News from October 2018
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated the National Emphasis Program (NEP) on preventing trenching and excavation collapses in response to a recent spike in trenching fatalities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Zachary Morneault, 34, of Levant, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to make false statements to a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 31-year-old Chimene Hamilton Onyeri to life in federal prison for his leadership role in carrying out fraud and racketeering schemes that involved the attempted capital murder of State District Court Judge Julie Kocurek in November of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that five Anchorage residents have been indicted on federal kidnapping and drug trafficking charges, among other offenses, in connection with the August 2017 beating and placing of a victim into a dog kennel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of PRESTON ELLARD FORTHUN, 40, and ADAM JOHN BURKE, 34, for their roles in two separate multi-million dollar insurance fraud conspiracies. FORTHUN was sentenced to 60 months in prison and BURKE was sentenced to 90 months in prison. Both defendants were found guilty last year following separate jury trials before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of PRESTON ELLARD FORTHUN, 40, and ADAM JOHN BURKE, 34, for their roles in two separate multi-million dollar insurance fraud conspiracies. FORTHUN was sentenced to 60 months in prison and BURKE was sentenced to 90 months in prison. Both defendants were found guilty last year following separate jury trials before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former lieutenant with the Edcouch Police Department (EPD) has been ordered to federal prison for drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Vicente Salinas, 43, of Elsa, pleaded guilty Dec. 5, 2016, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nomination of Andrew Saul to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban psychologist has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare and private insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nineteen people have been arrested and one is being sought on federal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation into a drug trafficking network that distributed heroin, crack cocaine, cocaine, PCP, and suboxone in the Washington, D.C. area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Mark Simms, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant Stole Credit Cards, Rang Up Thousands of Dollars in Purchases.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. The WEA portion of the test, which will be sent to consumer cell phones, will begin at 2:18 p.m. EDT. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: ATHENS: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Patrick O’Neal Kennedy, age 42, of Athens, Georgia, pled guilty on Oct. 2, 2018 to Distribution of Cocaine Base before U.S. District Court Judge Hugh Lawson in Athens, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Aundra Deon Holmes, age 38, of Texarkana, was sentenced today to 130 months on one count of Distribution of Cocaine Base, and a consecutive 15 months for violating the conditions of his...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981, Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Benjamin J. Katz (619) 546-9604.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day imprisonment, $672,387.67 in restitution and three years of supervised release on his conviction of mail fraud and tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant, a convicted drug felon from California, was caught in possession of roughly a pound of methamphetamine, several firearms, and over $30,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: $577,248 to Fund Threat Assessment and Technology Reporting, Mental Health Training Programs in Middle District of Florida.
