News from March 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The official Committee Republican Twitter account shared an article today from a right-wing pseudoscience site - Natural News - that falsely claims that Massachusetts was forced to purchase natural gas from Russia earlier this winter because the state was “so short of energy" after...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joclyn Telles, 35, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), urging him to investigate attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators, and to call in Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, the Trump Campaign data firm that acquired the personal information of millions of U.S. Facebook users.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Online Vehicle Sale Frauds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gustavo Flores, 26, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Work continues to modernize the primary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. A milestone was reached when a large crane removed the old elevator motors and installed new motors. Each motor weighs 7,300 pounds with a lift capacity of 4,000 pounds. The next step will be to install new guide rails in the hoistway.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Upon receiving a request for assistance regarding an Amber Alert, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Mexico City exploited investigative leads received from HSI Philadelphia and the Allentown (PA) Police Department and worked closely with its U.S. Embassy partners and Mexican counterparts to determine the whereabouts of a female minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - Cory Hutcheson, 34, of East Prairie, MO, appeared today in United States District Court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, following his indictment on eleven felony counts of Identity Theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7). The indictment charges Hutcheson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey auto dealer today admitted laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars generated by a scheme to defraud Russian citizen of monies, paid in advance, for the purchase of luxury automobiles shipped from the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) delivered the following opening statement at a Finance Committee hearing considering the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominations of John Bartrum to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and Lynn Johnson to be an Assistant Secretary for Family Support...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Alfredo Cervantes Charged with 25 Counts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stacey Plaskett from the U.S. Virgin Islands sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy providing new documents indicating that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., men have pleaded guilty in federal court to a series of armed robberies following their arrests after a head-on collision with a police vehicle in a Quik Trip parking lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing an Investors Bank branch in Navesink, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Repeat Offender Met Minors Online and Enticed Them to Send Him Explicit Images.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Jose Hernandez a/k/a “Plumhead," a/k/a “David Hernandez," a/k/a “Fathead," age 27, of Adelphi, Maryland today to 71 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for distribution of 28 grams or more of crack and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Martin, 58, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,113,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Houston man and woman have been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Arturo Rafael Salazar Cruz, age 38, of Matamoros, Mexico, was sentenced in United States District Court in Charleston for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 & 2320. United States District Judge P. Michael Duffy, of Charleston, sentenced Cruz to the maximum of 60 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - While you’re beginning to daydream about warmer, longer days, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation are preparing to help you #FindYourPark during National Park Week, April 21 through April 29. Carrying the theme “Park Stars" - which celebrates everything from starry...
