News from September 2018
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 Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: • The Shuttering of a Mission (Brainerd Mission Cemetery, off Brainerd Road in Chattanooga, TN): Beginning at 10 am, this 45 minute program will focus on Brainerd Mission’s connection with the Cherokee and its closure as a result of Indian Removal. The Reverend Daniel Buttrick, a missionary at Brainerd...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: PARK CITY, Utah. -- The Bureau of Land Management presented its 2018 Rangeland Stewardship Awards today, which are given in recognition of an individual or group’s commitment to the health and productivity of public rangelands under BLM management. This year’s recipients include a New Mexico couple who...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, U.S. Representatives Robert A. Brady (D-PA) and Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), co-Chairs of the Congressional Task Force on Election Security, issued the following statement after the Voting Machine Hacking Village at DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, released a report demonstrating the serious vulnerabilities to our nation’s voting systems...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: A Mississippi-based nurse practitioner and former owner of a family health clinic was sentenced to 42 months in prison today for her role in a scheme to defraud health care benefit programs including TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans and their respective family members.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN-- After years of study, public engagement, and planning, the first wolves in a National Park Service (NPS) wolf translocation project to restore predation to the island ecosystem have been moved to Isle Royale National Park from the Grand Portage Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Two Miami, FL residents and a resident of Philadelphia, PA have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger today sentenced Ronald Andrews (34, Jacksonville) to 14 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Andrews pleaded guilty on May 10, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Brian J. Stone, 60, of Sacramento, to six years in prison and to pay over $243,000 in restitution and a $12,500 fine for his convictions on 13 counts of wire and mail fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. After sentencing, Stone was remanded into custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Goyko “Batzi" Kuburovich convicted of multiple fraud crimes related to his personal bankruptcy filing; his daughter, Kristel Kuburovich, also convicted of a bankruptcy offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 49-year old Frederick Lona of Monrovia, California, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Former engineering professor diverted concrete and soil test payments for his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Bowling Green, Kentucky professor has pleaded guilty to defrauding Western Kentucky University, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that a new subpoena has been issued as part of the continuing Republican investigation into the actions of the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ):
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Drexel, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing the U.S. Bank inside Truman Medical Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jimmie Terrell Harrison, 43, of Forest, pleaded guilty yesterday, before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Buffalo, NY, has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Four people have been charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in southern Illinois, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Scott A. Carnell, 36, of Pacific, Missouri, Jarrett C. Hood, 36, of Walsh, Illinois, Kayla S. Kempfer, 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 27, 2018, Ogleva Charles Mowell, of LaFollette, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 70 months in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. Following his release from prison, Mowell will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years and required to register with the sex offender registry in any state in which he resides, works, or attends school.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Senior U.S. District Judge Robert C. Brack sentenced Sophia Monique Zayas, 36, this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 15 years of imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for her conviction on a child abuse resulting in great bodily harm charge. Sophia...
