News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Texas Return Preparers Indicted in False Tax Return Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed, the Manage Our Wolves Act. Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Nov. 15, 2018, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that an Oxford, Pennsylvania man, was charged with two counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, following an investigation by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on Nov. 13, 2018, United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Deshawn Trent to a term of imprisonment of 81 months, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Trent pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that an Arnaudville man was sentenced to 90 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Wright State University’s Board of Trustees has accepted responsibility for visa fraud offenses on behalf of the university and agreed to pay the federal government $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A convicted fraudster who had been on the run since early November was arrested this morning as he exited a hotel in Charlotte, N.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: HELENA-U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme announced today that Katherine Marie Krieger, a Helena resident, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison, three years supervised release and ordered to pay $236,924.17 restitution for stealing a person’s personal identity and using it to embezzle money from an investment account.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Burlington, New Jersey, man was arrested Friday for his role in a telemedicine scheme to prescribe expensive compounded medications to patients who did not need them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Fulton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally manufacturing a firearm suppressor, or “silencer," and illegally possessing firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition after making threats toward state workers involved in the case in which he lost custody of his children.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman sentenced 28-year-old Austin resident Tyler Carlson to 70 months imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release for his role in a firearms smuggling scheme involving machineguns and assault weapons, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Former Employee and husband schemed to steal government funding designed to assist low-income residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Senior Vice President at Bank of America and her husband were sentenced in federal court in Boston for embezzling more than $2.7 million from the bank using fraudulent donations to non-profit organizations.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who is expected to become Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee in the 116th Congress, today sent a letter to Joe Balash, the Department of the Interior (DOI) assistant secretary for land and minerals management, requesting all...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Did Not Report Any of the Stolen Money as Income on His Individual Tax Returns, Resulting in More Than $2.3 Million in Taxes Owed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United We Stand: Honoring the Core Values of Our Veterans in Our Everyday Civic Discourse.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Defendants Admit Trafficking Crystal Ice Methamphetamine and Other Drugs into Virginia from Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Jace Faugno, 23, of St. Louis, Missouri, has been charged with knowingly distributing videos depicting child pornography, Steven D. Weinhoeft, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. The two-count indictment alleges that the offenses occurred in St. Clair County, Illinois, on or about Sept. 30, and October 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jesse Lane, 25, of Ellisville, Alabama, was sentenced today for his participation in stealing firearms and possessing stolen firearms. He pled guilty to the two charges in federal court during July of 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Versailles, France-A convocation of delegates representing 60 countries voted today in Versailles to implement the most significant change to the International System of Units (SI) in more than 130 years. For the first time, all measurement units will be defined by natural phenomena rather than by physical artifacts. The event was the 26th General Conference of Weights and Measures and was hosted by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
