News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant, Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood, Faces 25 Years of Imprisonment under Plea Agreement.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Pursuant to an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) led El Dorado Task Force, two Florida men were arrested Tuesday for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with their ownership and operation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Judge Sentences German National to Over 7 Years in Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Saguaro National Park News Release. August 2018. Contacts: Saguaro West - Richard Hill (520) 733-5158, 2700 N. Kinney Rd. Saguaro East - Melanie Florez (520) 733-5151, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail. Saguaro National Park August Program Schedule. Saguaro National Park is offering a variety of walks and talks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A retired Massachusetts State Police Trooper was arrested and charged today in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and three key House Democratic colleagues sent a letter to President Trump today urging him to extend financial relief to American fishermen and women reeling from his failed tariff battle with China. The letter points out that Trump’s tariffs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Two alleged participants in a billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA using Miami, Florida real estate and sophisticated false-investment schemes were arrested yesterday and today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Senate, took to the Senate floor to outline her opposition to Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, 41-year-old Piper Lee of San Antonio, pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the shooting of a U.S. Mail carrier last year in Spring Branch, TX, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor to recognize the important and underappreciated work that federal workers do every day and voice opposition to President...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Kevin Lamarcus Mitchell, 20, of Moss Point, pled guilty yesterday, before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury today indicted three men for illegally possessing firearms because of previous felony convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, and U.S. Marshal Martin Keely.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident and citizen of Russia was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his alleged role in an international procurement network that smuggled over $65 million worth of electronics from the United States to Russia in violation of export control laws, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington - On July 12, 2018, Plainville Livestock Commission Inc., and Tyler D. Gillum of Plainville, Kansas (collectively, Plainville), a market agency selling livestock on commission subject to the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act, entered into a Consent Decree with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury today indicted three men for illegally possessing firearms because of previous felony convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, and U.S. Marshal Martin Keely.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia woman pleaded guilty today in connection with her role in a long-running interstate prostitution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Donald Eric McRoy, 53, of Biloxi, pled guilty yesterday, on the second day of his trial before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a company that provided durable medical equipment pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud for carrying out a scheme in which she fraudulently obtained more than $9.4 million in District of Columbia Medicaid payments.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on recent proposals issued by the Department of the Interior to address longstanding issues with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and compensatory mitigation policy.
