News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management Colorado River District has been in fire restrictions in order to reduce the risk of wildfire on public lands managed by the BLM Kingman, Lake Havasu and Yuma Field Offices, which includes portions of Mohave, La Paz, Yuma and Yavapai counties. These restrictions remain in effect to limit activities that have the potential to start a fire.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSE GONZALEZ, also known as “Montana," “Beat Montana" and “Carl Montana," 22, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tackya Whyte, age 41, a Jamaican citizen who formerly resided in Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months’ imprisonment and to serve two years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for his role in an international “sweepstakes scam" that defrauded seven American victims out of $459,881.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A local tax return preparer has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return for a client, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation. Crystal T. Kemp pleaded guilty Oct. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Tamaran Edward Bontemps, 20, of Granite Bay, charging him with possessing a firearm as a felon, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $23.85 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to Medicare patients through a purportedly independent charitable foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced today that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced KENNETH CORVON WARD, 39, of Wilson, North Carolina, in a sex trafficking case. WARD was sentenced to 160 months’ imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kevin Budianto, 24, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh to five years imprisonment, following his guilty plea to one count of transportation and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain. In addition, the defendant was sentenced to 10 years’ supervised release and fined $25,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Quincy Dixon, 25, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 100 months in federal prison for robbing the BMO Harris Bank in Fitchburg on December 4, 2017. Dixon pleaded guilty to this charge on March 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Harry Miller, 60, Madison, Wisconsin, was found guilty of sex trafficking and maintaining a place for distributing and using heroin and cocaine. The jury reached its verdict yesterday evening after seven hours of deliberation following a three-day trial in U.S. District Court in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Two employees of an international engineering consulting firm were charged in a superseding indictment filed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to launder bribe payments to foreign government officials for the benefit of a Columbus, Ohio-based subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc, to secure a contract to supply equipment and services to power a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to China.
By State Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the Trump administration announced it was initiating an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to “determine whether imports of automobiles, including SUVs, vans and light trucks, and automotive parts into the United States threaten to impair the national security as defined in Section 232."
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is seeking comments on a proposal to offer 254 oil and gas lease parcels totaling about 286,000 acres at its September quarterly lease sale. Today kicks off a two-week comment period for these parcels, which will close June 7.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Wichita men were charged today with a robbery at a local Wichita liquor store during which one of them was shot, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was indicted in federal court for making threats against police and others, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - William Looney, 55, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to a fentanyl trafficking charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Mexican National men residing in Louisville, Kentucky were convicted of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, after a three-day jury trial that concluded yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Lexington. Imanol Pineda Penaloza, 37, and Efrain Villa Villanueva, 24, were both found guilty of all charges. A third defendant, Sergio Aguilar Piedra, 25, had previously entered a guilty plea to the same drug-trafficking charge.
