News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Four individuals pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to federal tax charges arising out of an investigation into payments to vendors who performed maintenance on United States Postal Service vehicles in Rhode Island, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Western District of PA will receive 2 AUSA positions to focus on violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Joseph Bassler (62, St. Petersburg) to three years and one month in federal prison for money laundering and mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $77,224, the proceeds of the scheme. Bassler had pleaded guilty on June 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Seven Prosecutors to the District of New Jersey to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on insurance companies’ proposed premium increases for the 2019 plan year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeffrey S. Kahn, 51, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Norbert E. Vint, Acting Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Vladimir Nevidomy, 32, of Hallandale Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 26 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to illegally export military-grade night vision and thermal vision devices, and ammunition primers to Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Two Prosecutors to Montana to Focus on Violent Crime and Civil Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. Attorney John E. Childress issued the following statement upon Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement today that the Department of Justice has allocated additional positions across the country to fight violent crime, including the addition of a prosecutor position in the Central District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - Dr. Michael Frey, M.D. (46, Fort Myers) has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to receive healthcare kickbacks. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for each count. Dr. Frey also faces a term of supervised release of up to three years for each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Following the establishment of the Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Monument in 1961 (later designated as a national park in 1994), the Tohono O’odham Nation and NPS staff worked together to support the traditional practices of harvesting saguaro fruit and cholla buds in alignment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - An Owyhee, Nevada, man was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for second-degree murder of a person on Duck Valley Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Former Defense Intelligence Officer Arrested for Attempted Espionage.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has issued the Finding of No Significant Impact for a Drought Response Program grant to Stockton East Water District.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, today responded to Donald Trump’s false charge this weekend that Democrats were obstructing Assistant Treasury Secretary nominee Isabel Patelunas without cause. In fact, Sen. Wyden is holding the nomination to compel the release of financial documents relating to Russia, which the administration refuses to provide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Matthews, N.C. man was arrested on Friday, June 1, 2018, for attempting to hire a hitman via the internet to murder a Charlotte area resident, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Bryant Riyanto Budi, 26, appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing the identity of a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Eric Nathaniel Sammons, age 25, of Trappe, Maryland today to 35 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
