News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced former San Antonio lawyer Todd Prins to six years in federal prison for a $2.4 Million fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant Charged with Making a False Statement as it relates to a Claim He Was Kidnapped.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Attorney General Sessions and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee recognized the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local and tribal police officers during National PoliceWeek.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon to seven and a half years in prison in connection with the theft of more than a hundred firearms from a cargo train on the South Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 25 months of incarceration and three years of supervised release on her conviction of conspiring to possess and distribute opiate painkillers, oxycodone and oxymorphone, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Evidence Showed that Unlawful User of Cocaine and Marijuana Fired Nine Shots from a Handgun at an Occupied Building.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $72 million for new projects to advance high-temperature concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. These projects will extend previous research on high-temperature components, develop them into integrated assemblies, and test these components and systems through a wide range of operational conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jayron Khalil Foster, age 21, of Riverdale, Maryland, has pled guilty to production of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following an executive order from President Trump Tuesday that would strengthen cybersecurity, require agencies to eliminate unnecessary IT management functions, and increase use of private sector best practices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Beckley, W.Va., man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme in which he purported to sell paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, on Craigslist.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Committee on Ways & Means Democrats released a progress report that assesses the results of the Republican tax plan six months after it became law. The report’s release comes one day before the Ways & Means Committee holds its first public hearing on the legislation that Republicans hastily forced through the House of Representatives in December of last year.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: * The combined seven-day entrance pass to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks will end May 31.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant Found Guilty by Jury of Aiding Man Who Was Wanted for the Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Wayne Wiles, Jr., of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 11, 2018, Tara Kathleen Valencia, 38, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 51 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Valencia had previously pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, wire fraud, and failure to appear in court (bail jumping). Valencia was also ordered to pay $852,253 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on a Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Attorney General: In light of deeply concerning statements regarding President Donald Trump’s potential interference with the Justice Department’s merger review process, we write to renew our February 8, 2018 request for documents relating to AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner. Last...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Stephanie M. Johnson, 40, New Richmond, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to failing to pay payroll taxes withheld from her employees’ paychecks. Johnson also pleaded guilty to defrauding her corporation and her business partner. Johnson entered these guilty pleas in U.S. District Court in Madison today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: MIAMI - A Port St. Lucie man pled guilty today to unlawfully exporting firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition from South Florida to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Defendant Oscar Rodríguez-Torres pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Camille Vélez-Rivé to six counts including conspiracy, theft of government property, mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to launder money, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
