News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for conspiring with three others to sell heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Quentin P. Bruguier, Jr., a/k/a “JB," of Lake Andes, South Dakota, was convicted by a federal jury of fifteen counts of sexual abuse offenses involving children, fear, and force. The jury returned the verdict on Nov. 16, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service has announced the fee free days for 2019. On these days, the public is invited to experience all national park units, including Mesa Verde National Park, without entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Quentin P. Bruguier, Jr., a/k/a “JB," of Lake Andes, South Dakota, was convicted by a federal jury of fifteen counts of sexual abuse offenses involving children, fear, and force. The jury returned the verdict on Nov. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Craig Harry Lipinski (50, Jacksonville) to eight years and one month in federal prison for knowingly receiving images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children from the internet. Lipinski was also sentenced to serve a seven-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to her role in a widespread heroin and fentanyl conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Berlin, MD- The National Park Service has completed its November 2018 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island. The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 78 horses, including 21 stallions and 57 mares. Two aged mares, N6BKO “Samantha" and M17JP “Sierra" are missing and presumed dead. The fourth foal of the year, filly N2BHS-JQ, was born in mid-November to N2BHS-J “Shasta".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Searcy E. Fields pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Valerie A. Nickerson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced two Hunterdon County, New Jersey, women were sentenced today to federal prison terms for their respective roles in an oxycodone distribution conspiracy in Flemington, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Foster City, California, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Michael Wood, 54, and Mary Wood, 46, of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, were sentenced yesterday in federal court to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $46,320 in restitution to the victim in this case. A jury convicted both defendants of harboring an alien for financial gain and conspiracy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A federal court in Central Islip, New York entered a temporary injunction today against individuals and corporations allegedly responsible for operating three international mail fraud schemes, the Department of Justice announced. These cases are part of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A Venezuelan billionaire who owns Globovision news network was charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for his role in a billion-dollar currency exchange and money laundering scheme. A former Venezuelan national treasurer and a former owner of Banco Peravia bank in the Dominican Republic each pleaded guilty in proceedings unsealed today for their roles in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A resident of Hyattsville, Maryland was sentenced to serve 90 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his participation in the racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A resident of Albuquerque has been convicted on federal dog fighting charges, stemming from a case brought by federal authorities in the U.S. District Court in the District of New Mexico. Robert Arellano, 65, pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2018, in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, to three felony ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a Statement of Interest in U.S. District Court in South Carolina supporting a church’s claim that the Town of Edisto Beach violated its rights under the First Amendment when the town barred it from renting space at the Town’s Civic Center. "The Constitution protects ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A South Florida doctor residing in Hobe Sound, Florida, pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, wire fraud, and Social Security disability fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a gang member were sentenced today for being accessories-after-the-fact to racketeering murder, announced Assistant Attorney General Bryan A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based doctor pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to receive approximately $336,000 in illegal health care kickback payments. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Fremin of the Middle ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection and the Federal Reserve Board today jointly proposed amendments to Regulation CC that would implement a statutory requirement to adjust for inflation the amount of funds depository institutions must make available to their customers. The ...
