News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH- After a lengthy Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking and violence in Pittsburgh’s West End neighborhoods and other communities in the Greater Pittsburgh area, 28 people, all residents of Western Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL PENN, age 41, of Tickfaw, was sentenced on June 13 by United States District Court Judge Susie Morgan to a term of imprisonment 72 months for violating a federal drug law, conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Real estate investor Stuart Hankin pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids, in violation of antitrust law, at online public foreclosure auctions in Florida, the Department of Justice announced. He is the first defendant to plead guilty in this conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - James Ricky Johnson, Jr., 40, of Sullivan, MO, pled guilty on Monday to four counts of Production and Possession of Child Pornography charges. Johnson appeared before United States District Henry E. Autrey and sentencing is set for Sept. 18, 2018.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In remarks on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, challenged the Senate to assert its constitutional authority on trade policy by passing his bipartisan legislation to require congressional approval of tariffs designated under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Excerpts of the senator’s remarks follow.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation's Willow Creek Dam near Augusta, Montana, is experiencing high inflows as a result of heavy rain in the greater Sun River Basin. The current reservoir elevation is 2 feet above the normal full level, and has reached the elevation of the uncontrolled spillway. Inflows into Willow Creek Reservoir are currently averaging about 1,000 cubic feet-per-second, and are slowly decreasing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Today, House Democrats, led by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol to introduce the Keep Families Together Act, H.R. 6135, legislation to end family separation at the U.S. border. H.R. 6135 is the House companion to legislation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging DIEGO ISIDRO CHAJ-RAMOS, age 38, of Guatemala, with Misuse of a Social Security Account Number, False Claim of United States Citizenship with Intent to Engage Unlawfully in Employment in the United States, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Ulises Martinez-Garcia, age 31, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Reentry of Removed Alien, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. United States District Judge Mary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Shreveport felon was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine and a pistol in his car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant, a United States Citizen, Attempted to Travel to Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon today sentenced a Huntsville man to 15 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Everett James, 60 of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the Social Security Administration and theft of government funds. James appeared this morning in before Richard Webber and sentencing is set for Sept. 18, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler and House Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, released the following joint statement on President Donald Trump’s family separation executive order...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order reversing his family separation policy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Nickels are ubiquitous in American life, tumbling around in pockets, rolling under car seats, and emerging from the back of dryers to be used over and over for countless purchases. But these resilient and somewhat humble-looking coins are also becoming costly to produce. Nickel, the coin’s own namesake, has become a prized ingredient in many modern products, pushing the market value so much that sometimes making the five-cent coin costs as much as seven cents a pop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin Safford, age 33, of Amsterdam, New York, pled guilty today to possessing child pornography and to accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: YourPassNow provides an alternative to the traditional paper-based, in-person purchase method while simultaneously providing public lands with a tool to help manage the visitor experience. Using a computer or a personal device, visitors can purchase park entrance passes from yourpassnow.com at no additional...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to join him in a bipartisan investigation to examine laws regulating charitable organizations. Wyden called for the investigation to include the Trump Foundation. The Finance Committee has Congressional oversight over tax-exempt organizations and has a longstanding, bipartisan history when it comes to investigating the misuse of charities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALEXANDER FERNANDEZ, a/k/a “Det," a/k/a “D," a/k/a “Fat D," a/k/a “Gordo," was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for murdering Edwin Honoret, 28, in Manhattan in August 2000. FERNANDEZ pled guilty on March 2, 2018, before U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, who imposed the sentence.
