News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of SCOTT FRANCIS FORTIER, 39, to 25 years in prison for producing and possessing video files containing child pornography. FORTIER, who was convicted by a federal jury on Jan. 25, 2018, on one count of production of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP"), announced today...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Grants for Research on Prisoners of War Offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Iranian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Illegally Export Products From the United States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two employees of SK Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (SK), a large multinational corporation based in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), were charged today with participating in a scheme to defraud the United States by submitting fraudulent subcontracts to conceal bribes and kickbacks paid to an American public official, in relation to U.S. Army construction contracts in South Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and DEA New York Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, ICE Homeland Security Investigations New York Field Office Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that six Philadelphia women, several of whom are sisters and cousins, have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for their role in a scheme to defraud the United States through the filing of false claims for tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Two men from Northwest Ohio were indicted on federal firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nathaniel Drow, 32, Wausau, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. Drow pleaded guilty to this charge on September 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell sentenced Loren Wauneka, 37, of Fort Defiance, Ariz., to 137 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for voluntary manslaughter, and Lisa Benally, 39 of Fort Defiance, Ariz., to 97 months’ imprisonment followed by three...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Marvin David Ramirez, 45, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was sentenced to prison in federal court yesterday. Ramirez pled guilty in June of this year to conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a staged automobile accident ring that operated at Primary Rehab Center in Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Okechuwku Desmond Amadi (39, Garland, TX) guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and individual counts of money laundering. Amadi faces a maximum penalty of 60 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former Narragansett, RI, police officer pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to a charge of transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Harold H. Shaw, and Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town appointed to serve on the Justice Department’s China Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Daniel Davis, 41, a former Major at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found guilty by a jury today in federal court for beating an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting. In a previous trial in January, Major Davis was convicted of conspiring with other officers...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.6 billion in 46 rural electric utility infrastructure projects to improve electric reliability and resilience in 24 states.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a total of $1,272,320 across two universities to develop new solutions to improve the capability of organizations to understand and improve their cybersecurity control investment decisions.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Because of their antimicrobial and antifungal properties, silver nanoparticles measuring between one and 100 nanometers (billionth of a meter) in size, are being incorporated outside the United States into a variety of kitchen products known as food contact materials (FCMs). Among the nanosilver-infused...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury Wednesday convicted a Marshall County man for distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E, Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that GEORGE DOUMANIS and EMANUEL PANTELAKIS were sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 53 months and one year and one day in prison, respectively, for defrauding investors in Terminus Energy, Inc....
