News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: JONATHAN WHIPPLE, age 33, a resident of Luling, pled guilty today before United States District Judge Susie Morgan to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 62-count indictment charging Frank Giacobbe, 43, of East Amherst, NY; Patrick Ogiony, 34, of Buffalo, NY; Kevin Morgan, 42, of Pittsford, NY; and Todd Morgan, 29, of Rochester, NY, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and substantive wire fraud and bank fraud charges. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - An East Texas couple and their adult daughter were each sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for their roles in stealing federal funds that were intended to aid victims of Hurricanes Rita, Katrina, Ike and Dolly.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that REBECCA BLOCK, 43, of Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for embezzling approximately $190,000 from her former employer and failing to pay federal income taxes on the embezzled income.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Eddie Garcia, 33, a resident of Kern County, California, to 33 months imprisonment in an identification theft case. The judge ordered that Garcia undergo...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge woman pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A member of the Insane Crips gang in Wichita was indicted today on federal drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Aniceto Aguirre-Cardenas (57) to four years and three months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, for possessing a firearm as an illegal alien, and for illegally reentering the United States following deportation. He pleaded guilty on March 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - A Jasper, Texas couple and their daughter have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office awarded CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) 89 percent of the available fee for fiscal year 2017 (FY17), equating to $9,906,250 of a possible $11,075,000.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We write to request that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hold a hearing to investigate the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to enact an official policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. On Monday, May 7, 2018, Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A local man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to unlawfully import Asian songbirds from Vietnam to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Eagle Butte, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Kemmerer, WY - Fossil Butte National Monument will begin offering its full range of interpretive programming starting on Saturday, May 26, 2018 and continue through the summer. The visitor center will change its hours to 9am-6pm daily. Memorial Day Weekend kicks off the summer season for the monument...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Eight coconspirators pled guilty before trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Timothy Murphy, a/k/a Mr. Black, a/k/a Colby Muhlberg, a/k/a Arthur Whitton, 34, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to 54 months in prison in connection with a multi-count indictment arising from a fraudulent telemarketing enterprise that often targeted elderly victims. Ninety-one Missouri...
By US DOT Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), committee members Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp ...
By EPA Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House floor during consideration of S. 204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017...
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on “Internet of Things Legislation:"
