News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York man pleaded guilty today to committing government contracting fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelvin Johnson, of Baltimore, Maryland and Sykebia Stewart, of Dundalk, Maryland were found guilty today by a federal jury on heroin distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office and the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol announce that, during late evening hours of June 22, 2018, Border Patrol agents arrested five adult Mexican citizens that had illegally entered the United States. Agents also arrested another man, also a citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Kelley Hansen, 28, of California, was sentenced today before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez, to 2 ½ months incarceration for possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. He was credited by the court for time he...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIRIAM DUBAY, 65, of Purcellville, Virginia, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud related to her embezzlement of over $326,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of RYAN RANDALL GILBERTSON, 42, founder of Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc., and DOUGLAS VAUGHN HOSKINS, 50, for orchestrating a complex stock manipulation scheme that triggered more than $30 million dollars in fraudulent bonus payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Tharon Jamell Taylor, 27, of Pascagoula, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sul Ozerden, to serve 295 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Taylor was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised committee passage of their bipartisan legislation to promote economic growth in developing economies through U.S. business investment and provide more accountability ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Eric D. Price, age 58, of Fayetteville, North Carolina pleaded guilty today to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit wire fraud, related to payments to him for a "no show" job on a sub-contract under contracts awarded by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), in Harford County, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Phillip Thompson of Augusta, Ga. was sentenced for conspiracy involving theft of government funds, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 371. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs, of Columbia, sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: PAGE, Arizona - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will be conducting heightened enforcement targeting boating under the influence as part of the national Operation Dry Water campaign, June 29 through July 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - A Verbena, Alabama man, James Calvin Talley, Jr., 37, was sentenced to life in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, using a phone to facilitate a drug crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Traffic Congestion Relief Pilot Study Planned to Improve Traffic Management at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Passaic, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for robbing six banks in Hudson, Union, and Passaic counties in June and July of 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Shawnee man was sentenced today to 85 months in federal prison for robbing an Overland Park bank at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Dante Starks, a close associate of former City of Opa Locka Commissioner Luis Santiago, pled guilty yesterday, before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez, to charges arising from his participation in the long-running Opa Locka municipal corruption conspiracy and his failure to file federal income tax returns.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a report outlining the causes and consequences of high drug prices in Medicare. The report shows how the broken drug system delivers massive profits to drug manufacturers, middlemen and insurance companies while...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced San Antonio attorney and former District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti to 12 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss, San Antonio Field Office.
