News from June 2018
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, spoke last evening with the Honorable Robert Nault, Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in the Canadian House of Commons. Representative Engel expressed his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced MICHAEL CARL BUTLER, 31, of Oak Island, North Carolina, to 420 months of imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former executive of a Springfield, Missouri charity, who was also an Arkansas lobbyist, pleaded guilty in federal court today to bribing Arkansas elected officials in a multi-million-dollar scheme, and then along with other charity executives, embezzling millions of dollars from the Springfield health care organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that Donovan Lawrence Duchaine, age 26, from New Town, ND, was charged by an Indictment returned on June 6, 2018, for Murder and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging a Philadelphia man with bribing a Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office employee in exchange for inside information about Sheriff’s sales, announced U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester woman was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for her role in a heroin and cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Mazzariello, Jr., 63, and his son, Adam Mazzariello, 38, both of Alden, NY, who were convicted of conspiring to pay bribes to City of Buffalo police officers, were sentenced to serve 12 months and six months in federal prison respectively by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. James Mazzariello, Jr. was also convicted of making and subscribing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney ScottW. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr, Waterloo Police Chief Daniel Trelka, and other community partners today announced a new initiative to enhance efforts to combat violent crime in Waterloo. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made turning the tide of rising violent crime in America a top priority.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Jokari T. Jones, age 36, of Columbia, plead guilty today in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and misprison of a felony, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 4...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the three-bill package that Republicans are bringing to the Floor today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: (HATTIESBURG, Miss.) - Juan Pablo Zamora Gomez, 32, of Modesto, California, pled guilty yesterday before a U.S. District U.S. District Judge to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Jamaican national has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal wire and mail fraud laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Robert Christiansen, age 57, of San Antonio, Texas, plead guilty after one day of trial in federal court in Columbia, to using an interstate facility to induce a minor to engage in sexual activity and transporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - One resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of armed bank robbery and Hobbs Act Robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Evelyn Juarez, 20, of Humble, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 57 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) issued the below joint statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) responded to a letter they sent on April 17, 2018, along with Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Joaquin Castro (D-TX), alleging that the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote a letter to White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly requesting documents relating to reports that a White House contractor with an outstanding arrest warrant for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Raeef Ohan Ohan, 59, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property related to a series of cargo thefts, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging a Philadelphia man with bribing a Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office employee in exchange for inside information about Sheriff’s sales, announced U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain.
