News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments. The indictments were returned today, with the exception of the indictment of Andrew Steiskal, which was returned by the grand jury yesterday.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Director Daniel Smith requesting clarification...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the Administration’s announcement imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum on Canada, Mexico, and the European Union...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Staten Island, New York, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Last month at a cybersecurity conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen previewed the May unveiling of the department’s new cybersecurity strategy and issued a stern warning to cybercriminals. The new DHS Cybersecurity Strategy was released May 15.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of WOOJAE JUNG, a/k/a “Steve Jung," and unsealing of a criminal...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to the administration’s announcement it will levy new tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the European Union...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Derek Carl Toledo, 30, of Shiprock, New Mexico. The indictment charges him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gerald A. Lawson III, 31, of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to acting as a straw purchaser for Quentin L. Smith, a convicted felon who shot and killed two Westerville Police Officers on Feb. 10, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kenyatta Canidate, age 36, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on May 29, 2018, before Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to filing false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Possessed and Intended to Sell Crack Cocaine Near a School.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Oscar Alfredo Burgon-Urrea, 39, an illegal alien from Honduras, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., for the crime of Unlawful Re-entry By a Removed Alien Previously Convicted of a Felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MAMDOUH ABDEL-SAYED, a tenured lecturer at the City University of New York’s Medgar Evers College (“Medgar Evers College"), pled guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud related to his...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Eleven individuals are facing federal drug charges in multiple indictments unsealed on Wednesday targeting a large, multi-state drug trafficking operation in East Central Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles of Homeland Security Investigations, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and John M. Dowdy, Jr., Director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Esthela Clark (49, Jacksonville) to seven years in federal prison for forced labor. She faces deportation to Mexico upon completion of her sentence. The United States previously forfeited Clark’s 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche, which was used to facilitate the offense. Clark pleaded guilty on March 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: PITSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation and ordered to pay $9,570.00 in restitution on her conviction of conspiracy and passing and uttering counterfeit money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: “Today we continue our series of tax reform hearings into how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is providing economic growth. Our focus today is on how tax reform is affecting those Main Street businesses, which create most of the jobs in this country and which invest in our local communities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: Chantale Baptiste, 33, of Coral Springs, Florida, was sentenced today to 33 months for conspiring with her husband and co-defendant, Weguel Legentus, to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with respect to claims, and filing false claims with the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HARRY BRIGHT, also known as “Buddy Bright," 78, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of distribution of obscene matter to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Francisco Santos, also known as “F.S.S.," “A.C.M.," and “Luis Colon," was charged by indictment May 29 with making a false statement in an application for a passport, and with making a false statement to a federal agent, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain.
