News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Business Owner Who Participated in Business E-Mail Compromise Fraud Scheme Sentenced to 10 Years in State Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Timothy Thomas, 40, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve a total of 174 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $17,534.00 in restitution, following his guilty plea in October 2017 to five counts of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant had two prior federal firearm convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Nigerian man who was residing in Houston has been ordered to prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Azeez Abiodun Balogun pleaded guilty Oct. 27, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today celebrated an increase in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) budget in the omnibus spending bill to address the substantial Social Security disability appeals backlog. For months, Wyden has been calling on congressional appropriators to provide adequate resources to address this growing crisis, along with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management today announced 11 demonstration projects in six states for its outcome-based grazing authorizations initiative, which is designed to provide BLM managers and grazing permit holders greater flexibility in the management of permitted livestock. This initiative emphasizes the Trump Administration’s goal of promoting shared conservation stewardship of public lands while supporting uses such as livestock grazing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Agawam man was charged in an indictment unsealed today with a federal cocaine offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Anthony Johnson (53, Jacksonville) to 41 years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, false representation of a Social Security number, mail fraud, and for violating his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that Chief United States District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced BARBARO PAEZ-PEREZ, age 48, to fourteen (14) months in federal prison and two years of supervised release following his conviction for possession of fraudulent immigration documents in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1546(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER MAZUR, age 32, and REBECCA COMSTOCK, age 36, were charged on March 22, 2018, in a two-count indictment with violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was arraigned yesterday in federal court in Boston on charges related to identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: CHALLIS, Idaho - A public land user in central Idaho recently collected a financial reward for reporting the illegal use of an off-road vehicle in the Spring Gulch area, where a BLM-managed closure is in place to protect wintering wildlife. During the investigation, the defendant admitted going around a closed gate with his all-terrain vehicle in a season closure area to retrieve two elk.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 23, 2018, William J. Stepney, 29, a former resident of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced to 60 months incarceration to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has again cited Jose A. Serrato, an independent roofing contractor based in Marietta, Georgia, for exposing employees to fall hazards at a worksite in Birmingham. The employer, who has been cited seven times in the past five years, faces $133,604 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Ross Roggio, age 49, of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and Roggio Consulting Company, LLC, a firm with which Ross Roggio was associated, for alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Ho Shin Lee, 31, of Los Angeles, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Charlotte for laundering more than $1.9 million stolen from Appalachian State University, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The 14-count indictment was unsealed today, following Lee’s arrest in California.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will host public scoping meetings next month for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s (CLT) proposed fourth parallel runway and other projects. The meetings will help residents learn about the Airport’s proposed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Charged With Illegally Exporting Firearm Parts to Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DANIEL JUSTIN MAHAN, age 42, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
