News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Corey Robert Clark Ford, of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antonio Travis Steward, 41, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, on numerous occasions that involved criminal activity in Anchorage.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Trump signed the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of THERESA ERNESTINE LINSMEIER, 59, to 27 months in prison for embezzling $540,000 from her former employer. LINSMEIER, who pleaded guilty on June 7, 2018, to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return, was sentenced earlier today before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Trenton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in north central Missouri.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: The road runs adjacent to the massive white turbines spinning at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Boulder, Colorado-a second campus of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-where Johnson is a mechanical engineer and principal investigator (PI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antonio Travis Steward, 41, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, on numerous occasions that involved criminal activity in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Emelita Ignacio Arindela, a/k/a “Esperanza Ignacio Arindela," “Esperanza Hooper," “Emily I. Arindela," and “Emily Ignacio Arindela," 43, of Mount Desert Island, Maine, and previously of the Philippines, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to time served (10 days) and one year of supervised release for passport fraud. Arindela pleaded guilty on April 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - A jury found Wally Irizarry-Sisco guilty of one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Martin Gasca-Rojas, 49, of Mexico, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison, for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Alena Aleykina, a former special agent for the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison for filing false tax returns, obstruction of justice, and stealing government money, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Principal Deputy Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Dominican nationals were arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with fentanyl trafficking in connection with the seizure of approximately 32 kilos of fentanyl with an alleged street value of $28.8 million. A firearm and $20,000 were also recovered.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that the last defendant in a Winn Parish methamphetamine distribution ring pleaded guilty Monday before he was scheduled to go to trial.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - On Oct. 18, government officials and local residents opened the doors to the new home for the American Museum of Science and Energy, which explores Oak Ridge’s legacy in environmental cleanup, scientific and technical innovation, and national security since the Secret City’s start in the Manhattan Project 75 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Brooklyn Resident Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding the IRS and Stealing Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Eye Centers of Florida has agreed to pay the United States $525,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly falsifying medical records in order to bill for cataract surgeries on patients that would not have otherwise qualified for the surgery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a thirteen-count indictment charging STEPHANIE CHAVIS, age 42, of Saint Pauls, North Carolina, with ten counts of Wire Fraud, two counts of Aggravated Identity Theft, and one count of Theft of Government Property.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showing that the public health emergency announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Edwin Pawlowski, the former Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today for his role in an extensive pay to play scheme occurring between 2012 and 2015. Chief United States District Judge Juan A.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after President Trump signed S. 3021, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, into law.
