News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Late yesterday afternoon, a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, found Raymorris Asencio, 31 of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, guilty of human trafficking and transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney William C. Lamar...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal indictment charging MICHAEL PATRICK COUPE, 27, and JAMIE FLEMING, 30, in a firearms purchasing conspiracy. COUPE is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, FLEMING is charged with one count of conspiracy. Both defendants made an initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against David Lopez, 33, of Susanville, charging him with unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Four individuals have been indicted for introducing or possessing drugs in the Tennessee Department of Correction. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced a South Carolina man late yesterday to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, in connection with a “synthetic identity" bank fraud scheme, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about her disappointment in Republican’s latest actions to scuttle bipartisan negotiations on health care stabilization by introducing a new, partisan bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: On March 22, 2018, Marcus J. Thornton, 37, of Edwardsville, Illinois, pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to two counts of bank robbery, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Thornton faces a prison term of up to 40 years, a fine of up to $500,000, a minimum of five years of supervised release after his prison term, and an amount of restitution that is yet to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Artur Sargsyan has been sentenced for the crime of criminal copyright infringement for private financial gain while operating a massive file-sharing infrastructure that distributed approximately 1 billion copies of copyrighted musical works through Internet downloads. Sargsyan’s file-sharing websites, which contained numerous pop-up advertisements, generated significant profit for him when visitors accessed the websites to illegally download copyrighted works.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: For Presenting a False Claim to the Government and Theft Of Government Money.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Today, Kevin K. McAleenan was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON—Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen met with European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove. Secretary Nielsen and Mr. de Kerchove had a productive conversation about the current terror threat environment and how to expand our joint efforts in the global fight against terrorism.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., March 22, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding the omnibus spending bill released by Congressional leaders: “The omnibus spending plan released last night contains a number of our priorities at USDA. Fixing the so-called ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Following a three-day trial, a jury found Mark Porter, 59, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, guilty yesterday of committing a federal hate crime when he used a stun device during the racially-motivated assault of a neighbor at his apartment complex in Draper, Utah. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with Union Parish Detention Center (UPDC), a correctional facility located in Farmerville, Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: An Indianapolis man reported false information on federal income tax returns he prepared for his customers, according to a new lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice today. In the lawsuit’s complaint, the government alleges that Antonio Chappell prepared false tax returns at G & A Tax Service ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: A Gangster Disciples gang member was sentenced today to 360 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U. S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Three members of the Nine Trey Gangsters were convicted today by a federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy that included five murders, six attempted murders, and various drug trafficking, robbery, and firearms crimes that spanned all five cities in south Hampton Roads, Virginia in 2015.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that it is seeking to permanently bar Raysol Villalobos (a/k/a Ray Galvan), a former employee of Frost Bank, San Antonio, Texas, from employment in the banking industry and to impose a $9,819 fine on him and require him to pay $35,000 in restitution to Frost Bank.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board has approved actions on Thursday by the Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Minneapolis, increasing the discount rate (the primary credit rate) at the Banks from 2 percent to 2-1/4 percent, effective immediately.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of carton-closing staples from the People’s Republic of China (China).
