News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Enticement of a Minor and Child Pornography Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Gretna man was sentenced Monday to 121 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine after Lafayette police officers recovered multiple controlled substances and a weapon from his former residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Healogics Agrees to Pay Up to $22.51 Million to Settle False Claims Act Liability for Improper Billing of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A North Providence, RI, dentist pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on Tuesday to tax evasion, admitting that he diverted and failed to report as much as $1.2 million dollars in payments made to his business, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch and Kristina O'Connell, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident who used KIK Messenger to view more than 2,000 images and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: On June 15, 2018, a federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, convicted Vero Beach attorney Eric B. Granitur, 60, of participating in a criminal conspiracy and making false statements to a federally insured institution.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today expressed deep concern about the implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs recently imposed by the president under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and sought assurances that the Department of Commerce will make exclusion decisions free of political interference or persuasion.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Montana Contractor Compensation Fund (MCCF) have signed an alliance to protect employees from construction industry hazards. MCCF is a group insurance company formed by the Montana Contractors Association to help control workers’ compensation costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a felon from West Monroe was sentenced last week to 21 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Four teachers from the Clark County School District were selected to participate in BLM’s Teachers on Public Lands program. The program gives teachers opportunities to work as interns on public lands during their summer breaks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KENZIE FAULK, age 58, of New Orleans, was sentenced on June 14 by United States District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette-Brown to credit for time served, for violating federal gun and drug laws. The United States Attorney’s Office charged KENZIE FAULK with possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon and conspiracy to possess marijuana with the intent to distribute.
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 Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and 26 fellow Senators today introduced the Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act, which keeps families together while ensuring the integrity of our nation’s immigration laws. The legislation requires that children and their parents remain together during their legal proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Two Colorado Financial Services Executives Sentenced in Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme.
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: Amir Said Rahman Al-Ghazi, 41, aka Robert C. McCollum, of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for one count of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, as well as two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an indictment has been unsealed today charging Calvin Roeder, 31, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with two counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: (RIVERHEAD, N.Y.) - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini; and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart, was joined by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service today to announce the indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Saul Guzman Ontiveros, age 42, of Terrytown, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to attempting to purchase 5 kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Two Awareness Seminars Sponsored by Office of Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission on June 20-21, 2018 in Albuquerque.
