News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence, Massachusetts, man was sentenced in federal court in Boston yesterday for his role in an opioid trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of fentanyl, heroin, and oxycodone across Massachusetts and Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York stock trader today admitted making bribe payments to a broker at an investment banking firm in exchange for stock allocations, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant fraudulently spent over 34,000 dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to subpoena the Department of Veterans Affairs for documents it is withholding about reports that Mar-a-Lago members Bruce Moskowitz, Ike Perlmutter, and Marc Sherman were influencing Department personnel and policy decisions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Carried a Firearm and Used His Social Media Account to Sell Illegal Wares.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Senior Judge Daniel R. Domínguez sentenced Yaira Tanies Cotto-Flores to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: On Wednesday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold a hearing on "Examining First Amendment Rights on Campus." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Lawrence W. LaFlower, 42 years old, of Valparaiso, Indiana, has been charged with one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has been selected to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Focus City grant for the 2018-2019 school year from the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox today announced the appointment of five new Assistant United States Attorneys: Stephen Rancourt, assigned to the Lubbock Criminal Division; Melanie Smith, assigned to the Dallas Criminal Division’s Violent and Major Crimes Section; Damien Diggs, also assigned to the Dallas...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced grant awards to Public Safety Partnership member sites as part of $10 million in funding to support state, local and tribal law enforcement departments and agencies and their partners who are fighting violent crime in jurisdictions across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three men were charged today in connection with their respective roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with the murder of an individual aboard a fishing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: On Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, joined with Vietnam Customs Anti-Smuggling and Investigation Department (ASID) and multiple brand representatives to witness the destruction of 13.2 tons of counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization National Vice President John Xavier Portillo to two consecutive life sentences, plus twenty years, in federal prison for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Six Paterson, New Jersey, men have been charged with taking part in a scheme to break into U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail collection boxes throughout northern New Jersey and steal the mail-particularly, checks-inside, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management will begin upgrading the Oh Be Joyful Campground, located about five miles east of Crested Butte, along County Road 734 this fall.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: LEE VINING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office, Friends of the Inyo and the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership will be hosting a volunteer stewardship event on National Public Lands Day, Saturday, Sept. 29, starting at 8:30 a.m. Volunteers will be removing nearly an acre of trash from public lands in Rattlesnake Gulch, near the historic Conway Ranch in the southern part of the Bodie Hills.
