News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Riverside Man and Office Manager Indicted on Federal Charges Alleging They Operated a Fraudulent Debt-Elimination Scheme That Targeted Distressed Homeowners During the Housing Crisis.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold a hearing next Wednesday to better understand the status of the recovery from the 2017 disaster season, including hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, as well as efforts to prepare for the 2018 hurricane season which began on June 1st.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Shawn Ryan Budovic, who targeted very young children for sexual exploitation, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: If Convicted, James Highfield Faces Enhanced Penalty of Statutory Mandatory Minimum of 35 Years to Life Imprisonment Due to Prior Sex Offense Convictions; Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A jury convicted a Columbia, Kentucky man yesterday following a five-day jury trial in United States District Court on charges of arson and insurance fraud, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. The defendant set the fire, which destroyed his home, in order to collect on a $50,000 rental insurance policy. An Adair County Volunteer Firefighter died while fighting the fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Rome, Ga. - Barry Shedd has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine less than two months after his release from state custody.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday July 28, and on Sunday, July 29, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host a special youth-focused living history encampment at Point Park on Lookout Mountain. Living historians with the Western Federal Infantry will provide young people opportunities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG - United States Attorney Bill Powell is applauding Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the creation of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), which, in the Northern District of West Virginia, will focus on a surge in prosecutions of those distributing fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in Berkeley County. Berkeley County saw the highest rate of overdose deaths in the district in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VEDOUTIE HOOBRAJ, a/k/a “Shivonie Deokaran," was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with her scheme to defraud donors by falsely claiming that she had been diagnosed with...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Effective Friday, Friday, July 13 at 8 a.m., the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will lift all fire restrictions for public lands administered by the Phoenix District and the Colorado River District. Due to widespread precipitation across the area, additional rain in the weather forecast, and a rise in fuel moistures, it has been determined that the likelihood of wildfire has lessened to the degree that the restrictions can be rescinded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VEDOUTIE HOOBRAJ, a/k/a “Shivonie Deokaran," was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with her scheme to defraud donors by falsely claiming that she had been diagnosed with...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected seven projects to receive approximately $2.8 million in federal funding for research and development projects that support fossil energy research at colleges and universities nationwide, including minority institutions. Projects...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Victim Was Pistol-Whipped and Robbed in Broad Daylight.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment Thursday against Javier Beltran, 34, of Strathmore, and Ulises Medina, 24, of Earlimart, charging them with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, interference with commerce by robbery, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Joseph Laurence Bonds, a/k/a/ Joe, a/k/a Yo Gotti, age 36, to 90 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang’s Greenmount Avenue Regime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Gary Davis, a/k/a “Libertas," was extradited from the Republic of Ireland to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan M. Bazis sentenced Curtina Morris, 48, of Macy, Nebraska, on July 11, 2018, to 12 months’ imprisonment after her conviction of misdemeanor assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Marivel Cantu-Madril, 40, of Oro Valley, Ariz., was arraigned today in federal court in Tucson, Ariz., on an indictment charging her with mail fraud and forging judicial signatures. Cantu-Madril entered a not guilty plea during the arraignment hearing and was released on conditions of release pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a markup for Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
