News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on June 11, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: St. Louis -The Department of Justice announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Peter C. Chang, founder and former chief executive officer of a Sunnyvale-based fiber optics equipment maker, was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for insider trading and tender offer fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Former Government House Security Officer Neal Chesterfield, 41, was sentenced before District Judge Curtis Gomez to 70 months incarceration for his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced today. Gomez also sentenced Chesterfield to five years of supervised release and $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: DENVER - George Amaya, age 29, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced on June 8, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 264 months in federal prison for drug and firearm trafficking, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Debbie Livingston announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Democracy Promotion in a Challenging World.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, Over Denial of Zoning Approval for Orthodox Jewish House of Worship.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Four House Democratic committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today demanding answers on their involvement in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to ask a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Moquino, 39, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to an assault charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Joe Courtney (D-CT), co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Coast Guard Caucus, sent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: ELBERT MOORE, age 36, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today before the Honorable Susie Morgan. MOORE was charged by way of a bill of information with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old man residing in Sherman has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of unlawfully retaining national defense information, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Rodney Gardner, 52, St. Louis, pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with interstate commerce by robbing Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. He appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Unser, 60, Sheldon, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to six years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by four years of supervised release. Unser pleaded guilty to this charge on March 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Miguel Ortiz-Guevara, age 42, a citizen of Honduras, pleaded guilty today to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president of Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) and his brother - a senior employee at the now-defunct company - were sentenced today to federal prison terms for their respective roles in a conspiracy in which millions of dollars in bribes were paid to physicians for blood sample referrals worth more than $100 million to the company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined “The Hugh Hewitt Show" to discuss the JOBS for Success Act --which recently was approved by the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a South Dakota man convicted of Interstate Communications with Threat to Injure was sentenced on June 11, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: “Welcome to the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on Lowering Costs and Expanding Access to Health Care through Consumer-Directed Health Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that David Forrest Noel, 40 of Bowdoin, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender. Noel pleaded guilty on June 22, 2017.
