News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and an attorney from Colombia were extradited yesterday to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges related to the promotion of foreign bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Roger Edward Picard, 66, of Garland, Maine pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to failing to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service issues a prospectus solicitating proposals for the award of a concession contract to provide lodging, food and beverage, and related services within Buffalo National River.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Tyvon Bannister, also known as “Turtle," a member of the Crips-affiliated Cypress Gangsta Crips (CGC) street gang, pleaded guilty to a firearms-related murder charge in connection with his July 2014 fatal shooting of Rayvon Henriques. The guilty plea was entered before United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked Trump Administration officials to clarify the trade aspects of the president’s recently announced plan to address the high price of prescription drugs. Since the plan’s release last week, details about how trade would be used to help Americans consumers have not been released, despite the president’s remarks that he would “demand fairness overseas.".
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On May 14, 2018, United States District Court Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Fredrico Bustos-Andrade, age 40, of Moreno Valley, California to 82 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul Creager, 39, of St Louis County, Missouri was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for defrauding two investors in his failed construction business during 2016. Creager pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud on Dec. 21, 2017 and appeared before Chief Judge Rodney W. Sippel in St. Louis today for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul Creager, 39, of St Louis County, Missouri was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for defrauding two investors in his failed construction business during 2016. Creager pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud on Dec. 21, 2017 and appeared before Chief Judge Rodney W. Sippel in St. Louis today for sentencing.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK, ND - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and several safety stakeholder organizations recently signed an alliance with North Dakota employers and employees to reduce exposure to trenching and excavation-related hazards.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 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.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Johnnie Gresham, age 39, of Charleston, West Virginia, pleaded guilty on May 17, 2018, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to producing and attempting to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert L. Williams, Jr., 36, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with illegal transportation of a firearm purchased outside of New York, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Luis Moreno-Valencia (45, Colombia, South America) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine intending that it be unlawfully imported into the United States. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 15, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced the launch of the Wild Horse and Burro “Online Corral"-a new website focused on connecting the American public with wild horses and burros available for adoption or purchase.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Arthur Jordan, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to interstate communication of threat to injure before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months of incarceration, followed by five years of supervised release, and payment of $246,170.03 in restitution, on his convictions for conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Following a four-month trial, a federal jury in Buffalo, New York, has convicted three leaders and members of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC), including the National President, of multiple charges for their roles in a major racketeering operation that involved violence and murder.
