News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of CHELSEA MARIE DESERLY, 30, to 42 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter resulting from a drunk driving crash. DESERLY, who pleaded guilty on May 3, 2018, to one count of involuntary manslaughter, was sentenced today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KAMIL GOLEBIOWSKI, 27, of Shelton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of distribution of alprazolam, also known as Xanax.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Guadalupe Mountains National Park is partnering with the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) for their Cave Fossils exhibition Oct. 27, 2018 - Feb. 1, 2019. The exhibition will feature an NPS exhibit Cave Paleontology and cave fossil specimens from the Smithsonian...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Adam Joshua Hanshew on October 9, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 146 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21 USC § 841(a)(1). The defendant previously plead guilty to the offense on June 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 46 months in prison for embezzling millions of dollars from a New York-based hospitality company where he was the chief operating officer, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Repeated Assaults of Intimate Partners Prompts Use of Statute Designed to Protect Native Women.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns in nine locations this winter. The specific locations of the pile burns are listed below.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who was involved in a hit-and-run accident before leading police on a car chase that ended when he crashed into a pole and another vehicle, pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sergio Ramses Mucino, 44, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to tax evasion and conspiracy to unlawfully employ more than ten aliens during any 12-month period. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We are deeply alarmed by the news reports about, and the leaked draft of, the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") potential proposed regulations governing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX"), a law that is critical in ensuring equal opportunity in...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After a recent multiagency intellectual property rights investigation resulted in federal convictions of two Rhode Island men on counterfeit goods trafficking charges and the seizure of more than $500,000 worth of counterfeit goods, special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Three farmers from Nebraska who grew grain that was not organic but who knew that the grain was being marketed and sold as organic pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was charged yesterday in connection with the August 2018 computer intrusion of a Massachusetts company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Martin Hall, age 56, of Reisterstown, Maryland, today to 25 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for traveling from the United States to the Philippines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, and for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: Jeffrey White, 60, and Nicholas White, 33, both of Twin Peaks, California, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to conspiring to defraud Affordable Care Act programs in at least 12 states of more than $27 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for masterminding a fraudulent scheme that exploited the identities of at least 124 victims and caused over $870,000 in losses in less than two years.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating public scoping for multiple fuels treatments and forest health projects within the Rock Springs Field Office. The projects cover a large area from Little Mountain to the Wind River Front. The BLM is analyzing the projects as part of our ongoing commitment to keep public lands healthy and accessible by improving forest health and sagebrush habitat, and minimizing the threat of catastrophic wildfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: A father and son from Mahoning County were indicted on firearms charges after the son allegedly gave a firearm to his father, who was previously convicted of rape, kidnapping, attempted murder and other crimes, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted a New Jersey public school teacher for conspiring to defraud the N.J. School Employees’ Health Benefits Program (SEHBP) with phony claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
