News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former IRS attorney today admitted possessing a federal agency identification card without authorization and using it during multiple traffic stops, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIANE DALMY, 63, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a securities fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) announced today the start of a series of Full Committee and Tax Policy Subcommittee hearings on how tax reform is growing the U.S. economy, creating jobs here at home,...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: “The partnerships among federal, state and local law enforcement in Colorado are unparalleled and set a gold standard of which we all can be proud," said U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office is truly thankful for everything Colorado Law Enforcement does to make this state such a great place to live." National Police Week runs from May 13 through May 19. For information about National Police Week events, please visit www.policeweek.org.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: In my 40-year career as a state and federal prosecutor, I have had the pleasure of working side by side with hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement officers in the cause of justice. As a group, they are the finest people anyone could hope to know and work with. I have the greatest respect and admiration for these men and women, whose mission encompasses the most dangerous work undertaken in our communities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that GARY HIRST pled guilty today to defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Brian Sanborn, 53, of Franklin, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Vance Cayford, 47, of Norridgewock, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of ammunition and attempted possession of a firearm by a felon. The defendant pled guilty on Nov. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Two treatment center owners were sentenced to prison for their participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, May 11, 2018, a former employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and her husband were sentenced to prison for defrauding the federal government, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Raquel De Jesus Mendez-Vasquez, age 28, and a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (57 days in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today issued a statement after Oregon announced insurance companies’ proposed premium rates for plan year 2019. These rate proposals will be reviewed by the state and finalized later in the year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Charles Town, West Virginia man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on bank robbery charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Dkyle Jamal Bridges, 32, and Kristian Jones, 24, both of Claymont, Delaware, have been charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking of minors in an indictment unsealed May 11, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Calvert and Ranking Member McCollum, for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Brandon Leroid Cummings, age 28, and Brandon Christopher Craft, age 31, both of Sumter, were both sentenced today in federal court in Columbia by Chief United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten after pleading guilty earlier this year to various firearm and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Exploiting 12-Year-Old Girl Over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Bluefield, Virginia man, who was reported missing by his wife in April, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Abingdon with making false statements regarding claims he was kidnapped, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today.
