News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Javier Contreras Vargas, aka “Cuñado," a citizen of Mexico and in the United States illegally, was sentenced Monday, June 11, 2018, before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: A medical assistant was indicted on charges of defrauding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) and stealing patients’ Personal Identifying Information (PII) from a doctor’s office in Pontiac, Michigan, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that STEPHEN T. GIONFRIDDO, 67, of Middletown, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that STEPHEN T. GIONFRIDDO, 67, of Middletown, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with...
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD MOSELEY SR. was sentenced today to 120 months in prison, after having been found guilty in November 2017 of racketeering, fraud, and identity-theft offenses for operating an illegal payday lending...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Vermont are pleased to announce that on June 7, 2018, the Vermont Human Trafficking Task Force (VT HTTF) executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) contractually implementing...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: This morning the Finance Committee meets to discuss five nominations to important positions in the executive branch: Mr. Jeffrey Kessler is nominated to serve as Assistant Commerce Secretary for Enforcement & Compliance, Ms. Amy Karpel and Mr. Randy Stayin are nominated to serve on the U.S. International Trade Commission. And Ms. Elizabeth Ann Copeland and Mr. Patrick Urda are nominated to serve as judges on the U.S. Tax Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal Complaint charging WILLIAM McFARLAND...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jong Sung (“John") Kim has been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted by a jury on two counts of interfering with commerce by extortion. Kim served as a lieutenant for Eugene Chung, the former leader of a gang that specialized in the violent collection of debts from business owners...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: An LM article was published in the June edition of Health Physics, a monthly, peer-reviewed medical journal focused on radiation safety and healthcare applications. The article, titled “Establishing Radiological Screening Levels for Defense-Related Uranium Mine (DRUM) Sites on BLM Land Using a Recreational...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of the Helping to End Addiction and Lessen (HEAL) Substance Use Disorders Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Tampa Florida - A federal jury has found Rashica Shaguana Ford (39, Sarasota) guilty of conspiracy to commit arson. She faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing has not yet been set. Ford was indicted on Nov. 24, 2017, along with two co-conspirators, Jodarin Marquis Whitfield and Herbert Adelphus Pinckney.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama -Former Tuskegee Police Department Lieutenant Alex Huntley, 54, was convicted Friday for beating a handcuffed and compliant arrestee, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., of the Middle District of Alabama, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: (MIAMI) - A French national who was serving at times as an administrator and senior moderator on one of the largest dark web criminal marketplaces pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident who used gas pump skimming devices to steal customers’ personal credit and debit card information was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Fort Polk soldier pleaded guilty Monday to manufacturing and detonating a chemical weapon in the Kisatchie National Forest adjacent to the Fort Polk Army installation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Michael Gutierrez, 34, of Pomona, California, pleaded guilty to five counts of producing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A new postdoctoral scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is the first participant in a pilot program in EM’s Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after a federal judge approved an $85 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner...
