News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SCRONIC, a former hedge fund manager, pleaded guilty today to securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel. SCRONIC admitted as part of his plea that he had defrauded the 45 investors in his Scronic Macro Fund of more than $22 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -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.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Jerome Pittman, age 23, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 14 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit carjacking, carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeremy Solima, 41, of Stockton, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to eight years and four months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Ernest Roberts, a/k/a “Balla Walla," age 41, of Allendale, South Carolina, was sentenced for possession with intent to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841. United States District Judge Mary G. Lewis, of Columbia, sentenced Roberts to 180 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Five people were added to a now 39-count indictment for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute at least 220 pounds of marijuana and 345 pills of Oxycodone in Northeast Ohio, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant executed the fraud by writing checks to a fictitious vendor.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that the Treasury Department has sanctioned Russian actors for interfering in the 2016 elections and for targeting our critical infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Christopher O’Berry, age 43, of Columbia, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for Theft of Government Money, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 641. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., of Columbia, also ordered O’Berry to pay $1,039,981.75 in restitution to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Fred Aundraus Gaston III, 44, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a crime related to using a fake identity since 1999.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding a bicameral solution being reached regarding Section 199A of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon, the House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted Her Excellency Kang Kyung-wha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, to discuss the importance of the U.S.-South Korea partnership in the midst of urgent North Korean nuclear and missile threats.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to participate in development of the Dinosaur Travel Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (TMP/EA). The BLM will host two open house meetings to provide the public opportunities to ask questions and provide input on the travel management plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Laguna Beach man has pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted that he stole $6.8 million from victims of three investment fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Deanna Tallo, age 29, of Throop, Pennsylvania, and Thomas Coss, age 36, currently an inmate in state prison, were indicted on March 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury for smuggling suboxone and tobacco into the Lackawanna County Prison during July 2015 and April 2016. The case was unsealed today following the arrest of Tallo.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today released the following joint statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a Notice of Schedule for the environmental review process for the Alaska LNG (AK LNG) project.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Philip D. Dean, M.D., 62, of Warrenton, Missouri, was indicted today with eight felony charges for making false statements to Medicare and Medicaid and illegally distributing fentanyl, hydrocodone, and other controlled prescription drugs without a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Mark A. Stallings, 58, of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, was arrested for the March 5, 2018, robbery of the Suntrust Bank on Andrew Johnson Highway in Knoxville. Stallings appeared before the Honorable Dennis H. Inman, U.S. Magistrate Judge on March 14, 2018. He will remain in custody pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for March 21, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, during a business meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans blocked all consideration of Democratic requests to allow Members to offer, debate, and vote on 13 motions to subpoena critical documents and testimony within the Committee’s core oversight jurisdiction. Under Chairman Gowdy’s tenure, the Committee has not issued a single subpoena since Donald Trump became President.
