News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: New Jersey Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two Las Vegas men involved in a $14 million telemarketing fraud scheme targeting small business owners pleaded guilty in federal court today, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division, and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan for the IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that a federal Grand Jury sitting in Portland handed down an indictment charging Abdirashid Ahmed, 38, of Lewiston and Garat Osman, 32, of Auburn, with health care fraud involving the MaineCare program and soliciting and receiving health care kickbacks from May 2015 through December 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Fifty-seven individuals, who are connected to various white supremacist gangs have been charged in a case led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division and coordinated by the Texas Anti-Gang Center with participating partners such as the Dallas Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of PRB Logics Corporation, an Orange County-based seller of electronic components, was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging he sold counterfeit integrated circuits, some of which could have been used in military applications.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: HELENA - Travis Holly Stephens, a 30-year-old Butte resident, was sentenced today to 168 months in prison followed by 5 years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on Oct. 17, 2017. U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell handed down the sentence.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - More than 40 staff members were recognized for their scientific and technical excellence at the 2018 Savannah River National Laboratory Research and Technology Recognition Reception. Held annually, this event honors recipients of patents, copyrights, commercial licenses, cooperative research...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, May 19, at 10 am, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will provide a special program for Kids to Parks Day. Children third grade and above are invited to join a ranger for an activity-guided 1.5 mile hike. Families will meet at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and caravan to the trailhead. At 12 pm, following the hike, all children are invited to join the ranger for a bring-your-own picnic lunch.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Yesica Paola Rojas-Baten, 19, an illegal alien from Guatemala, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to unlawful re-entry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Thomas Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Joseph A. Banco Jr., Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs sentenced Dr. Mackie James Walker, Jr., a former podiatrist of Aiken, South Carolina, to 188 months of incarceration for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana has returned a 12-count indictment charging Carlos Alberto Zelaya Rojas with money laundering violations, impairing the court’s jurisdiction over property subject to forfeiture, impeding an official proceeding, and perjury. Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Mexican nationals were indicted by a federal grand jury today on reentry of a removed alien charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Michael Kail was arraigned in federal court today on an indictment that charges him with a scheme to defraud his former employer, Netflix, Inc., announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jason Kenneth Bell, aged 41, from Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on May 1, 2018 to two counts of Anonymous Telecommunications Harassment. Mr. Bell entered his plea in Macon before U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - As part of an ongoing investigation, three more individuals pled guilty on April 30, 2018, to various charges involving funds embezzled from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Calvin A. Shivers, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Joseph Kuzmin, 42, of Voznesenka, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve six years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. A jury previously found Kuzmin guilty of the charge in November 2017, after a three-day trial.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers have finished demolition of the East Tennessee Technology Park’s (ETTP) Central Neutralization Facility, which once treated the site’s industrial wastewater.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces the following guilty plea which took place before the Senior U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany, Georgia on April 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An Ohio resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
