News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M.: Today, the Bureau of Land Management successfully auctioned three grazing units within the McGregor Range in southern New Mexico. The bids ranged from $35.50 to $62 per Animal Unit Month (AUM), yielding $295,251.50 for the McGregor Range management and improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Bridget Lambert, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Eastern District of Louisiana to one count of a forced labor conspiracy for conspiring with members of her family to obtain forced labor from D.P., a woman with cognitive disabilities.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, the House passed sweeping, bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid crisis. H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), now heads to the Senate for a final vote and then to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom sentenced Scott Louis Craven to 48 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of Supervised Release this week for distribution of obscene material to a person he believed to be a 15-year-old girl, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. Craven will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sentient Science Corporation, a Buffalo, NY, based research and technology corporation, has agreed to pay the United States $2,675,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A North Adams man was charged in federal court in Springfield yesterday with child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A North Las Vegas man who kidnapped a girl in Bullhead City, Arizona, then repeatedly sexually assaulted her at his house in North Las Vegas where he held her hostage for approximately one month, had his initial court appearance today, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Nicholasville, Ky., men were sentenced today for using social media to harass and intimidate an acquaintance, with threats of a prospective shooting at a Jessamine County school.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EZRA CHOWAIKI was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an elaborate scheme to defraud art dealers and collectors of millions of dollars. CHOWAIKI fleeced his victims by entering into fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL WRIGHT pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to his participation in a scheme to defraud investors who invested millions of dollars based on false representations that their funds would be used to purchase tickets to various live events for re-sale at a profit on the secondary market. WRIGHT pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SCRONIC, the former manager of the Scronic Macro Fund (the “Fund"), was sentenced to 96 months in prison today in connection with his scheme to defraud the Fund’s 45 investors of more than $22 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment today against Miguel Alverez Cervantes, 53, Maria Cervantes-Echevarria, 34, and Marta Jiminez Lopez, 26, all Mexican nationals living in Los Molinos, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possessing...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) offered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider Gail Ennis to be Social Security Administration (SSA) Inspector General and Gordon Hartogensis to be Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for robbing a North Side bank at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Center Point man on multiple counts of producing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jay Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 18, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned 16 indictments against 64 defendants charging them with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: GREEN BAY, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited JBS Green Bay Inc. for machine guarding violations that led to an employee suffering serious injuries after becoming caught in an unguarded machine. OSHA cited the company - based in Green Bay, Wisconsin - for one willful and 10 serious violations, and faces proposed penalties of $221,726, which includes the maximum penalty for the willful violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former Alabama legislator to nearly three years in prison for accepting bribes from a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive to advocate their employers’ opposition to EPA actions in north Birmingham. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman announced the plea.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking applications from individuals and groups interested in performing at the National Christmas Tree throughout December on the Ellipse in President’s Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A former Allen County, Kentucky, accountant was sentenced by United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers to 24 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $766,349.59, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
