News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jonathon Popple, 34, Baraboo, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Popple pleaded guilty to this charge on April 18, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), and former Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) led 18 of their Committee colleagues in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding the U.S. Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Real Estate Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three illegal aliens were indicted today by a federal grand jury reentry charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida will join the Leon County Sheriff’s Office tomorrow to present a BLAST (“Building Lasting Relationships Between Police and Community") Program as part of the three-day “Reality Check with LCSO" event.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: New Defendants Include the President of Nxivm and Members of its Executive Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On July 19, 2018, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging Dr. Miguel Rivera-Sanabria with 18 counts of health care fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, three counts of false statement relating to health care matters, and eight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Two U.S. citizens, charged with federal violations, have been transferred from the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to U.S. law enforcement custody and arrived today in the Northern District Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kurt Downs, age 28, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan, was indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting two other inmates and assaulting correctional officers in the performance of their duties.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration is accepting applications nationwide beginning July 27 from people interested in becoming air traffic controllers. The job announcement may close prior to the listed closing date of July 31 if a sufficient applicant pool has been reached to meet the needs of the FAA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Michael D. Jackson, 37, of Lexington, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiring to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl, more than an ounce of crack cocaine, and more than half a kilo of cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A British man was successfully repatriated back to the United Kingdom by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers July 24, following his conviction for involvement in a conspiracy to illegally export sensitive technologies to Syria, subsequent to an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with support from the Department of Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 19-year-old U.S. citizen who resided in Matamoros, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for smuggling methamphetamine through the local port of entry, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Brenda Guerra Rios pleaded guilty Jan. 17, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the final ruling issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) allowing them to resume Obamacare’s risk adjustment payments...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Raymond Hoak, of Kearnysville, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal income tax laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Iduar Acosta Fernandez, age 29, of Carrollton, Texas, pled guilty to Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, punishable by not more than 30 years imprisonment, up to a $1,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a firearm July 24 in the carry-on baggage of a male passenger traveling from the Bismarck Airport (BIS) to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned a third superseding indictment today charging Mark Cook, age 39, with additional counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and two counts of interstate prostitution.
