News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: The former managing director and vice chairman of a Swiss bank was sentenced to 10 years in prison today, after previously pleading guilty for his role in a billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles Marquis Mitchell, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft programmatic environmental assessment (EA) for continuation of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Temporary Excess Capacity Program and the issuance of two 40-year excess capacity contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON SPENCE, also known as “Spun," 30, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - On Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 a federal jury in San Diego, California, found Isaiah Smallwood-Jackson guilty of production of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and enticement of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), announced United States Attorney Adam Braverman. The convictions trigger mandatory minimum sentences of 15 and 10 years, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: RICO indictment alleges the street gang operates as a criminal enterprise engaged in violent crimes such as attempted murders, felony assaults and federal firearms offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salvadoran man previously convicted for sexually assaulting a child was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for failing to register as a sex offender after unlawfully returning to the United States and traveling to New Jersey. The sentencing follows a multiagency investigation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Xanthe Lam, Allen Lam, John Chan, and James Quach for stealing trade secrets from Genentech and related charges, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The indictment, handed down on Oct. 25, 2018...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the designation of the A.P. Tureaud, Sr. Home as the fifth historic site within the African American Civil Rights Network. Secretary Zinke was joined by the family of Alexander Pierre (A.P.) Tureaud, Sr. A.P. Tureaud made major contributions to advancing the goals of the African-American Civil Rights Movement as a preeminent civil rights attorney in Louisiana.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Building on the Administration’s commitment to improving the resiliency, reliability, and security of the nation’s electricity delivery system, the Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the upcoming publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) introducing administrative...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ladaireus Jones, 25, of Bakersfield, was sentenced by United States District Dale A. Drozd today to more than four and a half years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LESHANDA LONG, 37, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud and identity theft offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amy Bowlin, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 4 years probation for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet to discuss public land management topics at a meeting planned for December 11-12 in Phoenix.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Juan Mendez-Patishtan, a Mexican national, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for a reentry of a removed alien charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, Louis F. Petrossi, the founder and president of the Wealth Research Institute, a purported investment research firm, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Christopher C. Conner of the Middle District of Pennsylvania to 100 months and three days in prison for stealing investors’...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Responsible for Trafficking Nearly Ten Pounds of Meth in Northern Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Stuart M. Jameson, of Colorado Springs, Colorado pled guilty earlier in the month before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted two Tampa men for conspiracy to commit identity theft crimes announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jason Ehrhart, age 48, of Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, and Jason’s former wife, Laurie Ehrhart, age 48, of Newport, Pennsylvania, were charged with defrauding a disabled Veteran, the Veteran’s Administration, and the Social Security Administration out of $316,360.
