News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on a Bank Robbery in Miami.
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 DOL Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We are extremely concerned by recent reports that the U.S. Department of Education (“Department") may be scaling back the enforcement of federal laws that are designed to protect against fraud and abuse in taxpayer-funded financial aid programs.[i] It is critically important that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: A Fort Lauderdale resident was sentenced yesterday to over 21 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Napoleon Isaac Mansell, age 35, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Greenville sentenced Mansell on May 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Perth Amboy, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for stealing Social Security benefits that were mistakenly paid to his deceased great aunt, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s final report on the fire at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, which occurred due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kai Brockington pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud and tax fraud for running a bogus charity that duped multiple large corporations into sending him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management will be surveying land southeast of Talkeetna starting in early June and continuing through the summer. The contractors hired to do the survey work, Northwind Site Services, will use helicopters to access higher elevations, UTVs and vehicles for the lower elevations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Former Davidson County General Sessions Judge Cason “Casey" Moreland, 60, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to five counts relating to obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and stealing money from an organization receiving federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement after voting against this year’s National Defense Authorization Act...
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: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Melina Snead, a/k/a “Lady," 24, of Rochester, New York, Jeffrey Johnson, 57, of Gardiner, Maine, and Nicole Truman, a/k/a “Coley," 32, of Augusta, Maine pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Jamal Simon and his Co-Conspirators Stole Other Individuals’ Identities Fraudulently To Obtain More Than $3.5 Million in Cash, Gift Cards, and Merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced STEPHEN GLENN BATTS, 48, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 151 months of imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert E. Miller, III, age 34, of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 23, 2018, by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to 84 months’ imprisonment, 10 years’ supervised...
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 USDA Newswire | May 24, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven has sentenced Xavier D. Stewart (39, Temple Terrace) to eight years and four months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 12, 2018.
