News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Alfredo Veloso, 43, of Miami, today admitted to opening bank accounts, and to recruiting others to open bank accounts, as a conduit for stolen funds in connection with a wide-ranging international money laundering operation for business email compromise and other cyber-schemes. Veloso also admitted to selling reptiles without a license, in violation of the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Jordanian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Bring Aliens into the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: OSHA cited the Merced, California-based manufacturer of polyethylene storage tanks for 10 serious and two willful violations for exposing employees to fall hazards, as well as failing to inspect cranes, provide employees with forklift training, and implement lockout/tagout procedures to prevent amputations. Six of the violations are covered under OSHA’s National Emphasis Program on Amputations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of six men are now in custody following the return of a 41-count indictment alleging a cocaine and marijuana trafficking conspiracy, conspiracy to commit money laundering and 39 substantive drug and money laundering violations announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Moayad Heider Mohammad Aldairi, 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring aliens to the United States and a related charge for his role in a scheme to smuggle Yemeni aliens through Mexico to the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today the availability of a new web-based tool - developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin - to help dairy producers evaluate various scenarios using different coverage levels through the new Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Martin Tesher, a former family medical doctor, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 20 years’ imprisonment for nine counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone without a legitimate medical purpose and one count of unlawful distribution of oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today, DANNIE SIMON PARKER, JR., 48, of Raleigh, North Carolina was convicted in federal court following a two-day trial before United States District Judge James C. Dever, III. The jury found PARKER guilty of Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 2374, the Stop Significant and Time-wasting Abuse Limiting Legitimate Innovation of New Generics Act (Stop STALLING Act)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing methamphetamine from California to Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to posing as a lawyer in order to defraud numerous car accident victims who were members of immigrant communities in Northern Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Boston of laundering close to $1 million in fraudulently-obtained IRS refund checks using 11 different bank accounts at five different banks.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - With summer camping season just around the corner, the Bureau of Land Management has announced that Trinity River campgrounds along California State Highway 299 will open Wednesday, May 22.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congressman Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: On May 4, 2019 at 2 p.m. join the National Park Service in celebrating the Midwest Archeological Center’s 50th Anniversary with a program on archeology and Homestead National Monument of America. There will be several speakers discussing how archeology is used in parks and what has been found at Homestead...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Friday, April 26, 2019, in federal court in Boston to sexually assaulting a minor during a cruise from Boston to Bermuda.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Electronic device manufacturers should find it less time-consuming to bring their wares to both the U.S. and international markets as a result of new requirements issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which has updated the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for testing the effectiveness of a device’s data encryption.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WACO, TX-The San Antonio Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-Waco Resident Agency Office (RA) and the Falls County Sheriff’s Office are conducting a joint investigation into a bank robbery which occurred this afternoon, April 30, 2019, in Marlin, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania honored seven individuals and a task force for their exceptional service to victims of crime during the annual Victim Advocate Recognition Ceremony in the Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse on Friday, April 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced on April 29, 2019, to more than three years in federal prison.
