News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Defendants Were Part of a Scheme that Made $30 Million in Profits by Trading on Press Releases Stolen by Hackers from Major Newswire Companies.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returned on Thursday from a week-long trip (June 28-July 5) to the Nordic and Baltic regions, where he met with U.S. and foreign officials in Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, and Finland. The trip, led ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the filing of a civil complaint against SAMUEL GENTLE, who was previously convicted of preparing fraudulent federal tax returns through a tax preparation business, to prohibit him from preparing tax returns for others or engaging in activities that substantially interfere with the administration of federal tax laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: James N. Hendricks Named Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Alleged Sinaloa Cartel member Arturo Lozano-Mendez aka “Garza" is in federal custody following his extradition from Mexico to the United States yesterday afternoon. Lozano made his initial appearance in federal court in El Paso this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney’s Office will prosecute aggressively violent criminals and drug dealers. Federal prosecution is a powerful tool in the fight to reduce violent crime. At least 85% of federal sentences must be served; there is no parole in the federal system. None. Sentences are served in prisons far from St. Louis. Below is a list of defendants prosecuted federally in June as a result of the hard work of police and agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: DAYTON -Aaron Pauly, 44, of St. Paris, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography by coercing and threatening juvenile females to send him sexually explicit images of themselves.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Johnson City, Texas -- Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park continues its popular outdoor “Movies Under the Stars" series on Saturday, July 14, with the screening of Walt Disney’s “The Love Bug." This comedy features a Volkswagen Beetle nicknamed “Herbie." Herbie has a mind of his own. During a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky, today returned a four-count indictment charging Jamie Derickson, a former deputy of the Powell County Detention Center, with violating the civil rights of an arrestee by conspiring with inmates at the detention center to assault the arrestee in a jail cell. Derickson is also charged with lying to the FBI about the assault.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C., July 6, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public input regarding regulatory options for Lacey Act declaration requirements for composite plant materials. The Lacey Act-which combats trafficking in illegally taken ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a Canyon Ferry Public Meeting on July 18, 2018. Topics of discussion will include information on campgrounds, marinas, the Shoreline Management Plan, Off-Highway Vehicle use, and Aquatic Invasive Species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Charles Hallinan, 77, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $2.5 million fine in connection with a scheme to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful debt obtained...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Alleged Sinaloa Cartel member Arturo Lozano-Mendez aka “Garza" is in federal custody following his extradition from Mexico to the United States yesterday afternoon. Lozano made his initial appearance in federal court in El Paso this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant Subject to Enhanced Penalty Due to Armed Career Criminal Status.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Three fires are active and one was contained yesterday in the BLM Elko District. More than 25,000 acres have been impacted and approximately 570 personnel are on the fire lines.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Moza LLC (Moza).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday hosted U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. The trip allowed the Secretary to visit the largest national forest in the United States and hear from local stakeholders about the need to build a stronger, more sustainable economy in southeast Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted correctional officer Jessica Vennie, age 28, of Crowley, Texas, on July 5, 2018, for racketeering at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland, as well as drug and money laundering conspiracies. The scheme involved paying bribes to correctional...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review draft environmental documents analyze the proposed issuance of a partial assignment of 1,300 acre-feet per year of Mercy Springs Water District’s Central Valley Project contract allocation and a full assignment of 4,000 acre-feet...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Justin Kohl, 31, Waupun, Wisconsin, was sentenced on July 2 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 36 months in federal prison for conspiring and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Kohl was convicted of three counts related to methamphetamine distribution after a court trial on April 9, 2018.
