News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man was arrested today and charged in connection with a scheme to impersonate bank customers and fraudulently withdraw money from their bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Juan Carlos Perez, 36, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for distributing heroin. Perez pleaded guilty to this charge on May 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Fraudulently Billed Insurance Companies $5 Million for Services Never Performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOHN CLARENCE BRADLEY, 49, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 24 days of weekend jail confinement and five years of probation for defrauding Medicaid, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: It looks more like a long water main pipe than a microscope, but a new custom-built instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will give scientists new ability to glimpse moment-by-moment changes in materials on the crucial nanometer scale.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain was honored to speak last week at the Allentown Police Academy Graduation of the 102nd Police Training Class in Allentown, Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney McSwain’s remarks are below.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Judiciary Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in support of H.R. 6, the bipartisan opioid legislation released last night...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood; Defendant Faces 15 to 20 Year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vernon Poleahla, 34, an enrolled member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault and voluntary manslaughter charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Vale, Ore. -- On Oct. 1, the Vale District Bureau of Land Management will be lifting fire restrictions on all Vale BLM-administered lands, including Bureau of Reclamation lands. Fireworks, exploding targets, and incendiary and tracer ammunition are still prohibited on public lands. Cooler temperature trends, daytime burn periods becoming shorter, and with the overall fire danger decreasing, the risk has diminished enough to lift these restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Eagle Butte, South Dakota, men convicted of Larceny and Aiding and Abetting, and one man convicted of Misprision of a Felony have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: In Waco today, federal authorities filed charges against Temple, TX, couple Christopher Sebek, 55, and Melissa Sebek, 55, and Killeen, TX resident Jeffrey Pearson, 55, for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Department of Veterans Affairs of approximately $250,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG) Criminal Investigations Division Special Agent in Charge James Ross, South Central Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Two men from Northeast Ohio were indicted for crimes related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Luis Enrique Beltran-Beltran, 41, of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 120 months’ imprisonment. Beltran had previously pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to unlawfully export and aiding and abetting the unlawful possession of machine guns, grenades, and grenade launchers. Beltran had been extradited from Mexico to the United States in 2017.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised committee passage of their legislation to extend the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for another five years. PEPFAR was established in 2003 as an emergency response to alleviate the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, primarily on the continent of Africa.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Forest City Weingart Produce Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Members Targeted Walmart Stores Across the Country, Linked to Millions in Fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Today, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing to examine First Amendment rights on college campuses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Kenton Buddy Campbell (34, Lakeland) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Campbell to forfeit two firearms and ammunition. He had pleaded guilty on June 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Hammond - Robert Timothy Wilson, 55, and Shelly Wilson, 53, of Valparaiso, Indiana have been charged with conspiracy to commit tax evasion, tax evasion, and failure to file tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
