News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a former manager at Equifax, pleaded guilty today to a charge of insider trading based on his purchases of options ahead of Equifax’s public announcement of its data breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - On Friday, Kevin Labracio Frazier was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Mario Javier Jauregui-Alvidrez, 43, a Mexican national, with a methamphetamine trafficking offense arising out of the seizure of ten pounds of methamphetamine at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in southern New Mexico on July 16, 2018. Jauregui-Alvidrez was remanded into custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man who worked as a paramedic and EMT for several emergency medical transportation companies pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing fentanyl and morphine and replacing the drugs with saline solution.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture cancellations of optional origin sales totaling 165,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2018/2019 marketing year. An optional origin contract provides that the origin of the commodity may be the U.S. or one or more other exporting countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today joined Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, announcing a measure they introduced condemning President Trump’s actions at the Helsinki summit and reaffirming America’s commitment to NATO. Rep. Engel’s remarks follow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Verona man today admitted possessing three guns as a previously convicted felon, including a replica Thompson submachine gun that he modified into a working automatic firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
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: Defendant Fired Numerous Shots at Crips Gang Member in Hempstead.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on July 11, 2018, a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia returned a sealed indictment. That indictment has now been unsealed, revealing charges against 23 individuals. An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct, and all of the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darmatrice Love and Kenyata Boudreaux, both of Detroit Michigan, have been sentenced for their roles in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Giving back to their communities is a common motivator for the Native American students who serve as summer interns with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs at Sandia National Laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing eight firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Traveling to Haiti and Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District, Wells Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse water gather on or about July 23, from the Deer Spring area, located in the Antelope Valley Herd Management Area (HMA), as there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Bonner Springs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Steven M. Lukach, Jr., age 68, of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on twenty counts of mail and wire fraud and manufacturing records to obstruct an investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced today the appointment of three new Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs). Each were sworn in today by Mr. Higdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: FBI and Aliquippa Police Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Aliquippa Robber.
