News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Ramos Escalera, 30, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to the founders of Black Cube after troubling reports that the firm was engaged in a “dirty ops" campaign against key officials from the Obama Administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Yesterday, in proceedings at the U.S. District Court in Pikeville, Chief Judge Karen K. Caldwell sentenced the following defendants for drug trafficking and firearms convictions, in three separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS GOMEZ-VALDIVIA, 39, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for drug trafficking and immigration offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Joseph Daniel Mills, 40, of Walker, was sentenced yesterday to 9 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force and the FBI.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, June 9, 2018, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Pitter Patter," an adventure of Pitter and Patter, two raindrops making their way...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A New York man who helped obstruct a federal drug conspiracy case in 2017 pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kevin Fritz Lamerique, 34, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting an attempt to obstruct and impede an official proceeding. United States Attorney Stuart commended the work of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Bowling Green, man pleaded guilty to multiple drug and firearm offenses yesterday in United States District Court, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States this week filed an asset forfeiture complaint against an ancient mosaic depicting Hercules, believed to have been made in the 3rd or 4th Century, that likely was looted from war-torn Syria, allegedly illegally imported into the United States, and seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at a Palmdale residence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: FBI Response to the Portland Incident Today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a Chicago man on carjacking and firearm charges for allegedly stealing multiple vehicles at gunpoint last month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayette County woman was sentenced yesterday to federal prison on drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tiffany D. Ramsey, 27, of Boomer, Fayette County, previously entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, a quantity of heroin, and a quantity of oxycodone. Ramsey was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Charles Michael Stratton, 61, of Fairborn, Ohio, with multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering in an indictment returned here yesterday and filed today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: John Servider, an attorney admitted to practice law in the State of New York since 1988, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of two counts of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to alter, and alteration of, records for use in a grand jury investigation in the Eastern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three months in a halfway house, one year of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine, on his conviction of simple assault on an aircraft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: “We see few cases in which a defendant has victimized so many that the number of those impacted is too high to count. This is one such case.
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee sent letters to three technology and venture capital trade associations requesting industry data on harassment, as well as an update on measures being taken to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Delaware attorney who spent nearly a decade helping clients collect hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payday loans was sentenced Friday to eight years in federal prison, fined $50,000 and ordered to forfeit more than $356,000 in criminal proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brennen Bryant, Jr., 25, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: On May 24, 2018, Garrick E.R. Recker, a/k/a "Curtis Lowe," 28, of Lenzburg, Illinois, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Recker previously pled guilty...
