News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Pittsfield man was charged in federal court in Springfield yesterday with distributing marijuana, illegally possessing 10 guns and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announces that Jessie Lee Hall, Jr., age 38, of Dublin, Georgia entered his guilty plea on May 9, 2018 to one (1) count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, five (5) counts of transportation for illegal sexual activity, and one (1) count of inducement to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity in front of United States District Judge Marc T. Treadwell.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly Speaker, took an oath to act in the best interests of the people of New York State. As a unanimous jury found, he sold his public office for private greed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Defendant Engaged in Bitcoin Exchanges with Undercover Agents despite Knowledge the Money was Drug Trafficking Proceeds.
By EPA Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the second video from its “Personal Stories from the Opioid Crisis" video series.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - E. Stanley Hoff, 69, of Westerville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 40 months in prison for threatening to assault and murder a United States official.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim, Who Had Been a Friend, in the Chest.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2018
Release: CHICAGO (May 10, 2018) – After three days of the Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind Competition held at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual WINDPOWER Conference, The California State University Maritime Academy beat out 11 other teams to claim top honors at the 3rd biennial Collegiate Wind Competition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Sandra Santay Sentenced to 27 Months In Prison and Ordered to Pay $491,169.71 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: A mail carrier from Broadview Heights was sentenced to three months of incarceration for stealing packages containing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: $14 Million Investment Fraud Scheme. DENVER - Karen Lynn McClaflin, age 59, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and owner of “Homesource Partners Inc." was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 96 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A former business manager and financial secretary for the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association Local 40 in Rhode Island was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for embezzling $319,795 in union and union benefit funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor pleaded guilty today to unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, and making material false statements to federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Hyattsville, Maryland men were each sentenced today to 26 years in prison for sex trafficking three minors throughout the East Coast from September through November 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Antonio Miller, age 39, of Columbia, South Carolina, plead guilty to three counts today in connection with the torture, robbery, and murder of Fred Tucker in Aiken: (1) Using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a crime of violence and drug trafficking; (2) Kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On May 10, 2018, Shawn A. Callwood, 36, of St. Thomas, Glenys Gruz-Calcano, 28, Anyi Paola Calcano, 19, Luis Alberto Pimentel Gautier, 42, and Rafael Morales-Osoria, 35, all of Dominican Republic, made their initial appearances before U.S. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez, after...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation recently awarded a contract for cultural resource work. The contract, valued up to $50 million, was awarded to Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. of Montrose, Colo., Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, Inc. of Cortez, Colo., and Statistical Research, Inc. of Tucson, Ariz. This contract will allow the Western Colorado Area Office and Upper Colorado Region to obtain cultural resource-related services for various projects.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Rocky Hutson, age 59, of Grand Junction, Colorado, and a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen, was sentenced to serve 70 months (nearly 6 years) in federal prison for false claims, creating fictious financial instruments and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Special Agent...
By EPA Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), announced today a hearing for Friday, May 18, 2018 at 9:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Quantum Computing."
