News from November 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement following Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) announcement that he is pursuing the Finance Committee chairman position for the 116th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today two additional sentencings originating from a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy investigated and prosecuted on St. Croix. Yesterday, District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson sentenced Luis Antonio Rijos-Santana, age 51...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on Nov. 15, 2018, United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Lafi Jafari, age 74, of Omaha, Nebraska, to a term of one year probation and a fine of $20,000 following his felony conviction for making a false statement to federal investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: BOISE - David Hansen, 47, formerly of Idaho Falls, was indicted yesterday, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise on 17 counts of wire fraud and six counts of tax fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act (CISA) being signed into law. Ranking Member Thompson was an original co-sponsor of H.R. 3359.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge for the Atlanta Field Division, Robert Murphy, announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Talih Rik Anthony Reeves, 36, of Wilmington, N.C., to 190 months imprisonment, followed by 48 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: A doctor convicted of falsifying medical safety examinations for commercial drivers has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the release by Secretary DeVos of proposed campus sexual assault regulations that would significantly weaken...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that John Miller Ragland (age: 71) formerly of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin has been charged in an indictment with four counts of tax evasion. Specifically, the indictment charges that Mr. Ragland under-reported his income during the years 2010 - 2013 by more than $2.6 million and, thereby, attempted to evade more than $750,000 in federal income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today the Honorable Christopher C. Conner sentenced Mason David Powell, age 30, a resident of Biglerville, Pennsylvania to 40 years in federal prison following a three hour sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging DARWIN LEE LUSSIER, SR., 52, with assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. LUSSIER was previously charged on Oct. 30, 2018, via federal complaint.[1] LUSSIER made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court on Oct. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS M. MURTHA, 62, of Birmingham, Michigan and formerly of Newtown, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing nearly $2 million from clients, friends and family members.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today the Honorable Christopher C. Conner sentenced Mason David Powell, age 30, a resident of Biglerville, Pennsylvania to 40 years in federal prison following a three hour sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Paul Kozlyuk, 32, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of aiding and abetting the unlawful transfer, possession, and use of identification documents, authentication features, and information, was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to. The defendant was also ordered to pay more than $95,000 in restitution to victim businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 18 months, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release on his conviction on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Nov. 13, 2018, TALVIN HINTON, 42, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court to one count of distribution of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WISDOM, MT - Big Hole National Battlefield would like to wish you and your family a Happy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Philpot, a 10-time convicted felon, was sentenced to federal prison for the armed robbery of a Waffle House and assault on police officers, whom he led on a high-speed chase and shot at after the robbery.
