News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has signed a finding of no significant impact for continued delivery, transfer and exchange of San Joaquin River Restoration Program Restoration Flows for Friant Division long-term contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury found a Biloxi, Mississippi physician guilty Friday for his role in an approximately $3 million compounding pharmacy fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MUHAMMAD ISMAIL, 67, of Meriden, and KAMRAN KHAN, 38, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to money laundering in connection with funds they received for the unlawful export of goods to Pakistan. A third defendant, Imran Khan, 43, of North Haven, previously pleaded guilty to violating U.S. export laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Denver Police Department and the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old Houston woman has been ordered to prison for submitting falsified fund requests to an investment adviser for the Basilian Father’s Missions of the Catholic Church (BFM), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. Rosina K. Blanco pleaded guilty Oct. 24, 2017, to one count of wire fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is hitting the road over the next couple of weeks! We are heading to two events to better reach key audiences who can help us tackle homeland security challenges. If you’re attending the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) or South by Southwest (SXSW), I hope you’ll stop by our booth and discuss ways we can work together.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly conspiring to defraud the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) and giving kickbacks to its former executive director, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has signed a finding of no significant impact for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program’s plan to recapture a portion of the 2018 San Joaquin River Restoration Flows at Patterson and/or Banta-Carbona irrigation districts though Feb. 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MUHAMMAD ISMAIL, 67, of Meriden, and KAMRAN KHAN, 38, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to money laundering in connection with funds they received for the unlawful export of goods to Pakistan. A third defendant, Imran Khan, 43, of North Haven, previously pleaded guilty to violating U.S. export laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sterling Jones, 24, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the three Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care introduced a comprehensive bill that would improve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces by making health care more affordable and by reversing the harmful Trump Administration actions that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old man residing in Sherman area has entered a plea of guilty to one count of unlawfully retaining national defense information, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill serves as the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). McCaskill issued the following statement today to mark Missouri’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, which runs from March 4 to March 10 and is coordinated by FEMA and other national, state, and local agencies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Paul Martinez to 12 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Matthew J. Higgins-Vogt, 25, of Decatur, Ill., was sentenced today to 60 years in prison for his role in an armed robbery of a Decatur Circle K convenience store and the murder of a 19-year-old Decatur woman, in April 2015. A jury convicted Higgins-Vogt’s co-conspirator Kelton Snyder in April 2016. On Oct. 24, 2016, Snyder was sentenced to life in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, 11 Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner David Kautter requesting an explanation for the agency’s decision to create restrictions on the prepayment of 2017 property taxes that are not included in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Former Defense Contractor Convicted of Unlawfully Retaining Classified Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Louis L. Martin, of Lexington, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Ricky Hampton, the rapper who goes by the stage name “Finese2Tymes" and has been performing at concerts when violence has broken out multiple times, pleaded guilty in federal court today to a gun possession charge stemming from an incident following a concert in Forrest City.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) checkpoint.
