News from May 2018
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents along with U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducted Atlanta’s first-ever event at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, May 22-23, to bring awareness to the illegal practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and educate persons as to the serious penalties that exist under U.S. law for engaging in its practice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Georgia man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for using fake driver’s licenses in order to obtain checks issued in response to false statements and representations, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Elmwood Park man has been charged with federal drug offenses for allegedly importing a fentanyl analogue from China to the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Derrick Douglas, a/k/a “Dre", has been sentenced for conspiring to sell heroin to minors and young adults who traveled from North Georgia to the English Avenue community to purchase drugs. Douglas also sold fentanyl, a particularly deadly narcotic, to an undercover officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found GEORGE J. CONNELLY, JR., 48, of New Haven, and WILLIAM REIDELL, 41, of Branford, guilty of federal offenses related to their role in a large-scale fencing operation. The trial before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea began on May 10 and the jury returned the guilty verdicts this afternoon.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of a new report issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirming that Trump-GOP sabotage of the health insurance market is driving the skyrocketing cost of health care premiums for American families...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Repeat Drug Trafficker Sentenced for Having Over 435 Grams of “Ice" Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Georgia man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for using fake driver’s licenses in order to obtain checks issued in response to false statements and representations, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 22, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted Patricia Mulford, age 66, and Joseph Mulford, age 67, formerly of Berlin, Maryland; and Maria Denise Gangler a/k/a “Aunt Denise," age 62, of Essex, Maryland, on charges of conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Joseph L. Burton, a former county medical examiner and forensic pathologist, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally distribute opioid painkillers in exchange for sexual favors. Dr. Burton was indicted federally along with seven other individuals in February 2018; five...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Guatemalan citizen pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you. Before I begin, I want to commend Subcommittee Ranking Member, Dr. Davis, who has provided so much leadership on this issue - I know he will speak later about these efforts. This bill represents a missed opportunity for our Committee to help struggling parents get good jobs...
By State Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee hearing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - On May 17, 2018 Islesford Boatworks, a community-based non-profit organization, entered into a new agreement with the National Park Service to lease the historic Blue Duck Ships Store. Islesford Boatworks will host boatbuilding programs in the Blue Duck starting this summer on Little Cranberry Island. The Blue Duck is located across the lawn from the Islesford Historical Museum.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa-- On May 11, 2018, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Michael Collins, age 49, of McClelland, to one year and one day of imprisonment for tax evasion, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Collins was ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the amount of $70,274.14 and pay a fine of $34,770. Collins will serve a three year term of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Ronald McKnight, 34, of Charlotte to 20 years in prison and three years of supervised release on bank robbery charges, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - Campgrounds across the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Northwest Oregon District are ready to welcome visitors this Memorial Day Weekend and throughout the duration of the summer season. This includes popular destinations such as the Fishermen’s Bend, Clay Creek and Whittaker Creek Campgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 65 months in prison for participating in the December 2015 robbery of a North Jersey bar and the violent carjacking and kidnapping that took place shortly afterwards, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Mathieu Forget, age 32, of St-Anicet, Quebec, Canada, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - More than 500 law enforcement personnel executed a major operation this morning, taking into custody 32 defendants who are charged in two federal racketeering indictments, one of which outlines how members of the Mexican Mafia were able to control drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of prisoners inside the Los Angeles County jail system (LACJ).
