News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: DNA is often considered the most reliable form of forensic evidence, and this reputation is based on the way DNA experts use statistics. When they compare the DNA left at a crime scene with the DNA of a suspect, experts generate statistics that describe how closely those DNA samples match. A jury can then take those match statistics into account when deciding guilt or innocence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KATHY SCOTT and GEORGE SANTIAGO JR., both former New York State Correction Officers, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 100 months and 87 months, respectively, for the Nov. 12, 2013, beating of Kevin Moore, an inmate at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York, and for falsifying records to cover up the beating.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON E. MONTROLL, a/k/a “Ukyo," pled guilty today to securities fraud and obstruction of justice. MONTROLL, who issued and sold securities related to a bitcoin investment platform that he ran through false...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Jahraun Malachi Brodhurst, 26, of St. Croix, was sentenced on Friday, July 20, 2018, before District Court Chief Judge Wilma A. Lewis to 21 months’ imprisonment for his convictions of unlawfully mailing a firearm and possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Judge Lewis also sentenced Brodhurst to 3 years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine, and a $200 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office William F. Sweeney Jr. announced that an Algerian man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists. United States District Judge Petrese B. Tucker presided over the proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: San Diego Bank Robberies on Consecutive Days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Jenelle Robyn Pinkston, 50, of Corvalis, Oregon and formally of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain income tax refunds, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: LAKEVIEW, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council. The public is welcome to attend the meeting, which will occur on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7-8, at the Lakeview Interagency Offices, 1301 S. G St., Lakeview, Ore., beginning at 8 a.m. each day.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Tinkering with a method they helped develop over the last few years, scientists have for the first time used it to measure at the nanometer scale the characteristic patterns of folds that give proteins their three-dimensional shape in water. Developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following the arrest of NRA-linked Russian national Maria Butina, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore, along with Senate Finance Committee members Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., requested financial information from the Treasury Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found RAYMOND McLAUGHLIN, also known as “Shakir Ra Ade Bey" and “Shakir Ade Bey," 45, of East Hartford, guilty of one count of making a false statement on a federal tax form. The trial before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea began on July 19 and the jury returned its verdict this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Scott Radtke, 56, of Clovis, was arraigned today on a nine-count indictment charging him with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
Release: CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered two loaded firearms in separate incidents at the Charleston International Airport (CHS) security checkpoint today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., along with Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., applauded the Senate’s passage of legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky man who robbed over $32,000 from a bank in Wayne County pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Steve Ray Meeks, 62, of Louisa, Kentucky, entered his guilty plea to bank robbery. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, the Louisa, Kentucky, Police Department, the Kentucky State Police, and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KATHY SCOTT and GEORGE SANTIAGO JR., both former New York State Correction Officers, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 100 months and 87 months, respectively, for the Nov. 12, 2013, beating of Kevin Moore, an inmate at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York, and for falsifying records to cover up the beating.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New York Division, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II announced one arrest and the seizure of approximately 30 kilograms of suspected cocaine hidden in a car on Grand Island, New York.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: This Congress, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) worked to gather input from and build consensus amongst his Republican and Democratic colleagues, the administration, and stakeholders on an infrastructure package designed to meet the challenges of a 21st century transportation system. Today, Shuster released a legislative discussion draft reflecting that input.
