News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Federal authorities announced today a significant coordinated effort to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes that are designed to intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, including many senior citizens. Operation Wire Wire, a coordinated law enforcement effort by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Arrest is part of a coordinated International Enforcement Operation targeting hundreds of individuals in BEC schemes.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: On Wednesday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold a hearing on "The Power of Charter Schools: Promoting Opportunity for America’s Students." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order going into effect today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond Hopson, 35, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday regarding its Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) and ongoing efforts to stop the importation of illegal opioids and other potentially harmful products coming through international mail facilities (IMFs).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today that three individuals have been charged for their role in illegally purchasing/possessing firearms that were eventually used to kill two area police officers. The charges are a result of a violence reduction program initiated by the Department of Justice called Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On March 28, 2018, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging seven defendants with sex trafficking announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Six defendants were arrested and appeared in federal court in Des Moines. The remaining defendant was arrested on June 8, 2018, in Texas. Trial is scheduled for Oct. 15, 2018, before United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - On Monday, June 11, 2018, a physician, Dr. Willie J. Chester, 65, of Pike Road, Alabama, pleaded guilty in the ongoing “pill mill prosecution" arising out of a now-closed Montgomery medical office, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. That medical practice was known as “Family Practice" and was located at 4143 Atlanta Highway in Montgomery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIE GARVIN, also known as “Tank" and “Black," 27, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 132 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a violent New Haven street gang.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendants AMELIA M. TEDTAOTAO, age 31, and ANN MARIE C. PANGILINAN, age 41, were sentenced in District Court today by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco- Gatewood. The Court ordered terms of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Wilmington, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware announced today that Jeffrey Minner, age 55, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Sleet. In addition, Minner was ordered to pay $1,223,660 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that David Jack, 44, of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Jack pleaded guilty on Jan. 26, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Cavico, Jr., 50, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession of firearm with obliterated serial number. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Boston, June 11, 2018-"From Measuring Rods and Calipers to Big Data: The Study of Human Body Composition Grows Up" was the title of Stephen B. Heymsfield's 2018 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) W. O. Atwater Memorial Lecture, delivered at the American Society for Nutrition 's annual meeting on Sunday, June 10, in Boston.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS: To celebrate the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Natchez Trace Parkway will host the Southeastern Raptor Center’s presentation of “Live Native Raptors" at 1:00 and 2:00 pm on Saturday, June 16 at the Visitor Center in Tupelo. Wildlife rehabilitators will showcase birds of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The owner of Redirections Treatment Advocates, LLC, an opioid addiction treatment practice with offices in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, has been indicted on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady of the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that John P. Cutler, 35, of Delevan, NY, who was convicted receipt of child pornography following a prior conviction, was sentenced to serve 262 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously convicted of possessing child pornography.
