News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Alleged MS-13 Member Charged in Violent Racketeering Conspiracy Including Drug Trafficking and Extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shawn Dale Torrez, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Torrez entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends a sentence of 42 to 48 months of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to charges of racketeering conspiracy and drug conspiracy.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is hiring experienced air traffic controllers to work in facilities throughout the country, and also specifically for the facility that handles the busy New York area airspace.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kathleen Marie Hydar, 30; Courtney Anarian Brown, 36; Paris John Earnest Devine, 25; and Raymond Christopher Seay, 39; were indicted today on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Thomas Wayne Capenhurst, 33, of Dixon, and Robert Lee McGraw, 20, of Fairfield, charging both men with conspiracy, malicious use of explosive materials, and using a destructive device during a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. The indictment also charges McGraw with possessing an unregistered destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dustin Lockwood, 23, of Arnold, was indicted today on charges of possessing firearms in a school zone and possession of a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Three Miami, Florida-area home health agency owners were charged in an indictment unsealed on March 13, 2018 for their alleged participation in a health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct home health agency in Miami.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking examining a product standard to reduce the amount of nicotine permitted in cigarettes and make them less addictive.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIMAS ESCOBAR, 41, a citizen of Guatemala last residing in New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported for a sex assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man has been indicted on wire fraud charges that allege a $6 million scheme that bilked investors who were promised large profits from the resale of tickets to high-profile sporting events.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Keith Freeman, 23, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Used Money for Personal Expenses Instead of Training Events and Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID SHALAM pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn to a Superseding Information charging him with the production of child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will impose sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that a federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s February 2018 jobs report...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider two nominees for the Department of Energy (DOE). The nominees were Ted Garrish to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs and James Campos to be Director of the Office of Minority Impact.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on March 14, 2018, Amalia Gamboa (age 41), of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal court to 5 years in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $4.6 million in tax refund checks. The sentence followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nine people have been indicted on federal charges stemming from an ongoing investigation into a ring that allegedly distributed crack cocaine, cocaine, PCP, fentanyl, and firearms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to the White House and State Department releasing new documents obtained by a whistleblower showing political appointees targeting career civil servant employees they believed did not adequately support President Donald Trump’s agenda.
