagan M. Taylor will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s Election Day Program for the upcoming Aug. 2, 2018, primary election. AUSA Taylor has...
