News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Dean Phillips Named Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant Assaulted and Threatened Teen Entrepreneur for Operating a Competing Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a DeRidder man was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison for possessing child pornography after previously being convicted of that same crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Two former commodities traders of a New York, New York-based financial services firm have pleaded guilty for their participation in a $60 million commodities fraud and spoofing conspiracy that was perpetrated through the U.S. commodities markets. One of the traders also pleaded guilty for his participation in a second commodities fraud and spoofing conspiracy at another financial services firm based in Chicago, Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Nishitkumar Patel (31, Tampa), Hemalkumar Shah (27, Tampa), and Sharvil Patel (22, Tampa) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and extortion, and substantive counts of wire fraud and extortion. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: NOV. 6, 2018 - A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that children tend to have higher levels of school engagement when involved in one or more activities, like sports, lessons or clubs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ricky Evans, a/k/a Dorsey, and Shawn Thomas, a/k/a Bucky, both age 38, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on November 5, 2018, to the federal charge of participating in a racketeering conspiracy, as leaders in the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Needs Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Late last year, Akayed Ullah detonated a bomb during the bustle of morning rush hour under the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Ullah’s sinister purpose was to harm and terrorize as many innocent people in his path as possible, by using deadly violence to make a political...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict today against AKAYED ULLAH in Manhattan federal court on all six counts of the Indictment, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Treveon Montrell Vaughn, 27, of Tulsa, pleaded guilty today to obstructing commerce by robbery and to brandishing a firearm during six different robberies at local donut and Dollar General stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Glenn Heights, Texas, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing 650 firearms from United Parcel Service trailers in Springfield, Mo., en route to Bass Pro Shops.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - November 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Update: FBI Richmond’s Central Virginia Violent Crimes Task Force Increases Reward Offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Jason Anthony Martinez (38, Tampa) to an additional three months’ imprisonment for a total of 27 months’ imprisonment for lying to the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Financial Litigation Unit and U.S. Probation to avoid his restitution obligation. In addition, he was sentenced to an additional two years of supervised release, extending his post-incarceration supervision to a total of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former precious metals trader at a United States bank (Bank) pleaded guilty in a proceeding unsealed yesterday to commodities fraud and a spoofing conspiracy in connection with his participation in fraudulent and deceptive trading activity in the precious metals futures contracts markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Omar Jaber, 31, of St. John, Missouri was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment to be followed by three years supervised release and $197,213 in restitution to the IRS. Jaber admitted to stealing government funds while a tax preparer for Rapid Tax Service in St. Louis during 2015 and 2016. Jaber pleaded guilty on May 7, 2018 and appeared for sentencing in St. Louis today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Great Capacon, West Virginia man was indicted today on a failure to register as a sex offender charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Roslindale man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine distribution operation on the South Shore.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Monday to carrying a gun during a robbery of a man who was going to meet with a prostitute, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
