News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy released the following statement after the Department of Justice announced indictment charges against twelve Russian nationals for committing federal crimes intended to interfere with the 2016 election.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park will serve as both the location and inspiration for the seventh annual Plein Air for the Park event. Grand Teton National Park, Grand Teton Association, and Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters will welcome 40 professional artists from across the United States to capture the magnificent Teton landscape on canvas. Beginning July 16, the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters will host a number of free public demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Jeffrey John Abraham (52, formerly of Tampa) has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances not specified in his Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration. He faces a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Verenys Parra Arellanez, 23, of San Bernardino, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney will lead a trade mission July 16-19, joined by U.S. business and state government leaders seeking to expand agricultural export opportunities in Southeast Asia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Eugene Robert LeClear, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Indiana, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one day in prison, six months of community confinement and six months of home confinement on her conviction of embezzling from a federally insured bank, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Aaron P. Arnzen (619) 546-8384 and Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: In partnership with the National Park Service, Eastern National would like to invite you to meet author John R. Scales on Saturday July 21, 2018, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Scales will be available inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center to sign his recently released publication, The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. --The Bureau of Land Management will implement fire restrictions for public lands managed by the Eagle Lake and Applegate field offices in Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra, Shasta and Siskiyou counties in California and in Washoe County, Nevada. The restrictions go into effect Friday, July 20, and will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Adam Lemar Miles, a/k/a “NoStress," 46, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ursula M. Ungaro to a total of 108 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Six defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing expensive cars from dealerships in three states, altering their Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN), and fraudulently obtaining new titles for the cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: The wife of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release and a fine of $25,000 today based on her conviction for felony tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Victim Cited #MeToo Movement in Coming Forward in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced the forfeiture of $765,850.27 seized from Southern Pines residents Mukesh and Daxaban Patel and their company, Shree Zapesvari, Inc., doing business as Jay’s Food Mart 1 and 2. Under the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Vidal Sheen, 58, St. Louis County, Missouri, pled guilty to obstructing an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") regarding whether he billed the Medicare program and private insurers for “face to face" office visits performed on dates when he was actually traveling outside of Missouri, and sometimes traveling outside of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on July 13, 2018, Travis Scott Ruhl, 38, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to six years and five months (77 months) in prison for distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine actual. Following the prison term, Ruhl will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to shooting a U.S. diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Five Miami-Dade return preparers were charged with filing false tax returns with the IRS, in an indictment unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jerry T. Vertefeuille, 53, of Niceville, and Christopher A. Carter, 37, of Fort Walton Beach, pleaded guilty on July 11 and June 28, respectively, to conspiracy (to commit theft of honest services and wire fraud) and bribery of a public official. Additionally, Vertefeuille pleaded...
