News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Oct. 12, 2018, PASCUAL RODRIGUEZ, 50, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in New York, New York, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to one count of kidnapping.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Bureau of Reclamation is conducting an Environmental Assessment (EA) regarding the potential environmental effects of constructing and operating three wells to pump water from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer into Falls Irrigation District’s existing canal distribution system. The project area is located in southeast Idaho near American Falls, approximately 22 miles southwest of Pocatello, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that, on Oct. 11, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging CHRISTOPHER J. SAKELARAKIS, 34, of Milford, with fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded an elderly victim of $60,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Hazel Turner, 44, of Tehachapi, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The leader of a conspiracy that created and filled fraudulent prescriptions for approximately 21,000 opioid pills using stolen medical practitioner identification numbers and identities, and, at times, unlawfully paid for the prescriptions with the use of medical insurance, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Riverside, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for sharing child pornography over the internet.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: It’s time for Howling Homestead at Homestead National Monument of America! This exciting, fun, and family-friendly event will be held at the Heritage Center on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, from 6:00 until 9 p.m. We will provide a variety of stations to entertain and delight, Join us to learn about the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph Hamilton, 30, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal grand jury has indicted South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi, charging him with distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need. He was also charged with health care fraud related to the submission of false and fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 22 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a well-known Salem restaurant, King’s Roast Beef Inc., was sentenced today for failing to report or pay taxes on nearly $1.5 million in income from the business.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to the Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research, the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program contributed more than $12.2 billion in output in terms of goods and services to the U.S. economy and added $6.2 billion in gross domestic product in Fiscal Year 2017. The program is administered by the National Park Service and the Internal Revenue Service, in partnership with State Historic Preservation Offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - James A. Wolfe, 57, of Ellicott City, Maryland, a former staff employee of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), pleaded guilty today to one count of making a false statement to special agents of the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified national security information.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal district court jury convicted Nathan E. Hardwick IV of twenty-one counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of making false statements to a federally insured financial institution on Oct. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Seven Defendants Have Pleaded Guilty in the Case Related to the Drug Turf Battle that Resulted in the Shooting Death of Three-Year-Old McKenzie Elliott.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jamie Akerson, 57, of Newport, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 160 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. The defendant pled guilty on April 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today that Kenneth L. Nickerson, 53, of Ludington, Michigan, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for threatening to assault a Social Security Administration employee. U.S District Judge Janet T. Neff imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a bank in Leawood, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Indal Technologies Agrees to Pay $3.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Colton Grubbs, 21, of Stanford, Kentucky, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Joseph M. Hood, for conspiracy to unlawfully access computers in furtherance of a criminal act, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and the illegal removal of property to prevent its lawful seizure.
