News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Jose R. Almonte-Tejeda, 40, formerly of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for possessing over 500 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Payments Are the Third Distribution in a Series of Payments That Together Will Constitute the Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme announced today that Michael Christopher Laird, 26, of California, was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison and five years supervised release for conviction on methamphetamine charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released new documents directly contradicting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his Administration’s response to the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands was “unbelievable," “amazing," and “incredible."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Tis the season for cookies and creativity!
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in St. Louis indicted four St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) Police Officers for their conduct in connection with the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during last year’s protests following the acquittal of a former SLMPD officer of a first-degree murder charge brought by the State of Missouri relating to the shooting death of a civilian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Arlington, Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the United Kingdom announced plans to introduce a new tax on digital services...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal judge sentenced Billings resident Nichole Renee Waldhalm today to five years in prison and five years supervised release for her conviction in a conspiracy that brought meth from California to the Billings area for distribution, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CEDRIC LAMONT BERRY, JR, a/k/a “Ced," 24, to 71 months in federal prison. BERRY was sentenced on Nov. 28, 2018, by Senior Judge Ann D. Montgomery, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. BERRY pleaded guilty on July 19, 2018, to one count of felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LOUIS GOLDBERG, 71, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven for his role in a tax avoidance scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 291 parcels, totaling nearly 604,164 acres in Lincoln, Nye and White Pine counties at its March 2019 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This notice initiates a public notice period on associated environmental documents that ends on Jan. 2, 2019. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Pernell Jackson, 56, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of making materially false statements in a matter involving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of seven years and three months, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction of bank robbery and armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Patrick Sutherland, age 29, of Roselle, New Jersey, was sentenced on Nov. 27, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 46 months’ imprisonment for bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today, in a 103-count superseding indictment, charged a Fultondale doctor with conspiracy to prescribe controlled substances and participating in a healthcare fraud conspiracy with a Demopolis pharmacist and a Tuscaloosa sales representative, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Wolf Point woman convicted of trafficking methamphetamine on the Fort Peck Reservation was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months in prison and four years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alejandro Olvera-Servin, age 38, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (163 days in jail) for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced HENRY ALLEN FOWLER, age 52, of Florida, to 24 months in federal prison following his conviction for failing to register in Louisiana as a sex offender. The Court also sentenced FOWLER to five years of supervised release following imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SENTENCING -Anthony Turner, 26, Xavier Ross, 26 & Afraybeom Jackson, 28.
