News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Brian Louis, 55, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 92 months in federal prison, for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Louis pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 20, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Orleans investment adviser pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to defrauding her clients of more than $3 million and using those funds for her own expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin in Alaska.
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 Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 322 parcels, totaling nearly 180,366 acres in Beaverhead, Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Madison, Musselshell, Powder River, Richland...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP - A federal court in Central Islip, New York, entered a temporary injunction yesterday against 15 individuals and corporations allegedly responsible for operating three international mail fraud schemes, the Department of Justice announced. The Department of Justice alleges that, in 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Nov. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio yesterday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 43-year-old citizen of Mexico Hector Aguilar-Portugal to ten years imprisonment for his role in an illegal alien smuggling operation that resulted in death, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden; and, U.S. Border Patrol Agent in Charge Felix Chavez, Del Rio Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY VITO, 28, formerly of Stoughton, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for serving as the getaway driver for an armed bank robbery and two commercial robberies in December 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site held its annual food drive last week, a tradition that has delivered more than 1.8 million pounds of food to people in need since its inception in 1989.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Naun Romero, of Honduras, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a reentry charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAQUILLE RICHARDSON, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 117 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for robbery and firearm offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: We will not be publishing an EM Update newsletter on Tuesday, Nov. 27. We will return to our regular publishing schedule on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Happy Thanksgiving!.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that IVAN NIEVES has been charged with vandalism and disorderly conduct. NIEVES was arrested this morning and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman in Manhattan later this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JOHN MICKEY HARRIS, JR., 30, of Wilmington, North Carolina to 120 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A federal judge sentenced two men today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to brandish a firearm during a Dec. 26, 2017, carjacking, and for firing at a Tulsa police officer during the resulting pursuit, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Amon Foods Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A nurse from Edmond, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay the United States $130,000 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role a scheme to embezzle more than $2.7 million from Bank of America using fraudulent donations to non-profit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the arrest and extradition of IGOR VOROTINOV, 54. The defendant made his initial appearance on Nov. 19, 2018, before United States Magistrate Judge Kate Menendez, in U.S. District Court, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. IGOR VOROTINOV was federally...
