News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A brother and sister from Plainfield, New Jersey, were indicted today on drug distribution, felony possession of a firearm, obstruction of justice, and other charges resulting from a violent encounter with law enforcement officers in October 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Vidya Banka, M.D., a cardiologist and former director of Pennsylvania Hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab, has entered into a settlement agreement with the United States to resolve allegations that he improperly submitted Medicare claims for unnecessary cardiac stent procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Brady, age 68, of Philmont, New York, was arrested and charged earlier this month with distribution and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Ralph Lamont Blevins, 39, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was sentenced to 188 months (15 years, 8 months) in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a 4-year term of supervised release that will commence once Blevins is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Ronald Giallanzo, also known as “Ronnie G," an acting captain in the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Bonanno family"), and Michael Palmaccio, also known as “Mike," a soldier in the Bonanno family, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: A Westlake woman was charged today with theft of government funds, said Justin E. Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that COLLYER GOODMAN, a/k/a “West," was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in supplying at least 14 other drug dealers with cocaine and crack cocaine in Middletown, New York. GOODMAN was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Coeburn physician, who prescribed Ritalin and hydrocodone to an undercover investigator, will serve two years’ probation, pay a $25,000 fine, surrender his medical license and pay $945,000 in restitution and forfeiture, announced United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Timothy Munro Roberts (57, Missouri) to six years and eight months in federal prison for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $5,874,912.52 in restitution to the victims of the fraud. Roberts pleaded guilty on January 9, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA), and Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the follow statement on the terrorist bombings in Austin, Texas...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Patchogue, NY - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the schedule for Fire Island National Seashore's 11th Biennial Science Conference. The two-day event is free and open to the public and will be held April 27 and 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on March 16, 2018, LUIS RIVERA, JR., also known as “Pop" and “Gordo," 43, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Oniel McKenzie, age 37, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison following an October 2017 jury conviction for possession with intent to distribute large quantities of cocaine and marijuana found in Rensselaer County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - March 19, 2018 - Khari Milak Whitehead, 26, of Antioch, Tennessee, was charged on Friday in a criminal complaint with making a false statement in connection with the attempted purchase of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today made the following statement regarding the Russian presidential election...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Pipestone National Monument News Release. For Release: Immediate Release 3/19/18. Contact: Cody Goraczkowski Phone: 507-825-5464 Ext. 213 Email: e-mail us. Free Every Kid in a Park Passes Available to Fourth Graders and Their Families. Pipestone, MN: Pipestone National Monument is proud to support the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Seven individuals have pled guilty to participating in a multi-million dollar international money laundering conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Susan “Sue" Fritzke, deputy superintendent of four National Park Service (NPS) sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been named superintendent of Capitol Reef NP in Utah by NPS Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office and the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol announce that Carmen Melari Ferrufino Perdomo, 28, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in North Carolina, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that she transported six illegal aliens within the United States. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss released the defendant on conditions pending her next court hearing in early April.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is hosting a series of listening sessions to help address the shortage of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in rural communities.
